Alright, so, this might be a long thread, but I've got a lot of problems lol. Thank you guys in advance for the help. This is my first post on here, so my bad if I break any protocols or anything like that. I'm gonna have my blood work posted, one from a year ago and one from 2 months ago. As well as pictures of myself. First, I'll give a quick backstory so you can understand my physical history.
currently:
age:28
weight:190
height: 5'10
Growing up, at first I was kinda chubby but then did tae kwon do and I was in fairly good shape, and had close to a 6 pack up until 18ish. I was doing boxing and kickboxing, and worked out pretty regularly. I never worried about my diet but I never ate terribly. Around 18-19, I started to develop depression and I began for no reason eating mcdonalds late at night, and I stopped working out as much and I generally just felt like crap. This went on for 2 years and got so bad that I couldn't do any kind of work and was almost bed-ridden which culminated in a visit to the psychiatrist and a mood disorder dysthymic diagnosis. I ended going on the long road of trying out various psych drugs and I was on various drugs for a while.
Fastforward 8 years later, I'm on
Tegretol 300mg
Zoloft 12.5mg
Gabapentin 100mg 3xday
7k vitamin d
low doses of adderal sometimes as needed like 2.5 or 5 mg a day
These meds are pretty much absolutely needed. I've tried many times to get off of them, and be productive, and every time I do, my productivity takes a nose dive. But I'm open to feedback if someone can give me a really good specific reason why a certain med should be dropped or lowered due to the effect it's having on my body.
Anyhow, so, I'm fairly productive now, I can at least get work done, I just graduated school 6 months ago, I'm teaching myself coding as well, I've held a job consistently...
But, my physical fitness is ass. I'm sluggish, slow, out of it, I feel like an old man. My cardio used to be great and now it's abysmal. I don't know how much of it's from the meds, how much is from the depression and how much of it is simply me. But, I'm sick and tired of having this body. I WANT my old body back!! And I'm reaching out to you guys for help. I can sort of get myself to the gym, and have a decent workout, but it's hard. My diet isn't great but it's not terrible, I feel like I should look much better. I generally eat well save for some binges here and there. My physical energy is just super low. My morning wood, isn't super great. I mean a get hard on, but it's not super hard. And usually I'm ok in sex, like I can get it up, although sometimes, I've had moments where I couldn't but in general that's ok. But my physical fitness is just off. I've done some research, and I think based on the way my body looks, my cortisol must be way too high given all my fat keeps getting sent to my stomach. Anyways, take a look at the blood work and pics, and please give me some feedback.
-Test1 bloodwork is from over a year ago, I was on lower amounts of meds, we're talking 100mg Tegretol instead of 300 and slightly lower vitamin d, like 5k a day rather than 7k a day
-Test2, The most recent bloodwork is with the current regiment of medication which is a higher dosage of Tegretol and some more vitamin d 7k vs 5k a day
Also, I added a picture of my face too, to show that I think I'm dealing with premature aging as generally people think I'm older than I am, due to the dark spots/wrinkles underneath my eyes. I am wondering if this has anything to do with the cortisol as well? This has only happened in the last couple years.
I know that was long, but thank you guys in advance for all ya'll help. Very much appreciated.
currently:
age:28
weight:190
height: 5'10
Growing up, at first I was kinda chubby but then did tae kwon do and I was in fairly good shape, and had close to a 6 pack up until 18ish. I was doing boxing and kickboxing, and worked out pretty regularly. I never worried about my diet but I never ate terribly. Around 18-19, I started to develop depression and I began for no reason eating mcdonalds late at night, and I stopped working out as much and I generally just felt like crap. This went on for 2 years and got so bad that I couldn't do any kind of work and was almost bed-ridden which culminated in a visit to the psychiatrist and a mood disorder dysthymic diagnosis. I ended going on the long road of trying out various psych drugs and I was on various drugs for a while.
Fastforward 8 years later, I'm on
Tegretol 300mg
Zoloft 12.5mg
Gabapentin 100mg 3xday
7k vitamin d
low doses of adderal sometimes as needed like 2.5 or 5 mg a day
These meds are pretty much absolutely needed. I've tried many times to get off of them, and be productive, and every time I do, my productivity takes a nose dive. But I'm open to feedback if someone can give me a really good specific reason why a certain med should be dropped or lowered due to the effect it's having on my body.
Anyhow, so, I'm fairly productive now, I can at least get work done, I just graduated school 6 months ago, I'm teaching myself coding as well, I've held a job consistently...
But, my physical fitness is ass. I'm sluggish, slow, out of it, I feel like an old man. My cardio used to be great and now it's abysmal. I don't know how much of it's from the meds, how much is from the depression and how much of it is simply me. But, I'm sick and tired of having this body. I WANT my old body back!! And I'm reaching out to you guys for help. I can sort of get myself to the gym, and have a decent workout, but it's hard. My diet isn't great but it's not terrible, I feel like I should look much better. I generally eat well save for some binges here and there. My physical energy is just super low. My morning wood, isn't super great. I mean a get hard on, but it's not super hard. And usually I'm ok in sex, like I can get it up, although sometimes, I've had moments where I couldn't but in general that's ok. But my physical fitness is just off. I've done some research, and I think based on the way my body looks, my cortisol must be way too high given all my fat keeps getting sent to my stomach. Anyways, take a look at the blood work and pics, and please give me some feedback.
-Test1 bloodwork is from over a year ago, I was on lower amounts of meds, we're talking 100mg Tegretol instead of 300 and slightly lower vitamin d, like 5k a day rather than 7k a day
-Test2, The most recent bloodwork is with the current regiment of medication which is a higher dosage of Tegretol and some more vitamin d 7k vs 5k a day
Also, I added a picture of my face too, to show that I think I'm dealing with premature aging as generally people think I'm older than I am, due to the dark spots/wrinkles underneath my eyes. I am wondering if this has anything to do with the cortisol as well? This has only happened in the last couple years.
I know that was long, but thank you guys in advance for all ya'll help. Very much appreciated.
