Hi guys,
I'm sorry to bother you with a question I'm certain has been asked. I am a 29 year old female with Hashimotos. I recently started NDT but continue to feel shitty. My Endocrinolgist would like to put me on testosterone, based on my lab work below- and I'm curious if that's a poor idea. However, I have the symptoms of low testosterone -malaise, low motivation, low sex drive- but I'm young and a little confused why this could be so low. Any thoughts or suggestions would be so helpful! Thank you guys for such a wonderful community.
Female-Hashimotos-29 years old- taking desiccated thryoid-thyroid levels have normalized.
Testosterone Serum - 15 ng/dl
Bioavailable Testosterone- 2.2 ng/dl
Bioavailable Testosterone %- 14.8%
Sex Hormone Binding Globulin- 106.2 nmol/L
Aldosterone- it says greater than 1.0 (I don't understand this, but I'm told it's very low)
Ferritin- 17 ng/ml (Won't be supplementing this obviously)
Plasma Renin Activity- 0.591 ng/ml/h
I'm sorry to bother you with a question I'm certain has been asked. I am a 29 year old female with Hashimotos. I recently started NDT but continue to feel shitty. My Endocrinolgist would like to put me on testosterone, based on my lab work below- and I'm curious if that's a poor idea. However, I have the symptoms of low testosterone -malaise, low motivation, low sex drive- but I'm young and a little confused why this could be so low. Any thoughts or suggestions would be so helpful! Thank you guys for such a wonderful community.
Female-Hashimotos-29 years old- taking desiccated thryoid-thyroid levels have normalized.
Testosterone Serum - 15 ng/dl
Bioavailable Testosterone- 2.2 ng/dl
Bioavailable Testosterone %- 14.8%
Sex Hormone Binding Globulin- 106.2 nmol/L
Aldosterone- it says greater than 1.0 (I don't understand this, but I'm told it's very low)
Ferritin- 17 ng/ml (Won't be supplementing this obviously)
Plasma Renin Activity- 0.591 ng/ml/h