I need help.

[Mr. Anderson]

Hi I'm new and ive came to this site in search of information to help me with some ongoing health problems and to get back in the gym and hit it like I did back in the day.

Quick Bio, I'm 26, about 3 years ago I walked around at 165 lbs at 6% body fat and was practicing mma. I cut 70 lbs to make 155 originally being 230 lbs. I was badass. Now I'm 250 (not in a good way) and feel like a fkn slob. I developed some bad health problems that are still ongoing but have improved. In the begining I felt as if I was gonna have heart failure, I'd collapse become clammy and pale just trying to make something to eat, was waking up extremely dehydrated and had a hole array of symptoms.

I was diagnosed hypothyroid and now take levothyroxine 112 (synthroid-T4) which I've been on for almost a year now but I still suffer daily with bad fatiuge, forgetfullness and loss of focus/concentration. My sex drive is horrible, I have dry skin and thin hair, I feel my immune systems compromised since when I'm running around all day I feel like I have a cold comming on but don't actually get sick. I have muscle tension, and physical anxiety, my body gets so run down throughout the day. In the morning I feel extremely aggressive but it does happen in the evenings as well. My sleep cycle is way off, I'm awake at night and asleep during the day and my vision seems poorer. I almost feel like my brains running on way less then it should be. I still can't tolerate cold for **** and don't feel well rested upon awakening, its really hard for me to get going.

What I'm doing to combat these effects is I take 112 mcg synthroid, Vit d3 4-5000 iu, Vit C 2000 mg and eat extremely healthy, lots of salmon, tuna whole grain,olive/coconut oil, turkey and chicken, and some nasty calf liver once maybe twice a week and eggs a couple times a week as well. I run 5k every single day and no budge in weight, my blood sugar is more sensitive now as well. The running seems to help the most. I would lift but my recovery time is horrible, 4-5 days and it doesn't get better. This had been going on for 2 years now.

I've been looking into the uncommon possibility of adrenals fatiuge and have ordered dhea, I've read up on so much **** it isn't even funny, I've been put on antidepressants, non addictive anti anxiety meds, benzos, all kinds of **** but none of that stuff fits. It's just treating a symptom.

Dhea and hgh seems to really fit the prognosis.

I tried to keep it short and compress 3 years into this. If you have any other questions ask I'm sure theres stuff I forgot, I see my endocrinologist next wensday. I just bought a 3 year gym membership at titans and either way I'm taking the dhea or something. Idc what the doc says. I know I'm young for it but something needs to be done cause I'm putting off my life for this ****. I'm gonna have her check my HDL, Dhea, liver, kidneys. If there is an adrenal insufficiency or dhea I should have an abundance of hdl then correct?

Any advice is very greatly appreciated, my BP and HR is really good. I do take care of myself.

 

[hitest]

The part of the story I'd like to know is what happened that made you go from 165 to 250? Did you stop exercising and eat a ton of crap? Was there some other factor in play? Or do you think the thyroid is the primary issue?

 

[The Matrix]

I would be looking for a conversion factor in t4 and t3 due to just using t4. I see a lot of issues which need to be further investigated. Do not start supplementing hormones when there is an underlying cause which needs to be identified other wise you could be doing more harm then good?

 

[Mr. Anderson]

I would be looking for a conversion factor in t4 and t3 due to just using t4. I see a lot of issues which need to be further investigated. Do not start supplementing hormones when there is an underlying cause which needs to be identified other wise you could be doing more harm then good?

I've had her check and recheck my labs for thyroid, she says everything is good though. I'm gonna get the login information to my chart in a few hours and will follow up by posting as much information on my labs as possible. I wasn't even a heavy supplement user or anything before this, I used a lot of crap like L-glutamine and protein and just bs. I've tried 1 cycle of andro1 and 4 in my life but I was alreay in such good shape it just helped a little u know. Nothing else performance enhancing besides that and 1 cycle of lypo 6 black so I don't think its from supps. That would be extremely rare from 1 time right?


Either way I've been dealing with this for so long I'm concidering using whatever I must to become normal again.

I'll post my labs in a few hours.

Another weird thing is eating like a quarter lb of shhitake mushrooms which is high in selenium made me feel confused and hyper and made me feel clammy and sweaty like my body temp increased from it. It really feels like I go hyper from it, I get something similar from the calf liver. I took a multivitamin that did the same as well but I don't see why small amounts of idiodine and selenium would make such a huge difference if my thyroid isn't working or maybe its the zinc and magnesium and vit e or maybe the vit b complex. B12 came back good tho, so did my sed rate, I don't remember much on all my labs. Ill get em up soon.

I saw my regular physician and he said to have her check my adrenals and pituatary. I keep notes evey week or few days in how I feel or how things make me feel with my diet and activities/exercise. I'm putting in the work, somethings just not right and when it gets down to a celullar level with hormones and such I start to get lost, i cant figure eveything out. I have a decent understanding of the body but not that good.

I found and bookmarked ur checklist on here of things to have checked to find out what's wrong in 4 weeks or something like that after reading through lots if information. I'll try to propose the information to my doctor but I've noticed that they don't like being told how to do they're jobs which sux cuz I don't know what's wrong but I know somethings not right.

 

[Mr. Anderson]

The part of the story I'd like to know is what happened that made you go from 165 to 250? Did you stop exercising and eat a ton of crap? Was there some other factor in play? Or do you think the thyroid is the primary issue?

Well normally I walk around at an easy 180 to 205. I used to throw up 350 on bench and am 5'8 so I was always just stocky but in a really god way, my one friend says my body type is pretty rare since I'm just so stocky, like wide and built, kinda like that john cena dude is. That's one of the reasons i cut so much weight to get to 165 so I could fight 155. I was alot stronger then everyone in my class which gave me a big edge I did sacrifice a lot of muscle doing that though. I worked my ass off for that **** and worked 60 hours a week ontop of it at the same time. Now I'm just burnt out. I feel so weak it sucks.

Idk if its just the thyroid or not that made me gain weight, I tried every diet under the sun, even juiced for months. I pushed myself to run and workout even when I felt like I was gonna die but my recovery times with lifting have and are still horrible and don't get any better. I feel so weak but not as bad as when this all started. I can't lift nearly as much as I used to.

No matter what I did every time I went back to the doctor I'd gain weight, I gained most of it mostly because it took them a year just to figure out it was my thyroid that was messed up and by then I was 230 and I was the one that figured it out after reasing and reading and reading, not them.

I went throuh a period of time where i couldnt eat alot of foods like I was having trauma inside my body, I'd get confusion and feel like my body temp was fluctuating. For 1 month all I could eat was potatoes to avoid this trauma then worked my way into other foods which was very strange.

After eating even like wheat toast and chicken broth and baked chicken and stuff I'd go into this shock of hyperactive trauma and would feel urged to drink lots and I mean lots of water. My blood sugar has always came back good but I still can't eat fruits. I have a monitor just in case it happens but I avoid fruits now as it feels like it messes with my sugar. I've suspected my gull bladder being damaged since I've started to feel pain there recently and it makes me feek sick when it happens from getting up or running. There is a difference in how I feel when it actually is my sugar or my gull bladder possibly.

Even for 250 I hold the weight extremely well probably why the doctors didn't seem to concerned but I was probably about 200 when I started seeing them. If I could get my stuff back together I could melt this off and kill it in the gym, I cut that 70 lbs in 2 months. I ate 10 times a day and just killed it in the gym, plus worked 10 houts a day.

As of right now I suspect adrenal insufficiency and possible gull bladder problems, I've tried honey cuz I read that could help and it did greatly but then when i stopped using it the ares where my kidneys or adrenals glands are felt tired in my back and I was so run down. I know its good fuel but it never had that effect on me in the past.

My kidney/adrenal area felt very tired last week to, I think it could be my adrenals. It's how my thyroid felt before, like tired. I had to make them test it twice to find out it was out of whack. The doctors didnt even find this **** I did by reading very extensively on the endocrine system and pushing them to run tests. Now I'm on this thyroid sht and my endo is perfectly content with the numbers, that's all she seems to give a **** about. I'm not being a ****n push over anymore. I've been patient enough. This is my body and I have to live in it.

I had one ER doctor over a year ago tell me my red blood cell count was really high and was asking me if I take supps or eat alot of meat. They also were asking me where I worked and if I worked with metals, said I had high iron. I couldnt tell if they were hinting on something or not since a lot of times they don't like to deal with those sorts of problems at the ER. I went in after eating something and feeling trauma but my blood sugar was fine. They just hydrated me and let me go.

Every symptom I have for having a lack of dhea seems to fit but it could be another hormone like hgh just fir example since either would help aleve some of the same symptoms. It's gonna be tough finding out what actually is the source of this.

