Just wondering if anyone can help make sense of why this would have gone way downhill.
Since last June I have been consuming more orange juice, milk, gelatin, less meat (but not none), less wheat, avoiding oils entirely, etc. Supplements are mostly a multivitamin (which I took anyway), K2, and just this year sporadic use of cyproheptadine, a liquid pregnenolone/DHEA supplement, a liquid androsterone supplement, progesterone cream. Generally I feel absolutely nothing from most supplements, other than those that have a definite effect like cypro, niacin, etc.
The result seems to be that my androgens have tanked, thyroid is elevated but apparently not doing anything (?) and my waist has grown from ~80-82cm to 94cm.
I haven't been exercising this year since getting some sort of disc injury in December from lifting weights. But I also wasn't exercising regularly when I had the 2017 and 2018 blood tests.
My testosterone has gone from the middle to the bottom of the range:
TSH increased from 1.13 to 1.96 even though Free T3 and Free T4 are at the top of the lab range. Free T3 or T4 weren't tested before, but total T3 was in range (not sure of the value).
Not sure if anything else is relevant, it's mostly right in the middle of the lab ranges.
Cortisol:
Vitamin D:
Iron and CRP:
Lipids, liver/kidney function:
Blood count:
Since last June I have been consuming more orange juice, milk, gelatin, less meat (but not none), less wheat, avoiding oils entirely, etc. Supplements are mostly a multivitamin (which I took anyway), K2, and just this year sporadic use of cyproheptadine, a liquid pregnenolone/DHEA supplement, a liquid androsterone supplement, progesterone cream. Generally I feel absolutely nothing from most supplements, other than those that have a definite effect like cypro, niacin, etc.
The result seems to be that my androgens have tanked, thyroid is elevated but apparently not doing anything (?) and my waist has grown from ~80-82cm to 94cm.
I haven't been exercising this year since getting some sort of disc injury in December from lifting weights. But I also wasn't exercising regularly when I had the 2017 and 2018 blood tests.
My testosterone has gone from the middle to the bottom of the range:
TSH increased from 1.13 to 1.96 even though Free T3 and Free T4 are at the top of the lab range. Free T3 or T4 weren't tested before, but total T3 was in range (not sure of the value).
Not sure if anything else is relevant, it's mostly right in the middle of the lab ranges.
Cortisol:
Vitamin D:
Iron and CRP:
Lipids, liver/kidney function:
Blood count: