Hi guys, I am far from an expert on hormones and I have some ideas here but would value the opinions of others on this board.
For the last couple of weeks I have been feeling very, very run down. It is pretty profound - like almost catatonic. I get to a point where I would be happy just staring at a wall and not moving. My body feels heavy, and I have no motivation to move at all. It impacts my work, and even though I am trying to fight through it I know I am working in slow motion.
Mentally, I have deficits. Sometimes it is difficult to even focus on a conversation and if there are two or three ideas I have to follow while there is activity around me I can totally blank out. It becomes overwhelming, even though I know what I am trying to follow is not complicated.
And the thing is, I had this exact same thing happen last year. I went to the doctor and ran a bunch of standard tests, lyme, etc. And we found nothing beyond my red cells being a mess because I carry a trait for thalasemia.
So when this started happening a couple weeks ago, I had it in my head that I felt like this in April 2019 and then last week I went to check my records and I first went to the doctor on 6/6/19 - which was probably 2-3 weeks after I started having symptoms last year - so I am almost on schedule to the week with this, which isn't how I remembered it.
So I made another apt. With the doc and he did a bunch of bloods. I asked for some testosterone tests and he was worried insurance wouldn't pay for it but agreed to order total test. And the bloods were drawn as Thursday.
Now, I have been researching and it turns out there is an unexplained phenomenon called spring fatigue - so maybe that is all this is. It also looks like testosterone levels fluctuate throughout the year and are lowest in the spring possibly.
My bloods came back and it looks like my doctor ordered all kinds of stuff looking for inflammatory markers, lupus, autoimmune diseases, etc. - everything is looking good.
Total test came back at 390 though. I am 40 years old. I am not sure what to think about this given just how profound my symptoms are. I feel like 390 shouldn't have suck an impact on things...its low for my age but in range.
But after the bloodwork was done last week, I started taking 200 mg/day DHEA orally, plus using dermacrine and 400 mg. Oral 7-keto dhea.
To be honest, I feel a ton better. To me, this is further evidence something isn't quite right. I did deadliest tonight and they felt so much easier then they have been feeling - not like I was that much stronger, just like I had the energy for them again.
Also, I have been waking up feeling like I didn't get any rest at all and a truck hit me in my sleep no matter how long I sleep...up to 9.5 hours...and since the dermacrine that has been subsiding dramatically.
What do you guys think - is 390 THAT low?
I wish he had taken free test, SHBG, LH, FSH, E2 but I didn't think it would come back poorly...and now it is even worse, it wasn't poor but wasn't good and I am not sure if it has anything to do with this.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
For the last couple of weeks I have been feeling very, very run down. It is pretty profound - like almost catatonic. I get to a point where I would be happy just staring at a wall and not moving. My body feels heavy, and I have no motivation to move at all. It impacts my work, and even though I am trying to fight through it I know I am working in slow motion.
Mentally, I have deficits. Sometimes it is difficult to even focus on a conversation and if there are two or three ideas I have to follow while there is activity around me I can totally blank out. It becomes overwhelming, even though I know what I am trying to follow is not complicated.
And the thing is, I had this exact same thing happen last year. I went to the doctor and ran a bunch of standard tests, lyme, etc. And we found nothing beyond my red cells being a mess because I carry a trait for thalasemia.
So when this started happening a couple weeks ago, I had it in my head that I felt like this in April 2019 and then last week I went to check my records and I first went to the doctor on 6/6/19 - which was probably 2-3 weeks after I started having symptoms last year - so I am almost on schedule to the week with this, which isn't how I remembered it.
So I made another apt. With the doc and he did a bunch of bloods. I asked for some testosterone tests and he was worried insurance wouldn't pay for it but agreed to order total test. And the bloods were drawn as Thursday.
Now, I have been researching and it turns out there is an unexplained phenomenon called spring fatigue - so maybe that is all this is. It also looks like testosterone levels fluctuate throughout the year and are lowest in the spring possibly.
My bloods came back and it looks like my doctor ordered all kinds of stuff looking for inflammatory markers, lupus, autoimmune diseases, etc. - everything is looking good.
Total test came back at 390 though. I am 40 years old. I am not sure what to think about this given just how profound my symptoms are. I feel like 390 shouldn't have suck an impact on things...its low for my age but in range.
But after the bloodwork was done last week, I started taking 200 mg/day DHEA orally, plus using dermacrine and 400 mg. Oral 7-keto dhea.
To be honest, I feel a ton better. To me, this is further evidence something isn't quite right. I did deadliest tonight and they felt so much easier then they have been feeling - not like I was that much stronger, just like I had the energy for them again.
Also, I have been waking up feeling like I didn't get any rest at all and a truck hit me in my sleep no matter how long I sleep...up to 9.5 hours...and since the dermacrine that has been subsiding dramatically.
What do you guys think - is 390 THAT low?
I wish he had taken free test, SHBG, LH, FSH, E2 but I didn't think it would come back poorly...and now it is even worse, it wasn't poor but wasn't good and I am not sure if it has anything to do with this.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts.