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<blockquote data-quote="swing22hard" data-source="post: 5749" data-attributes="member: 846"><p>To answer your question about a year ago, I felt like crap & could hardly hold my fork up to my mouth to eat Christmas dinner. I wasn't impressed with my own doctor so I went to a well known Naturpath who did my blood work. When we got the blood work back she determined that my thyroid was off & my T was low & I was put on Trochies & Tapazole. Long story short of it is that I don't think she really knew what she was doing with the testosterone therapy & left me unmonitored. I had another blood test months later & my Total T was 1500 & I still felt like crap & had no energy. </p><p></p><p>So I started going to an Endo & he put me on shots, but I dont care for needles & my wife would pin me & hit a nerve in my leg once that was all it took to put me on gels. I am still fighting fatigue constantly when everyone tells me my labs look perfect, I know something is wrong & I think very strongly that its still my thyroid, but finding an Endo who treats symptoms & not just goes by ranges is near impossible to find. So here I am completely frustrated by all this shit I have been dealing with for over a year & not feeling any better. Brain fog, impaired vision are the worst symptoms & I have been to 3 different eye specialists who find nothing wrong with my eyes. I have seen 3 different psychiatrists because my own PCP said he thinks its all in my head & they said no there is no depression but I have alot of anxiety from trying to figure out what is going on with me & prescribed me a low dose of Klonopin to help with the anxiety. Meanwhile I just feel like crap, tired all the time. I am 47 years old 185 lbs & have no stress but autoimmune disease runs in my family history, my mom had RA & Grandmother died of Parkinsons. My wife said I just need to be patient & wait for the other shoe to drop to see what is going on with me. It's very tough just waiting, I was hoping the testosterone would help & I think it does with giving me the boost of energy but it has not fixed whatever is wrong, just gives me the energy to keep moving. I am or used to be very active, I played racquetball 2-3 days a week & went to the gym but now I just ride mountain bikes in the hills for my workouts which absolutely kicks my ass. </p><p></p><p>So I was getting frustrated & my old endo retired & I found a new one who ran labs on me they looked like this, I was dissapointed he didnt run a T3 with the other labs. So with that frustration I just said screw it & I dropped the T for one week which I thoroughly regret now.</p><p></p><p> These were taken 2 weeks ago.</p><p>Prolactin 5.47 (2.5-17.0)</p><p>Testosterone 319.0 (200-810 ng/dl)</p><p>SHBG 47.1 (13.7-71.0)</p><p>FAI 23.5 (14.8-94.8 nmol/L)</p><p>DHEA-SO4 173 (80-560 ug/dl)</p><p>Cortisol 14.70 (5.0-25.0 ug/dl)</p><p>ACTH 19.90 (0-46 pg/ml)</p><p></p><p>TSH 0.478 (0.4-4.5 uIU/ml)</p><p>T4, free 1.27 (0.8-1.8 ng/dL)</p><p>ATA/ATPO 11.10 <35.0 IU/ml)</p><p>ATG <20 (<20.0 IU/ML)</p><p></p><p>Here are my original labs back in 12/20/2012 when they prescribed tapazole & testosterone supplement. This is when I could barely function, I could hardly hold a fork up to my mouth & had absolutely no energy. This came on so fast & went from feeling 100% to 10% in a matter of a month.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Free T3 3.1 (2.4-3.9) pg/ml</p><p>Free T4 1.1 (0.58-1.64) ng/dl</p><p>TSH 0.26 (0.34-5.60) microIU/ml</p><p>Free Testosterone 3.3 (9-36) ng/dl</p><p>Total Testosterone 176 (240-950) ng/dl</p><p></p><p>Thanks for taking the time to read this.</p><p></p><p>Kurt</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="swing22hard, post: 5749, member: 846"] To answer your question about a year ago, I felt like crap & could hardly hold my fork up to my mouth to eat Christmas dinner. I wasn't impressed with my own doctor so I went to a well known Naturpath who did my blood work. When we got the blood work back she determined that my thyroid was off & my T was low & I was put on Trochies & Tapazole. Long story short of it is that I don't think she really knew what she was doing with the testosterone therapy & left me unmonitored. I had another blood test months later & my Total T was 1500 & I still felt like crap & had no energy. So I started going to an Endo & he put me on shots, but I dont care for needles & my wife would pin me & hit a nerve in my leg once that was all it took to put me on gels. I am still fighting fatigue constantly when everyone tells me my labs look perfect, I know something is wrong & I think very strongly that its still my thyroid, but finding an Endo who treats symptoms & not just goes by ranges is near impossible to find. So here I am completely frustrated by all this shit I have been dealing with for over a year & not feeling any better. Brain fog, impaired vision are the worst symptoms & I have been to 3 different eye specialists who find nothing wrong with my eyes. I have seen 3 different psychiatrists because my own PCP said he thinks its all in my head & they said no there is no depression but I have alot of anxiety from trying to figure out what is going on with me & prescribed me a low dose of Klonopin to help with the anxiety. Meanwhile I just feel like crap, tired all the time. I am 47 years old 185 lbs & have no stress but autoimmune disease runs in my family history, my mom had RA & Grandmother died of Parkinsons. My wife said I just need to be patient & wait for the other shoe to drop to see what is going on with me. It's very tough just waiting, I was hoping the testosterone would help & I think it does with giving me the boost of energy but it has not fixed whatever is wrong, just gives me the energy to keep moving. I am or used to be very active, I played racquetball 2-3 days a week & went to the gym but now I just ride mountain bikes in the hills for my workouts which absolutely kicks my ass. So I was getting frustrated & my old endo retired & I found a new one who ran labs on me they looked like this, I was dissapointed he didnt run a T3 with the other labs. So with that frustration I just said screw it & I dropped the T for one week which I thoroughly regret now. These were taken 2 weeks ago. Prolactin 5.47 (2.5-17.0) Testosterone 319.0 (200-810 ng/dl) SHBG 47.1 (13.7-71.0) FAI 23.5 (14.8-94.8 nmol/L) DHEA-SO4 173 (80-560 ug/dl) Cortisol 14.70 (5.0-25.0 ug/dl) ACTH 19.90 (0-46 pg/ml) TSH 0.478 (0.4-4.5 uIU/ml) T4, free 1.27 (0.8-1.8 ng/dL) ATA/ATPO 11.10 <35.0 IU/ml) ATG <20 (<20.0 IU/ML) Here are my original labs back in 12/20/2012 when they prescribed tapazole & testosterone supplement. This is when I could barely function, I could hardly hold a fork up to my mouth & had absolutely no energy. This came on so fast & went from feeling 100% to 10% in a matter of a month. Free T3 3.1 (2.4-3.9) pg/ml Free T4 1.1 (0.58-1.64) ng/dl TSH 0.26 (0.34-5.60) microIU/ml Free Testosterone 3.3 (9-36) ng/dl Total Testosterone 176 (240-950) ng/dl Thanks for taking the time to read this. Kurt [/QUOTE]
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