I'm new here and I was reading through the forums but they didn't really answer my questions. I apologize if this turns in to a long read but I seriously need help.
So here's the deal, I'm a 5'9, 19 y/o male. 3 years ago I weighed 184, I was overweight, but active. I played soccer and tennis in high school. By the summer of 2013 I lost 30 pounds and eventually settled at 160. Despite this, I still had a pot belly as well as gyno. I got the gyno removed a week before my 18th birthday. Now that it was was gone, I decided to lose the rest of the weight. I had been lifting for year so I figured I would look better. 3 months of dieting and I lost 2 pounds of water, which I knew was water because it would fluctuate back to 160, and I tried so hard to lose just 10 pounds. So January 2016 comes along, I'm 160 lbs and still look the same. Since then I've gained 24 pounds, with a pot belly, but with definition on the rest of my body.
Over the past few months I've been back and forth with doctors and blood work. Everything is normal except for two things: Estradiol and FSH.
Estradiol: 40 pg/ml; Ref. Range: < or =39
FSH: <0.7 mlU/ml: Ref. Range: 1.6-8.0
This Friday I have an appointment to have blood drawn for testosterone.
I suspected something was wrong with my hormones. Now that I have the results, I realized I have a lot of the symptoms that I would just brush off.
My questions are, what if my doctor refuses to treat me with TRT for the low FSH? Or refuses to treat Estradiol? Should someone my age, with clear signs of hormonal imbalances, be treated with TRT?
So here's the deal, I'm a 5'9, 19 y/o male. 3 years ago I weighed 184, I was overweight, but active. I played soccer and tennis in high school. By the summer of 2013 I lost 30 pounds and eventually settled at 160. Despite this, I still had a pot belly as well as gyno. I got the gyno removed a week before my 18th birthday. Now that it was was gone, I decided to lose the rest of the weight. I had been lifting for year so I figured I would look better. 3 months of dieting and I lost 2 pounds of water, which I knew was water because it would fluctuate back to 160, and I tried so hard to lose just 10 pounds. So January 2016 comes along, I'm 160 lbs and still look the same. Since then I've gained 24 pounds, with a pot belly, but with definition on the rest of my body.
Over the past few months I've been back and forth with doctors and blood work. Everything is normal except for two things: Estradiol and FSH.
Estradiol: 40 pg/ml; Ref. Range: < or =39
FSH: <0.7 mlU/ml: Ref. Range: 1.6-8.0
This Friday I have an appointment to have blood drawn for testosterone.
I suspected something was wrong with my hormones. Now that I have the results, I realized I have a lot of the symptoms that I would just brush off.
My questions are, what if my doctor refuses to treat me with TRT for the low FSH? Or refuses to treat Estradiol? Should someone my age, with clear signs of hormonal imbalances, be treated with TRT?
