Age; 23
Height; 5’ 11"
Weight; 170lb
Describe body and facial hair;
Large amount of hair on lower body, upper body hair quite sparse. Facial hair is slow to grow and thinner than others my age.
Describe where you carry fat and how changed; Carry fat on my lower stomach and love handles, also around my lower pectorals (some pubertal gyno present)
Health conditions, symptoms [history]; No diagnosed physical conditions; recently dealing with depression and anxiety related to the deaths of an immediate family member and good friend. Doctor attempted to prescibe me antidepressants but I turned them down.
My symptoms;
-low energy
-low libido
-mental fog
-extreme forgetfulness (spend a lot more time lately looking for phone/wallet/keys)
-low body temperature
-Rx and OTC drugs, any hair loss drugs or prostate drugs ever
Standard multivitamins/preworkout etc. No hair loss or prostate drugs ever.
-lab results with ranges
TSH 2.75 (0.40-4.00)
TT 19.3 (10.0-35.0)
SHBG 41 (10-50)
Calculated free test 341 (225-725)
Albumin 48 (38-50)
Uric Acid 0.40 (0.18-0.44)
Ferritin 133 (30-400)
I understand now after reading the forums that there are other tests that I should have asked for, I will be going back in a few weeks after attempting an Iodine replenishment.
-describe diet [some create substantial damage with starvation diets]
Currently maintaining on around 2500kcals a day. Diet is reasonably consistent but have a few too many cheat days.
-describe training [some ruin there hormones by over training]
Full body 4x a week. Training has been terrible lately due to my lethargy.
-testes ache, ever, with a fever?
Not that I have noticed.
Body temperatures over the last 3 days, measured twice for accuracy.
9/9
AM 35.7 35.9
PM 36.4 36.4
10/9
PM 37.1 37.1
11/9
AM 36.1 36.2
PM 36.8 36.8
My iodine intake has been zero up until a few days ago. I have started having more iodised salt on my food while I wait for my iodine supplement to show up in the mail.