Adrenal fatigue and testosterone 
feemanbe
11 y
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Hello everyone, this is my first post here (I think) :-). I have been dealing with chronic fatigue for around two years now. It all started with a bad cocktail of anabolic abuse (bodybuilding), working night shifts, having high stress life. Then I suffered an emotional trauma in thinking I caught Hiv from a nasty prostitute, which eventually I didn't (got tested many many times, up until 13 months after the incident, still negative.) So the physical/emotional stress has got me to suffer from hpa dysfunction (not cfs) involving severe fatigue, lethargy, ringing ears. What I have come up with through blood testing so far is the following: high acth, low to normal cortisol, extremely low dhea, low pregnenolone, low to normal testosterone. I have been taking low dose pregnenolone and dhea but this didn't make my levels rise or alleviate my symptoms. My new doc who is quite familiar with the condition (wrote book about it) has upped my dosage of dhea to 70mg and 100mgof pregnenolone.Fine with that but now he wants me to also use transdermal testosterone to up my levels. I have heard of testosterone exacerbating adrenal fatigue if overdone,any ideas on this? Oh yes, my thyroid seems fine in labs, but I do show very low shbg. Thanks
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- Re: Adrenal fatigue and testosterone hawskfan9325
11 y
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MoreThis is a reply to # 2,081,247How was your cortisol measured? Post your labs here. Post Test labs too. Both Free and Total.
- Re: Adrenal fatigue and testosterone feemanbe
11 y
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MoreThis is a reply to # 2,081,3008h Cortisol was low-normal, don't have exact numbers yet. Preg and DHEA were rock bottom, no need to say I feel like crap. doc thinks my energy issues are mostly due to previous anabolic abuse, gonad trouble mostly, but also involving stressors, resulting in adrenal fatigue. Testosterone on last labs was around 450 but my shbg is always very low (ranging between 9 and 20 mostly), resulting in very high Free Test. E2 is well in range though (20), so that is not my issue. I have NO libido issues, only energy problems. Protocol is now 100mg preg (50 didn't raise levels) and 70mg of DHEA (35 didn't raise levels). Thanks for some opinions. Regards from Belgium.
- Re: Adrenal fatigue and testosterone feemanbe
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- Re: Adrenal fatigue and testosterone Lermentov
11 y
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This is a reply to # 2,081,247Hello,
I am new here. My story is very similar to yours.I am a 35 yr old guy. My symptoms started 3 years ago when I started having muscle pulling sensation in my face and I panicked thinking I am getting a stroke. I was 32 at that time. I was so stressed thinking that I have some unknown diesease and started fixating on that for 3 weeks.And then all the other symptoms like, random muscle aches, brainfog, unrefreshed sleep,floaters, general sense of being ill started. So started the routine of going from doctors to doctors and they found nothing for a year ,Finally they found my testosterone to be too low. So i went on shots and recovered immediately to preillness .But usually crashed after 3 -4 weeks. And eventually the shots did nothing for me. Thats when I decided to see an integrative health practisioner and he foind throgh 24hr urine test my cortisol was in the low side. Mine was 12 and reference range was 4-50.So I think all my symptoms can be tied to hormonal imbalance. The suffering this 3 yrs is really bad, I had times of no symptoms on and off when i get testo shots .But does not work always. So finally doctor is testing my dhea,pregosterone,E2 and a whole buch of others. Waiting for resutls. I am seeing him Aug 8th agian. Also he is giving me ammino acid shots . I am really confused on the root cause of my intermittent symptoms. Symptoms last for months at time even with testo shots. This doctor wants me to come off of testo shots. Sorry I threw lot of information here. hope to discuss more here
- Re: Adrenal fatigue and testosterone hawskfan9325
11 y
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