Douglas Ek
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Hi everyone!
I've come here to ask about peoples opinion regarding some blood work i've done and symptoms that i have.
So to start my symptoms are following:
Fatigue
Restless legs
Bit depressed
Low libido
Joint stiffness
Cold hands and feet
So I've done some blood work to find out if there's something wrong with me and this is basically what I've found out:
Iron - 12 mikromol/L Ref range: (9-34 mikromol/L)
Ferritin - 53 mikrog/L Ref range: (30-350 mikrog/L)
Ceruloplasmin - 0.16 g/L Ref range: (0.15 - 0.30 g/L)
Zinc - 12 mikromol/L Ref range: (10-17 mikromol/L)
Hormones:
T4, free 19 pmol/L Ref range: (12-22 pmol/L)
TSH 3.0 mE/L Ref range: (0,3-4,2 mE/L)
DHEA 7.1 mikromol/L Ref range: (4,3-12 mikromol/L)
Vitamin D:
S-25-OH Vitamin D 123 nmol/L Ref range: (50-250 nmol/L)
Supplements I've taken in the past are a lot of Zinc because I thought first I was testosterone deficient. I have tested my testosterone now but haven't gotten the results yet. I will post as soon as i get em. I did minimum 30mg Zinc Picolinate/day and sometimes dosages up to 200mg Zinc. What i tended to notice was that higher zinc dosages started giving me more fatigue and joint aches. For some reason I didn't make the connection but now in hindsight I think that I was lowering my copper levels since zinc and copper are antagonists of each other. Once I started to read up on it I realized that zinc might have been the cause of my symptoms. Before i did this test I've posted now I quit zinc supplements completely and have been taking 4mg copper bisglycinate and 18mg or heme iron for like a week. Don't know if this would have brought up my iron and ceruloplasmin levels at the test but if it would have then my iron and ceruloplasmin might have flagged under the reference range. Also would like to mention that the fatigue and joint aches has gotten better since I started supplementing with iron and copper. But I was suprised to see that my Zinc levels weren't really that high either.
What is your opinion?
Should I keep on taking the copper and iron for awhile and stop the zinc see if I feel better and then go test my levels again?
Are these levels low enough to cause these symptoms? I know copper and ceruloplasmin is involved in ATP and energy production as well as iron is in oxygen so wouldn't be far fetched that it could be the cause?
Thanks guys!
Kind regards,
Doug
I've come here to ask about peoples opinion regarding some blood work i've done and symptoms that i have.
So to start my symptoms are following:
Fatigue
Restless legs
Bit depressed
Low libido
Joint stiffness
Cold hands and feet
So I've done some blood work to find out if there's something wrong with me and this is basically what I've found out:
Iron - 12 mikromol/L Ref range: (9-34 mikromol/L)
Ferritin - 53 mikrog/L Ref range: (30-350 mikrog/L)
Ceruloplasmin - 0.16 g/L Ref range: (0.15 - 0.30 g/L)
Zinc - 12 mikromol/L Ref range: (10-17 mikromol/L)
Hormones:
T4, free 19 pmol/L Ref range: (12-22 pmol/L)
TSH 3.0 mE/L Ref range: (0,3-4,2 mE/L)
DHEA 7.1 mikromol/L Ref range: (4,3-12 mikromol/L)
Vitamin D:
S-25-OH Vitamin D 123 nmol/L Ref range: (50-250 nmol/L)
Supplements I've taken in the past are a lot of Zinc because I thought first I was testosterone deficient. I have tested my testosterone now but haven't gotten the results yet. I will post as soon as i get em. I did minimum 30mg Zinc Picolinate/day and sometimes dosages up to 200mg Zinc. What i tended to notice was that higher zinc dosages started giving me more fatigue and joint aches. For some reason I didn't make the connection but now in hindsight I think that I was lowering my copper levels since zinc and copper are antagonists of each other. Once I started to read up on it I realized that zinc might have been the cause of my symptoms. Before i did this test I've posted now I quit zinc supplements completely and have been taking 4mg copper bisglycinate and 18mg or heme iron for like a week. Don't know if this would have brought up my iron and ceruloplasmin levels at the test but if it would have then my iron and ceruloplasmin might have flagged under the reference range. Also would like to mention that the fatigue and joint aches has gotten better since I started supplementing with iron and copper. But I was suprised to see that my Zinc levels weren't really that high either.
What is your opinion?
Should I keep on taking the copper and iron for awhile and stop the zinc see if I feel better and then go test my levels again?
Are these levels low enough to cause these symptoms? I know copper and ceruloplasmin is involved in ATP and energy production as well as iron is in oxygen so wouldn't be far fetched that it could be the cause?
Thanks guys!
Kind regards,
Doug