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[argz]

Hey folks. I'm a 27 year old male having a rough last 2-3 years. This forums seems to be one of the best educated groups around.. Here's the basic scoop...

Symptoms: chronic (terrible) insomnia, fatigue, brain fog, muscle loss, poor body fat distribution (skinny-fat), ejaculatory anhedonia (everything "works", but feel no pleasure), intermittent bleeding gums

Drug history: no steriods, took adderall (for the "brain fog" mentioned above) for 2 years (stopped 1 year ago, stopped being able to tolerate it). Currently on nothing but melatonin (every once in a while), ambien maybe 1-2 times a month. Used marijuana 4-5 times (all more than a year ago). Alcohol socially (2-3 times a month)

I've posted my recent blood results below. I'm especially concerned by the hormone results. My IGF-1 levels are well below range, and troubling as I am only 27. My testosterone is also low-normal, from wikipedia I see that it is lower than the average 70 year old male. I also have below range FSH. Seems like something is going on with my pituitary... what do you think?


Complete Blood Count
- All within range (around the middle) except for
Neutrophils 38 (low) (40-74)
Eosinophils 10 (high) (0-7)

Metabolic Panel
- All well within ranges

Lipid Profile (yikes!)
- Cholesterol, Total 250 (high) (100-199)
- Triglycerides 222 (high) (0-149)
- HDL 50 (>39)
- VLDL Cholesterol Cal 44 (high) (5-40)
- LDL Cholesterol Calc 156 (high) (0-99)

Thyroid Panel
- TSH 1.900 (0.45 - 4.500)
- T4 5.8 (4.5-12.0)
- T3 Uptake 39 (24-39)
- Free Thyroxine Index 2.3 (1.2-4.9)

Hormone Levels
- LH 6.0 (1.7-8.6)
- FSH 1.3 (low) (1.5-12.4)
- Prolactin 8.6 (4.0-15.2)
- Testosterone, Serum 416 (249-836)
- Testosterone, Free 10.48 (5.0-21.00)
- % Free Testosterone 2.52 (1.5-4.20)
- PSA 0.2 (0.0-4.0)
- IGF-1 99 (LOW) (117-329)
- Estradiol, sensitive 17 (3-70)

Thanks for any help..

[niner]

What does the doctor who ordered the tests think of these results? It might be worth checking in with an endocrinologist. Your lipid panel suggests that you are eating too many carbs. How's your diet? Do you take any supplements? Exercise? Ever read Dr. William Davis' Track Your Plaque blog? There's some good advice there.

[argz]

I am seeing an endocrinologist soon. Hopefully he will shed some light.

I eat fairly cleanly.. no refined carbs and little bad fats. I take fish oil, multivitamins, vitamin d and vitamin b12 daily.

I do 30 minutes cardio each morning, and alternate between weight training and tennis in the evenings.

2 years ago my cholesterol levels were all normal, and since then I've eaten only better. I'm not sure what's going on.

[MrHappy]

Try taking 2g of L-arginine and 4g of vitamin c daily for 2 weeks and see how you go.

If you have HSV-1 or 2, this will likely lead to breakouts, though.

[sam7777]

Something is not right with your liver. You need to do detox regimes. You definitely have an overburdened liver. One way or another it is not helping the hormone/endocrine problems. IGF-1 being low probably says a lot about adhedonia. Your colon probably needs a lot of detox.

Better read up on Autism/mercury chelation/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Lot of information on liver care.

[bacopa]

have you checked for amalgam toxicity? I was chronically sleep deprived for almost 6 years, now I realized it was grinding down my 50% mercury amalgam tooth fillings...

So I already have had success, just using my mouth guard...and high doses of vit C, and some others...if you have "silver" fillings, which is basically bullshit for 50% mercury bonded with two other metals, than check out Andy Cutler google him, he wrote amalgam illness..mercury can mess with every organ and mineral transport system and wreck neurons, some say actual brain damage, but others say it just interferes with thinking, well to the point many become unable to think period, unitl they get them out, and safely chelate...

I have read all kinds of success stories, on list serves doing the Andy cutler protocal, but a good rule of thumb is if you have a lot of metal in your teeth, then it could be from the mercury. Insomnia horrific chronic insomnia is one obvious indicator.

it's also not quackery, and you can get a hair test, and indirectly read your mercury and other heavy metal levels, mercury gets stored in tissues so it does not show up easily on any test, but if it gets to that point I can help you with list serves and links.

Edited by dfowler, 04 January 2012 - 09:47 PM.

[tham]

You should upload your full blood test.

What is your ESR ?


Your marginally low neutropenia and moderately
high eosinophilia should at a glance suggest either
a viral (most probably) /parasitic/bacterial infection,
autoimmune/allergic condition or chronic fatigue syndrome.

EBV, which is linked with CFS, immediately comes to mind.


http://www.doctorslo...opic-24657.html

http://www.medicinen...age2.htm#causes

http://www.netdoctor...osinophilia.htm

http://www.aacijourn.../content/4/2/84


" Infections, most often viral but also bacterial or rickettsial,
can lower the polymorphonuclear count. "

http://www.ncbi.nlm....v/books/NBK261/

http://www.buzzle.co...phil-count.html

http://www.buzzle.co...ymphocytes.html

http://www.doctorslo...opic-29186.html


A very good answer :

" Causes of eosinophilia are parasitic/helminthic infections,
HIV, drug hypersensitivity, cancer, lymphomas, and primary
allergic disorders. The most common being parasitic or
allergic disorders. One explaination of your neutrophils
being low is that they have CHRONICALLY been fighting off
one of the eosinophilia causes, if it was an acute problem then
you would have seen the neutrophils being elevated. "

http://au.answers.ya...02123511AAwMMkY

[tham]

Symptoms: chronic (terrible) insomnia, fatigue, brain fog,
muscle loss, poor body fat distribution (skinny-fat), ejaculatory
anhedonia (everything "works", but feel no pleasure),
intermittent bleeding gums.

" HCMV and HSV were both significant predictors of the presence
of subgingival P. gingivalis. In turn, P. gingivalis was positively
associated with periodontitis active disease, probing attachment
level, probing pocket depth, gingival bleeding upon probing and
patient age. EBV-1 was not linked to P. gingivalis, although the
virus was predictive of periodontitis active disease. "


http://www.ncbi.nlm....t_uids=12753371



" The periodontium may serve as a reservoir for CMV
and a source of viral replication. "

http://www.joponline...2005.76.12.2306

[F.L.U.]

What you really need is to change your attitude to everything in your life, reconsider what you feel about others, what you do, how you react to life circumstances. I can give you a link to a site that can be helpful. send message.

[AnomalT]

The first thing I noticed about your test results was obviously the high cholesterol. Wow.

Then the next thing that looked odd was your high rate of T3 uptake along with borderline low levels of T4 meaning that your body is converting that inactive T4 into usable T3 thyroid hormone faster than your body can produce it. Although your TSH is "in range", TSH is often a poor indicator of thyroid function despite the belief of most medical professionals.

So what I take away from these results I'd say you are having hypothyroid symptoms, probably due to a pituitary malfunction, though I'm not a doctor and can't say for sure. One of the symptoms of hypothyroidism is increased cholesterol levels.

Have you been tested for thyroid antibodies (peroxidase, thyroglobulin)? http://labtestsonlin...bodies/tab/test

[panhedonic]

argz? you there?