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My jaw dropped while reading this poor mans situation.
Perhaps someone could lend him some credible advise.
Hey guys I was referred here by someone over on a thyroid.
Hey guys. I am a 21 year old male. I am 5 10 and weigh 123 pounds (you will find out why so low if you keep reading
)
This all started back in my senior year of high school. I ended up getting
mono/hepatits during cross country season without even realizing it. We ran
anywhere from 60-70 miles a week. After the season ended we discovered I had
both of those. After I "recovered", I continued to run on my own (still around
50 miles a week). I always felt tired and continued to make myself run
everyday. I never lost weight or anything, I just never allowed myself to
recover. I also think that while I was eating enough calories I may not have
been getting enough nutrition (the right vitamins/minerals/etc). My energy
continued to slowly decline at a very slow pace. My first year of college I
continued to run 30-40 miles a week for a runners club, and also lifted weights
6 times a week. Along with the weight lifting I began taking these pre-workout
nitric oxide/energy drinks that are loaded with caffeine and other stimulants
(and continued to take them every day up until maybe a month or so ago, so for 2-3 years!). By
the next year I no longer had enough energy to run much anymore, but I
continued to lift and take the pre-workout energy drinks. THe following summer
is when I developed the bad constipation. I never got over it and for the past 2
years I have had to use my finger in the morning to stimulate a bowel movement
(otherwise I dont go for 4-5 days). Nothing I have done has fixed my symptoms, not going dairy or gluten free, using
digestive enzymes, supplementing with magnesium/selenium/zinc, eating lots of
raw veggies an fruit, cultured fermented veggies, coconut oil, raw butter, not even colonics. The colonoscopy and endoscopy ruled out any thing wrong in the intestines and stomach itself, no celiacs, no cancer/diverticuli/etc, healthy vili. Anal rectal manometry and bio feedback indicate nothing I wrong with the way I have a bowel movement either. Now all along I have been treating the
constipation as the cause of my fatigue/sluggishness, dry skin, non existent sex
drive, difficulty getting erections, very weak erections, almost no semen production, low body temp (around 96.9/97 in mornigs-97.4 or so in he afternoon and at night...but stable, doesnt wildly fluctuate), etc. However, after reading online about thyroid and
adrenal problems I think the constipation is just another symptom.
I went to my docs and they drew some blood. My TSH was 6.01 (0.27-4.20), and my free t4 was 1.030 (1.01-1.79).
IGG 875.5 (700-1600)
IGA 112.4 (70-400)
IGM 199.3 (40-230) WHat do these represent?
Thyroglobul AB <20 (<20)
thyroid per AB <10 (<35)
They put me on trial of syntrhroid and after about 2 months of 50 mcg a day then 2 months of 100 mcg a day my tesh was at 1.20 and m4 ft4 was up to 1.36. I still had all the symptoms though. I found STTM and began doing research. I tried to get them to look at ft3 an other things but they wouldn't listen.
I have now had mary shomons breakthrough done along with testosterone (total). The results were
Test Name Flag Result Ref Range Units
Glucose 80 65-99 mg/dL
Uric Acid 3.2 2.4-8.2 mg/dL
BUN 26 5-26 mg/dL
Creatinine 0.92 0.76-1.27 mg/dL
eGFR >59 >59 mL/min/1.73
eGFR AfricanAmerican >59 >59 mL/min/1.73
BUN/Creatinine Ratio HIGH 28 8-27
Sodium 140 135-145 mmol/L
Potassium 4.5 3.5-5.2 mmol/L
Chloride 104 97-108 mmol/L
Calcium 9.2 8.7-10.2 mg/dL
Phosphorus 3.6 2.5-4.5 mg/dL
Protein, Total 6.4 6.0-8.5 g/dL
Albumin 4.6 3.5-5.5 g/dL
Globulin, Total 1.8 1.5-4.5 g/dL
A/G Ratio HIGH 2.6 1.1-2.5
Bilirubin, Total 0.5 0.0-1.2 mg/dL
Alkaline Phosphatase, S 83 25-150 IU/L
LDH 144 100-250 IU/L
AST (SGOT) 34 0-40 IU/L
ALT (SGPT) 52 0-55 IU/L
GGT 51 0-65 IU/L
Iron 77 40-155 ug/dL
Cholesterol, Total 159 100-199 mg/dL
Triglycerides 31 0-149 mg/dL
HDL Cholesterol 79 >39 mg/dL
VLDL Cholesterol Cal 6 5-40 mg/dL
LDL Cholesterol Calc 74 0-99 mg/dL
T. Chol/HDL Ratio 2.0 0.0-5.0 ratio units
Estimated CHD Risk < 0.5 0.0-1.0 times avg.
