Post stats. Do research then do some more research. So many things could be causing low levels. I understand you feel like crap but you should be smart about this. Do some more fing research also because you display that the most you did was look up that lab to purchase your questionable gear.
Hey Kozmo, thank you for the reply. Here is a little background. I'm 44 years old. I have always been active in martial arts and the gym. Not crazy lifting for huge gains, but for nice moderate increases in strength for my jiujitsu. I hovered right around the the 175-180 lb mark. At 6 feet tall, that wasn't too bad. I was in fairly good shape. I trained fighters in the area, I ran, I dated alot, I traveled, I worked. Pretty normal stuff. Then out of nowhere I started losing steam. Couldn't focus, couldn't concentrate, weig hr started increasing and strength started decreasing. Evething was falling apart. After about two years of this, and 30 pounds around the midsection popping up out of nowhere, I decided to talk to my doctor. He ran blood tests and showed my testosterone to be at 215. I said "well that's got to be it!". He asked me about my exercise, if I had ever had any injuries. I told him about painful groin shots and a couple times I had been knocked loopy in the gym and two crazy liver shots that ended my training for the night. He said that my T levels were normal. I thought he was going to talk about how low they were. We discussed that the reference group consisted of me, and a thousand vets that were suffering from the same thing or were 90 years old. So of course they were "normal". And then I dropped it because it was going nowhere. That was 3 years ago. I have been reading as much as I can every day and every week since then. The only reason I bought the stuff I did is because a guy I worked with swore by it and it was from his regular supplier. I have been looking at this bottle for 2 months now. Still researching. Still looking for good labs. And trying to determine if this stuff is legit and if this is really the way to go. I haven't decided to take it yet (probably wont), but having it here makes me FEEL like I'm making steps to get things better. Which for me lately has been tough to do.
Current stats are:
6'0. 223 pounds, not exactly fat ass but not a good looking 223. Probably 20 percent body fat. I eat something about 5 times a day. Whether a small turkey sandwhich, some peanut butter crackers, 2 ehgs, diced turkey and cheese, or whatever to keep the tank full. I drink water (sometimes regular old water and sometimes my fruit or mint and green tea infused home brew water), coffee, or V8 juice. I don't drink alcohol except the occasional beer. So my diet seems pretty conducive to weight loss or at least stabilization. Activities are a 1 mile walk with my wife and baby in the morning, training with my wife in jiujitsu and boxing for about an hour in the afternoon, along with the usual body weight exercises and isometric stuff around the house, and soccer at the fields when we can get away. The missing ingredient is the energy and the sense of well being. Workino out and exercise used to make me so happy.
My other panels came back on point. Thyroid, liver, kidney, heck they even checked me for masses or tumors in my peanut shaped dome, just to find the cause of it all. I come back to testosterone. He comes back to "we all get older, man. You can't be young forever". As if these things are some sort of blessingthat shows how much older and wiser we are now. Anyway...baby is in bed finally and I have rambled enough. Time to go toss and turn in bed.
I DO appreciate what you have said and will continue to research everything. But based upon what you have heard (I know you guys aren't doctors, but just looking for opinions from those smarter than me about such things), what would YOU say the likely culprit is?
