Are you taking 0.5 mg ever day? Is it a continuous thing or are you planning to take it for some time onlyIt will probably suppress your T too. But not a big suppression. I don't have much information about how to raise T naturally.
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Are you taking 0.5 mg ever day? Is it a continuous thing or are you planning to take it for some time onlyIt will probably suppress your T too. But not a big suppression. I don't have much information about how to raise T naturally.
Are you taking 0.5 mg ever day? Is it a continuous thing or are you planning to take it for some time only
Starting dose is 0.50mg straight 3 days. 1 day off. Then 3 days again. That's the first week.
It instantly stopped my hair loss.
Now using 0.25 (half pill) mg for EOD - E3D. Sometimes 0.50 again.
Can't see a side effect. I would give it a try.
'IMO there is nothing wrong with these results. Your LH is in range, in pituitary tumors the LH is usually much much higher but let's see what what the other results show. Same with total T levels or DHEA. In tumors, whether of adrenal/pituitary or ectopic origin, the measured steroids are typically very high, often multiples times above top range. The free T is high, which suggests SHBG is low, so if he has not measured it I would ask him to add it to the other tests he is running.
Spironolactone is anti-androgenic and to prescribe it to a person whose total T is barely elevated and without additional evidence of an androgen-producing tumor is nothing short of a crime. If your other results come back normal I would seriously consider suing that doctor or filing a complaint against him.
So i have long beleived that calcitriol and the VDR were the main thing behind Androgenic hairloss.
Even from an evolutionary standpoint.
Most of the time people from very hot areas have better hair. Of course this is a genaralization.
Calcitriol the activated from of d3 has a powerful effect on hair.
Vdr delete rats, grow no hair.
Quick search shows
Dexamethasone Up regulates vdr transcription.
Vitamin D and androgens interact.
Vitamin D is a hormone
And vitamin D helps in prostate cancer.
But its probably not as simple as ingesting tons of vitamin D. Tissue and serum levels are something to look at.
Calcitriol inhibit IL-17a
IL-17a inplicated in psoriasis. When inhibited one man saw tremendous change in his hair. Positive.
So Dexamethasone may be related to that in my opinion as it also inhibit il-17a very well
I was thinkin
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Hey Haidut, the updated results came back..Can you please take a look when you get the chance?
I had reduced my thyroid medication for t4 to once every 2-3 days since it had a higher half life and I thought maybe I have too much in the system. My prolactin is very high which can be caused by a tumor as well or maybe due to high TSH?
Another thing I am wondering is people with High T have Low prolactin and vice versa how can I have both high at the same time? What if prolactin was even higher when the thyroid levels were good? Since T has gone down a bit with increasing TSH, maybe prolactin went down too?
Estradiol - 23 (7-42)
Prolactin - 28 (4-15.2)
Testosterone - 849
Free T - 19.9
FSH - 4.2 (1.5-12.4)
LH-6.4
TSH - 12 (0.45-4.5)
DHEA S - 403
Parathyroid - 23 (15-65)
IGF1- 147 (98-282)
Cholestrol total - 208
Triglycerides -153
Hi Haidut, I switched from t4 to t4+t3..and my t3 is still mid range at 3.0..My TSH went down from 12 to 4 but my prolactin is still at 28 like it was before..Do you think i should be getting a MRI as the doctor suggested? Since my TSH came down but prolactin is still high?I already responded via PM.
Hashimotos is ilkley the issue here
If you are not making enough thyroid the adrenals will over compensate.
You need to take the correct thyroid dose to control the tsh to be around 1.
It is harder with hashis to do this so you will need to focus on diet to help lower inflammation.
I went to see the doctor today as a follow up to my bloodwork.
Since my LH is high and T is also very high without any supplements at the time of this bloodwork other than synthroid, my doctor suspects a pituitary tumor. He has ordered more tests like FSH, Prolactin, estradiol,IGF1. He also prescribed spironolactone 50 mg a day now..I don't think I will be taking it since it's used by transgenders?
I am worried right now and looking for answers. Anyone has idea why T and LH would be so high? High estrogen? Any Peat explanations for this?
I have Hashimotos as well and I wrote this post the other day.
My Bloodwork Over The Last Year, Suffering For 20 Years. Please Help
DHEA S - 441 (138-475) ALWAYS in the top range, suggest adrenal overdrive? Any tips would help..
HbA1c- 5.2..
Test - 1100 (264-900)
Free test - 37.8( 9-26) Testosterone has been very high in the last 2 tests, this time it's 30% over range, is this due to adrenal overdrive? I am worried..
LH- 7.1 ( seems to be a bit high as well)