Thyroid is wrong.
- Do you use iodized salt to support thyroid hormone production? -timeline
- Are your outer eyebrows sparse? How long? Find old photos?
- Cold - YES
- Thyroid looks/feels enlarged, lumpy?
- Sore? Trouble swallowing sometimes?
- See last paragraph in this post to eval overall thyroid function.
Do you get leg cramps? That would be a sign of magnesium deficiency that can also affect muscle tone of arterial muscles and might be a factor with your circulatory issues,
RBC and HTC reflect your low T.
In USA? In most States you can order your own labs for a low cost.
At your age, low T is the symptom, not the disease. You need labs to try to find the problem(s). We do see a pattern of low-T and low thyroid function here that suggests a connection.
When did things seem to start going wrong? Is that when you started to feel cold? Any blows to the head that might have set this in motion?
Where are you located? Affects your treatment and diagnostic options.
Labs:
TT
FT
E2
prolactin
LH/FSH
fasting cholesterol - sometimes too low
List all meds, Rx or OTC that you have been using or used when creatinine=148, the pattern also appears progressive.
Do you use any heart burn medications?
What supplements are you using?
Fish oil for EFAs?
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
Evaluate your overall thyroid function by checking oral body temperatures as per the thyroid basics sticky. Thyroid hormone fT3 is what gets the job done and it regulates mitochondrial activity, the source of ATP which is the universal currency of cellular energy. This is part of the body’s temperature control loop. This can get messed up if you are iodine deficient. In many countries, you need to be using iodized salt. Other countries add iodine to dairy or bread.