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Hi all,
I recently found this forum due to endless searching for TRT questions and I'm glad I did!
I'm a 37 year old male and have been training regularly for about 20 years. For the past year and a half - to 2 years I've had VERY low energy, decreases sex drive, decreased performance at work, foggy thinking (compared to my younger years), and muscle is super hard to hang on to. These are all symptoms of low T but my lab work says I'm normal so doctors say I'm not a candidate for TRT and I should be treated for chronic fatigue syndrome. Epstein Barr Virus panel came back negative.
My lab work on 2 separate dates came back as follows:
Jan 7 2020
Total T: 589 ng/dl
SHBG: 52.93 nmol/L
Free T: 8.8 ng/dl
Estradiol: 6.5 pg/ml Flagged Low
Jan 28
Total T: 573 ng/dl
SHBG: 36 nmol/L
Free T: 10.2 ng/dl
Estradiol: 15.5 pg/ml
Doctor said these are good numbers for someone your age. Has anyone had similar results? Any idea why the symptoms of low T without having low T? There was much more on the panel like thyroid function and complete blood panel... all good. I've never taken any exogenous hormones and my diet is "clean" at 2800 calories a day. Mostly organic meats and fish. Been using "myfitnesspal" to track food and been hitting around 225g protein, 250g carbs, 100g fats. I train 4 days a week for about 1 - 1.5 hours. Maybe over training? Thanks for any insight.
I recently found this forum due to endless searching for TRT questions and I'm glad I did!
I'm a 37 year old male and have been training regularly for about 20 years. For the past year and a half - to 2 years I've had VERY low energy, decreases sex drive, decreased performance at work, foggy thinking (compared to my younger years), and muscle is super hard to hang on to. These are all symptoms of low T but my lab work says I'm normal so doctors say I'm not a candidate for TRT and I should be treated for chronic fatigue syndrome. Epstein Barr Virus panel came back negative.
My lab work on 2 separate dates came back as follows:
Jan 7 2020
Total T: 589 ng/dl
SHBG: 52.93 nmol/L
Free T: 8.8 ng/dl
Estradiol: 6.5 pg/ml Flagged Low
Jan 28
Total T: 573 ng/dl
SHBG: 36 nmol/L
Free T: 10.2 ng/dl
Estradiol: 15.5 pg/ml
Doctor said these are good numbers for someone your age. Has anyone had similar results? Any idea why the symptoms of low T without having low T? There was much more on the panel like thyroid function and complete blood panel... all good. I've never taken any exogenous hormones and my diet is "clean" at 2800 calories a day. Mostly organic meats and fish. Been using "myfitnesspal" to track food and been hitting around 225g protein, 250g carbs, 100g fats. I train 4 days a week for about 1 - 1.5 hours. Maybe over training? Thanks for any insight.