Please read the stickies found here: About the T Replacement Category - #2 by KSman
- advice for new guys
- things that damage your hormones
- protocol for injections
- finding a TRT doc
Low thyroid function has most of the same symptoms as low-T. So you might have both problems and double the trouble.
Have you been getting iodine from iodized salt or vitamins that list iodine+selenium?
Are your outer eyebrows sparse?
Dry skin or brittle nails?
Feel cold easily?
Doctors are the problem, all over the world. National health systems make a mess of things with restrictions and by making doctors into robots that say no.
We need to know where you are.
Endocrinologists and urologists are the worst. You need to read the stickies and know more than the idiot doctors. You need to actively manage your own hormone care and cannot be passive.
Labs:
TT
FT
E2
LH/FSH
prolactin
CBC
hematocrit
TSH
fT3
fT4
You can eval overall thyroid temperature by checking to see if low as per the thyroid basics sticky. This can be more informative than thyroid labs.