- this is a problem as TRT will take this too high and hopefully you can do blood donations to thin out your blood. Do not tell the blood bank people that you are donating blood for these reasons.
Do not take any supplements that have added iron, avoid iron fortified foods/cereals.
TSH is great. Check waking oral body temperatures and ALSO see if you can hit 98.6 mid-afternoon. Check that someone else can get 98.6 on your thermometer, they are cheaply made.
TT is low. Now you need to find out why, get these labs:
TT
FT
E2
LH/FSH
prolactin
TSH
fT3
fT4 [please not T3, T4]
Are outer eyebrows sparse? That could be low thyroid function and in turn might be cause by not using iodized salt. Sea salt should be avoided.
Blood pressure?
Low energy can be from low thyroid function and/or low-T
Hair loss on lower legs is a symptom of low T. Look at older guys legs in the summer time, shorts reveal all. You can also spot thyroid problems looking at eyebrows, but with women plucking their eyebrows… Have seen lower leg hair loss from wearing wool trousers, but not with other fabrics.
I think that you have had low T long term, perhaps forever. May be at a critical lower point now and/or complicated by low thyroid function.
Your TSH says, OK, body temps not. Low thyroid function robs energy and drives fat gain. Most symptoms of low thyroid function are same as low T and both together is quite common.
Centrum vitamins: Make sure no added iron, you do want trace elements including iodine+selenium.
Get ample EFAs in your diet, nuts, fish oil, flax seed oil/meal, you seem on track.
Get ample healthy fats. Low fat diet is dangerous.
Cholesterol may balance out when sex hormones are right.
Was lab work fasting?
Any signs of gyno? Any issues in the past?
A lot of issues above, try to address all that see to be questions.
Stickies to read 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
- thyroid basics