TSH 2.950 0.450-4.500 uIU/mL
Testosterone LOW 115 280-800 ng/dL
LH LOW 0.5 1.7-8.6 mIU/mL
Vitamin D, 25-Hydroxy 37.6 32.0-100.0 ng/mL
T4,Free(Direct) 1.23 0.82-1.77 ng/dL
Prolactin 9.5 4.0-15.2 ng/mL
Estradiol 15.0 7.6-42.6 pg/mL
DHEA-Sulfate 455.3 211.0-492.0 ug/dL
FSH 2.3 1.5-12.4 mIU/mL
Progesterone 0.9 0.2-1.4 ng/mL
Thyroid Peroxidase (TPO) Ab 17 0-34 IU/mL
Triiodothyronine,Free 2.1 2.0-4.4 pg/mL
After only two weeks of being off synthroid my TSH is already going back up, and like I suspected my freet3 is at the very bottom of its range. I am also essentially castrated testosterone wise.
We then did a more detailed testosterone workup and got the following
We got the testosterone workup back and I am worse off then we thought
Name Value Reference Range
TESTOSTERONE<a> 67 241-827
SEX HORM BIND GLOBULIN<a> 40 13-71
CALC. FREE TESTOSTERONE<a> 1.1 6.0-27.0
Reading online it seems having low lh and low fsh along with low testosterone indicates something wrong with the pituitary or hypothalamus. How does this link up with thyroid? And does the fact that I had mono put me at a greater risk of having the hashimotos disease (an could that be causing all my problems?)
Does such a high DHEA-S indicate any adrenal problems? I am doing the salivary cortisol test today and will mail it in tommorow. I don't "feel" as if I have adrenal problems, I can go to the gym 4-5 times a week, and walk 3 miles a day and not feel super fatigued or anything. I have no trouble sleeping, no waking up at night, sleep gives me some energy back, but not as much as it should (though the fact it refreshes me a bit is a good thing...no adrenal exhaustion at least, if anything only mild). The only thing that had me suspecting adrenals as well is my history (running is definitely harsh on adrenals and all the energy/nitric oxide drinks).
My D3 levels were also pretty low but I take a lot of cod liver oil and am good about supplementation. WOuld it be wise to check any other vitamins/minerals to see if there is any degree of malabsorption going on? I am awesome about nutrition and supplementation (magnesium = 800-1000 mg, vit c = 4-5 grams throughout the day, zinc, selenium, b-12, digestive enzymes, probiotics, lots of sea vegetables, granulated kelp, etc).
The worse symptom to me both mentally and physically is the constipation. I just don't get the urge to go for 3 days, sometimes 4, and when I do go I just ont feel like I have a lot of push/power in expelling the crud. It also comes out in soft narrow pellets, so it may just be squeezing past older harder feces.. I need to put back some weight (since the constipation started two years ago I have gone from 135ish to about 123). I am eating very high healthy fats (rich in vitamins too) to keep things as calorie dense as possible while still getting in goo amounts of fruit/veggies/fiber. I also have a thing of meat (lean meat, fatty red meat, or salmon) every day along with a scoop of goat milk or egg white protein powder. I cant gain weight eating close to 3000 calories a day and I dont burn a lot of calories in activities.
I have been giving myself a 64 ounce enema on advice from my colonic lady as well as a naturopath just so I can keep things from stagnating, becuase being constipated sure as shi* (pun intended) wont help my situation. I stopped using my finger because I hought I had gotten my body addicted to it, but all the finger had been doing all along was stimulating peristalsis, which wasnt working because of the hypo stuff.
I just had blood work done this mornig for ACTH, 8 AM serum cortisol (still waiting for results for a 24 hour saliva test), and we re-did LSH ans FSH to check.
http://musclechatroom.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14250
Perhaps someone could lend him some credible advise.
Hey guys I was referred here by someone over on a thyroid.
Hey guys. I am a 21 year old male. I am 5 10 and weigh 123 pounds (you will find out why so low if you keep reading
)This all started back in my senior year of high school. I ended up getting
mono/hepatits during cross country season without even realizing it. We ran
anywhere from 60-70 miles a week. After the season ended we discovered I had
both of those. After I "recovered", I continued to run on my own (still around
50 miles a week). I always felt tired and continued to make myself run
everyday. I never lost weight or anything, I just never allowed myself to
recover. I also think that while I was eating enough calories I may not have
been getting enough nutrition (the right vitamins/minerals/etc). My energy
continued to slowly decline at a very slow pace. My first year of college I
continued to run 30-40 miles a week for a runners club, and also lifted weights
6 times a week. Along with the weight lifting I began taking these pre-workout
nitric oxide/energy drinks that are loaded with caffeine and other stimulants
(and continued to take them every day up until maybe a month or so ago, so for 2-3 years!). By
the next year I no longer had enough energy to run much anymore, but I
continued to lift and take the pre-workout energy drinks. THe following summer
is when I developed the bad constipation. I never got over it and for the past 2
years I have had to use my finger in the morning to stimulate a bowel movement
(otherwise I dont go for 4-5 days). Nothing I have done has fixed my symptoms, not going dairy or gluten free, using
digestive enzymes, supplementing with magnesium/selenium/zinc, eating lots of
raw veggies an fruit, cultured fermented veggies, coconut oil, raw butter, not even colonics. The colonoscopy and endoscopy ruled out any thing wrong in the intestines and stomach itself, no celiacs, no cancer/diverticuli/etc, healthy vili. Anal rectal manometry and bio feedback indicate nothing I wrong with the way I have a bowel movement either. Now all along I have been treating the
constipation as the cause of my fatigue/sluggishness, dry skin, non existent sex
drive, difficulty getting erections, very weak erections, almost no semen production, low body temp (around 96.9/97 in mornigs-97.4 or so in he afternoon and at night...but stable, doesnt wildly fluctuate), etc. However, after reading online about thyroid and
adrenal problems I think the constipation is just another symptom.
I went to my docs and they drew some blood. My TSH was 6.01 (0.27-4.20), and my free t4 was 1.030 (1.01-1.79).
IGG 875.5 (700-1600)
IGA 112.4 (70-400)
IGM 199.3 (40-230) WHat do these represent?
Thyroglobul AB <20 (<20)
thyroid per AB <10 (<35)
They put me on trial of syntrhroid and after about 2 months of 50 mcg a day then 2 months of 100 mcg a day my tesh was at 1.20 and m4 ft4 was up to 1.36. I still had all the symptoms though. I found STTM and began doing research. I tried to get them to look at ft3 an other things but they wouldn't listen.
I have now had mary shomons breakthrough done along with testosterone (total). The results were
Test Name Flag Result Ref Range Units
Glucose 80 65-99 mg/dL
Uric Acid 3.2 2.4-8.2 mg/dL
BUN 26 5-26 mg/dL
Creatinine 0.92 0.76-1.27 mg/dL
eGFR >59 >59 mL/min/1.73
eGFR AfricanAmerican >59 >59 mL/min/1.73
BUN/Creatinine Ratio HIGH 28 8-27
Sodium 140 135-145 mmol/L
Potassium 4.5 3.5-5.2 mmol/L
Chloride 104 97-108 mmol/L
Calcium 9.2 8.7-10.2 mg/dL
Phosphorus 3.6 2.5-4.5 mg/dL
Protein, Total 6.4 6.0-8.5 g/dL
Albumin 4.6 3.5-5.5 g/dL
Globulin, Total 1.8 1.5-4.5 g/dL
A/G Ratio HIGH 2.6 1.1-2.5
Bilirubin, Total 0.5 0.0-1.2 mg/dL
Alkaline Phosphatase, S 83 25-150 IU/L
LDH 144 100-250 IU/L
AST (SGOT) 34 0-40 IU/L
ALT (SGPT) 52 0-55 IU/L
GGT 51 0-65 IU/L
Iron 77 40-155 ug/dL
Cholesterol, Total 159 100-199 mg/dL
Triglycerides 31 0-149 mg/dL
HDL Cholesterol 79 >39 mg/dL
VLDL Cholesterol Cal 6 5-40 mg/dL
LDL Cholesterol Calc 74 0-99 mg/dL
T. Chol/HDL Ratio 2.0 0.0-5.0 ratio units
Estimated CHD Risk < 0.5 0.0-1.0 times avg.
TSH 2.950 0.450-4.500 uIU/mL
Testosterone LOW 115 280-800 ng/dL
LH LOW 0.5 1.7-8.6 mIU/mL
Vitamin D, 25-Hydroxy 37.6 32.0-100.0 ng/mL
T4,Free(Direct) 1.23 0.82-1.77 ng/dL
Prolactin 9.5 4.0-15.2 ng/mL
Estradiol 15.0 7.6-42.6 pg/mL
DHEA-Sulfate 455.3 211.0-492.0 ug/dL
FSH 2.3 1.5-12.4 mIU/mL
Progesterone 0.9 0.2-1.4 ng/mL
Thyroid Peroxidase (TPO) Ab 17 0-34 IU/mL
Triiodothyronine,Free 2.1 2.0-4.4 pg/mL
After only two weeks of being off synthroid my TSH is already going back up, and like I suspected my freet3 is at the very bottom of its range. I am also essentially castrated testosterone wise.
We then did a more detailed testosterone workup and got the following
We got the testosterone workup back and I am worse off then we thought
Name Value Reference Range
TESTOSTERONE<a> 67 241-827
SEX HORM BIND GLOBULIN<a> 40 13-71
CALC. FREE TESTOSTERONE<a> 1.1 6.0-27.0
Reading online it seems having low lh and low fsh along with low testosterone indicates something wrong with the pituitary or hypothalamus. How does this link up with thyroid? And does the fact that I had mono put me at a greater risk of having the hashimotos disease (an could that be causing all my problems?)
Does such a high DHEA-S indicate any adrenal problems? I am doing the salivary cortisol test today and will mail it in tommorow. I don't "feel" as if I have adrenal problems, I can go to the gym 4-5 times a week, and walk 3 miles a day and not feel super fatigued or anything. I have no trouble sleeping, no waking up at night, sleep gives me some energy back, but not as much as it should (though the fact it refreshes me a bit is a good thing...no adrenal exhaustion at least, if anything only mild). The only thing that had me suspecting adrenals as well is my history (running is definitely harsh on adrenals and all the energy/nitric oxide drinks).
My D3 levels were also pretty low but I take a lot of cod liver oil and am good about supplementation. WOuld it be wise to check any other vitamins/minerals to see if there is any degree of malabsorption going on? I am awesome about nutrition and supplementation (magnesium = 800-1000 mg, vit c = 4-5 grams throughout the day, zinc, selenium, b-12, digestive enzymes, probiotics, lots of sea vegetables, granulated kelp, etc).
The worse symptom to me both mentally and physically is the constipation. I just don't get the urge to go for 3 days, sometimes 4, and when I do go I just ont feel like I have a lot of push/power in expelling the crud. It also comes out in soft narrow pellets, so it may just be squeezing past older harder feces.. I need to put back some weight (since the constipation started two years ago I have gone from 135ish to about 123). I am eating very high healthy fats (rich in vitamins too) to keep things as calorie dense as possible while still getting in goo amounts of fruit/veggies/fiber. I also have a thing of meat (lean meat, fatty red meat, or salmon) every day along with a scoop of goat milk or egg white protein powder. I cant gain weight eating close to 3000 calories a day and I dont burn a lot of calories in activities.
I have been giving myself a 64 ounce enema on advice from my colonic lady as well as a naturopath just so I can keep things from stagnating, becuase being constipated sure as shi* (pun intended) wont help my situation. I stopped using my finger because I hought I had gotten my body addicted to it, but all the finger had been doing all along was stimulating peristalsis, which wasnt working because of the hypo stuff.
I just had blood work done this mornig for ACTH, 8 AM serum cortisol (still waiting for results for a 24 hour saliva test), and we re-did LSH ans FSH to check.
http://musclechatroom.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14250
