I won't go all dear diary in here for my first post, but basically I'm 27 years old and I've been feeling like shit for the last 7 years. I don't eat junk food. I eat relatively clean and lift 3-4 times a week. I'm 5'11, 170lbs, ~12%bf. I've never cycled anything before, whether it be AAS or prohormones or whatever else, I'm not on any pharmaceuticals legal or otherwise. I don't smoke.
Last time when I first started feeling a bit off, I got my test levels checked was when I was 20. The GP said it was in the normal range and didn't tell me the actual values. I didn't know any better so I left it at that. Normal is normal. I figured that it was probably nothing and let it be without pursuing the matter further. Fast forward 7 years and still no improvement. In fact, it's been getting worse every year. Bad sleep, no energy, lack of motivation, low strength gains at the gym with diet and progressive overload, morning wood once a month or less, low sex drive, yadda yadda.
Finally I decided that maybe it's time to do something about feeling shitty and ordered a basic hormone blood test (female hormone panel from private md labs but specified that I was male, clearly) to find out if maybe that could be a problem. I got the following results:
Testosterone, serum: 494 (348-1197 ng/dL)
LH: 4.8 (1.7-8.6 mIU/mL)
FSH: 3.2 (1.5-12.4 mIU/mL)
Estradiol: 16.9 (7.6-42.6 pg/mL)
Should I have specified that I was in fact "female" based on the results? (just kidding). According to the widely circulated site that shows average test levels and age, I should probably be 67-70 yeards old. Could that be the culprit? So, what do now?
Last time when I first started feeling a bit off, I got my test levels checked was when I was 20. The GP said it was in the normal range and didn't tell me the actual values. I didn't know any better so I left it at that. Normal is normal. I figured that it was probably nothing and let it be without pursuing the matter further. Fast forward 7 years and still no improvement. In fact, it's been getting worse every year. Bad sleep, no energy, lack of motivation, low strength gains at the gym with diet and progressive overload, morning wood once a month or less, low sex drive, yadda yadda.
Finally I decided that maybe it's time to do something about feeling shitty and ordered a basic hormone blood test (female hormone panel from private md labs but specified that I was male, clearly) to find out if maybe that could be a problem. I got the following results:
Testosterone, serum: 494 (348-1197 ng/dL)
LH: 4.8 (1.7-8.6 mIU/mL)
FSH: 3.2 (1.5-12.4 mIU/mL)
Estradiol: 16.9 (7.6-42.6 pg/mL)
Should I have specified that I was in fact "female" based on the results? (just kidding). According to the widely circulated site that shows average test levels and age, I should probably be 67-70 yeards old. Could that be the culprit? So, what do now?
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