thunderchild
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I need help.
I'm a male, approx 35 years old. About 2.5 years ago I realised that I was heavily overweight and did at the time what I thought was the correct thing we are all told to do - I started eating "healthily" by cutting out fats and eating less, and I took up exercise (swimming and walking). A year later I had lost the weight but had lost the weight (I now know) too fast and in an unhealthy manner. I ended up underweight, with no sex drive, and often felt very cold.
I have since stopped the cardio exercise and upped my food intake dramatically and I've regained weight (BMI of 22) eating around 3400 calories/day and look "average" weight. However my body has not recovered hormonally. My hormon levels are:
- FSH is <0.3 U/L
- LH is <0.1 U/L
- Serum testosterone is 2.9nmol/L.
Only other abnormal readings from bloods are:
- 0.0/L eosinophil count
- MCH elevated at 33pg.
All these numbers are consistent across several blood tests months apart.
I have been going to an endochrinologist for over a year now with no real progress. I am on testosterone injections to correct that but FSH and LH remain flatlined one year on. I have had an MRI scan (no pituitary gland tumour) and the endo seems to have essentially stopped investigating and is happy just to observe me now with no futher planned treatments or investigations.
I do not sleep well. I get to sleep fine but wake up about 3am and can't get back to sleep. I am so desperate to fix this problem that I am trying to do what is within my power to control - messing with my diet and supplements, which of course is what got me into this situation in the first place.
Does anyone have any advice please?
I'm a male, approx 35 years old. About 2.5 years ago I realised that I was heavily overweight and did at the time what I thought was the correct thing we are all told to do - I started eating "healthily" by cutting out fats and eating less, and I took up exercise (swimming and walking). A year later I had lost the weight but had lost the weight (I now know) too fast and in an unhealthy manner. I ended up underweight, with no sex drive, and often felt very cold.
I have since stopped the cardio exercise and upped my food intake dramatically and I've regained weight (BMI of 22) eating around 3400 calories/day and look "average" weight. However my body has not recovered hormonally. My hormon levels are:
- FSH is <0.3 U/L
- LH is <0.1 U/L
- Serum testosterone is 2.9nmol/L.
Only other abnormal readings from bloods are:
- 0.0/L eosinophil count
- MCH elevated at 33pg.
All these numbers are consistent across several blood tests months apart.
I have been going to an endochrinologist for over a year now with no real progress. I am on testosterone injections to correct that but FSH and LH remain flatlined one year on. I have had an MRI scan (no pituitary gland tumour) and the endo seems to have essentially stopped investigating and is happy just to observe me now with no futher planned treatments or investigations.
I do not sleep well. I get to sleep fine but wake up about 3am and can't get back to sleep. I am so desperate to fix this problem that I am trying to do what is within my power to control - messing with my diet and supplements, which of course is what got me into this situation in the first place.
Does anyone have any advice please?