 

[The Matrix]

Well normally I walk around at an easy 180 to 205. I used to throw up 350 on bench and am 5'8 so I was always just stocky but in a really god way, my one friend says my body type is pretty rare since I'm just so stocky, like wide and built, kinda like that john cena dude is. That's one of the reasons i cut so much weight to get to 165 so I could fight 155. I was alot stronger then everyone in my class which gave me a big edge I did sacrifice a lot of muscle doing that though. I worked my ass off for that **** and worked 60 hours a week ontop of it at the same time. Now I'm just burnt out. I feel so weak it sucks.

Idk if its just the thyroid or not that made me gain weight, I tried every diet under the sun, even juiced for months. I pushed myself to run and workout even when I felt like I was gonna die but my recovery times with lifting have and are still horrible and don't get any better. I feel so weak but not as bad as when this all started. I can't lift nearly as much as I used to.

No matter what I did every time I went back to the doctor I'd gain weight, I gained most of it mostly because it took them a year just to figure out it was my thyroid that was messed up and by then I was 230 and I was the one that figured it out after reasing and reading and reading, not them.

I went throuh a period of time where i couldnt eat alot of foods like I was having trauma inside my body, I'd get confusion and feel like my body temp was fluctuating. For 1 month all I could eat was potatoes to avoid this trauma then worked my way into other foods which was very strange.

After eating even like wheat toast and chicken broth and baked chicken and stuff I'd go into this shock of hyperactive trauma and would feel urged to drink lots and I mean lots of water. My blood sugar has always came back good but I still can't eat fruits. I have a monitor just in case it happens but I avoid fruits now as it feels like it messes with my sugar. I've suspected my gull bladder being damaged since I've started to feel pain there recently and it makes me feek sick when it happens from getting up or running. There is a difference in how I feel when it actually is my sugar or my gull bladder possibly.

Even for 250 I hold the weight extremely well probably why the doctors didn't seem to concerned but I was probably about 200 when I started seeing them. If I could get my stuff back together I could melt this off and kill it in the gym, I cut that 70 lbs in 2 months. I ate 10 times a day and just killed it in the gym, plus worked 10 houts a day.

As of right now I suspect adrenal insufficiency and possible gull bladder problems, I've tried honey cuz I read that could help and it did greatly but then when i stopped using it the ares where my kidneys or adrenals glands are felt tired in my back and I was so run down. I know its good fuel but it never had that effect on me in the past.

My kidney/adrenal area felt very tired last week to, I think it could be my adrenals. It's how my thyroid felt before, like tired. I had to make them test it twice to find out it was out of whack. The doctors didnt even find this **** I did by reading very extensively on the endocrine system and pushing them to run tests. Now I'm on this thyroid sht and my endo is perfectly content with the numbers, that's all she seems to give a **** about. I'm not being a ****n push over anymore. I've been patient enough. This is my body and I have to live in it.

I had one ER doctor over a year ago tell me my red blood cell count was really high and was asking me if I take supps or eat alot of meat. They also were asking me where I worked and if I worked with metals, said I had high iron. I couldnt tell if they were hinting on something or not since a lot of times they don't like to deal with those sorts of problems at the ER. I went in after eating something and feeling trauma but my blood sugar was fine. They just hydrated me and let me go.

Every symptom I have for having a lack of dhea seems to fit but it could be another hormone like hgh just fir example since either would help aleve some of the same symptoms. It's gonna be tough finding out what actually is the source of this.

Why do you have low DHEA, most likely you are having inflammatory responses which are activating the immune system. You are using the bandaid effect which will make you feel better, but may cause more problems in the long run which you do not want. PM me and I am sure I will be able to assist you as this really a not an uncommon situation.

 

[Mr. Anderson]

Hey it says ur inbox is full, ill try again in awhile

 

[Mr. Anderson]

I've been reading a lot again and it does seem I'm suffering from 1 of 3 things but more then likely its inadequate thyroid replacement treatment since I'm treated with t4 only meds, maybe lack of free t3. Other possibility follows adrenal insuffiency or cortisol from the adrenals, symptoms I display sounds right.

 

[The Matrix]

Proper evalution and few adjustements you be good as new Typical case scenerio..Dr's are just not educated in proper therapeutic protocol.

I've been reading a lot again and it does seem I'm suffering from 1 of 3 things but more then likely its inadequate thyroid replacement treatment since I'm treated with t4 only meds, maybe lack of free t3. Other possibility follows adrenal insuffiency or cortisol from the adrenals, symptoms I display sounds right.