Low thyroid Hormone and worst cholesterol the Doc has ever seen !

[CoolRick]

How long have you been eating this way? Would be interesting to see how it plays out over a couple years.

I'd also be interested to see how a doctor could confirm this for you... You can get your insulin tested. That might help? But it would have to be cross referenced to what you just ate.. Wonder if a glucose tolerance test would show anything?

About 3 weeks since dialing it in. I'd steadily increase my carbs and take the appropriate amount of insulin to match it. I was not really eating before for reasons I won't get into so naturally I gained weight as I ate more but I didn't just blow up and get fat. I'd notice the neuropathy symptoms would coincide with dropping my carbs or fasting. So it was definitely not chronic and I'm doing much better being routinized as I was when I was bodybuilding.

I had my insulin tested a couple years ago.. It came back on the very low end of the acceptable range. I asked the doctor "if I constantly have high blood sugar, shouldn't my insulin be anywhere but on the low end because I should be secreting inslulin in order to bring my blood sugar down?"... That doctor didn't know what to say or think and said they'd refer me to an endo.. but this was during 2022/covid so no endo appoinbment ever happened.

Precisely why I can't be bothered to waste my time with them. I figured out my problem relatively quickly and accurately by doing the opposite of the standard diabetic advice which is lower your carbs and small meals etc. I can't see a doc figuring out what I need to be as finely tuned as I want to be with just a snapshot of my blood work.

My situation is atypical but not unheard of, so they'd probably figure it out given enough time and with an open mind.

 

[animal-inside]

About 3 weeks since dialing it in. I'd steadily increase my carbs and take the appropriate amount of insulin to match it. I was not really eating before for reasons I won't get into so naturally I gained weight as I ate more but I didn't just blow up and get fat. I'd notice the neuropathy symptoms would coincide with dropping my carbs or fasting. So it was definitely not chronic and I'm doing much better being routinized as I was when I was bodybuilding.

Do you think you need to take insulin to manage things from here going forward? Or only if you are wanting to continue bodybuilding/training etc which requires more food/carbs etc.. ?

When you cut carbs/fast/ not eat, what happened to your body composition? I understnad you'd get the bad synptoms, but curious what happened to your composition.

Precisely why I can't be bothered to waste my time with them. I figured out my problem relatively quickly and accurately by doing the opposite of the standard diabetic advice which is lower your carbs and small meals etc. I can't see a doc figuring out what I need to be as finely tuned as I want to be with just a snapshot of my blood work.

My situation is atypical but not unheard of, so they'd probably figure it out given enough time and with an open mind.

if I was in your shoes, I'd want to go those tests just for myself.. regardless of what dr say, would be interestig to see how your results would be.

 

[CoolRick]

Do you think you need to take insulin to manage things from here going forward? Or only if you are wanting to continue bodybuilding/training etc which requires more food/carbs etc.. ?

When you cut carbs/fast/ not eat, what happened to your body composition? I understnad you'd get the bad synptoms, but curious what happened to your composition.






if I was in your shoes, I'd want to go those tests just for myself.. regardless of what dr say, would be interestig to see how your results would be.

As it stands I'll need insulin to be optimal/ healthy regardless of bodybuilding or fitness. I have a couple risk factors that are against me that increased my risk of being diabetic, namely gestational diabetes and my ethnic background. It's not a huge surprise but it is disappointing as I've done so much to take care of myself over the years and needing insulin makes me feel like I was born defective. Truthfully, I probably needed it as a 150lb teenager.

I've lost interest in bodybuilding and PEDs as a whole and as it sits there's a good chance I won't be doing it anymore. At the very least I'd be seriously redefining what I use, how I train and what I train for. Long story short, I don't really want to be big anymore.

My best bet in my view is to utilize insulin + carbs to get my metabolism where it should have been the whole time, and allow my body to heal from the elevated BG. Mind you, I never saw it above say 6.8mmol, but my body is sensitive as hell. This way I'm thriving instead of just surviving. Then carb cycle and get down to a much lower body fat to (hopefully) lower my dependance on exogenous insulin.

Naturally with a serious deficit, I lost muscle and a bit of fat, but mostly muscle. I will say my body is extremely good at surviving on small amounts of food. There were times I would eat 800-1200cal per day.

I will get things checked when I'm due for my next physical, but I'm pretty sure if I checked now my A1C is probably jacked up due to the last few months of fasting and what not.

 

[Devson]

So I just got bloods done and I haven't been on anything Fun Anabolic Androgenic for well over a year now and for the past 3 or 4 months I feel so shity everything seems like it's in slow motion and my entire body is in pain overload feet back shoulders chest pain headaches and zero Limbidos ! Well I had a big chat with my Doctor and he told me my thyroid is extremely low in my boots low when he said this to me I was Like Holy Fuck ! I asked him can low thyroid cause severe never pain ?
His answer was Yes !
Then I asked him can low thyroid cause chest pain and achey joints ?
He said yes and it can also cause high cholesterol Low thyroid contributes to lowering good cholesterol and raising bad cholesterols ! Not only that but it makes you lethargic as fuck and it tanks your libido's like it or not ! And that is never good because if you got a hungry chick she could take it personal and think you don't got the hotts for her any more and that's not good ! I am all ready on thyroid meds 250 mg so he has upped that to 275 mgs and he has given me a script of statin meds called Rosuvustatin 10 mg I heard statins are garbage for you and can fuck you up and make Testosterone tank and other meds not work or some shit haven't researched why yet but I will get on it
I want to try red rice yeast and citrus bergamot out first and also cut carbs completely from my diet ! In 6 weeks I go for more blood work I guess it is time to be more vigilant about my health and not so reckless as fuck !

Add vitamin c and get lysine from your whey while taking citrus bergamot. I've shot down my lipids fast and my doctor told me to maybe go easier next time lol. I ate barely and oats, low fat diet, no red meat, not sure and don't care if that matters.

You didn't really go into your thyroid meds much. Are you not on T4 or some form of combination therapy? Good to know that improper thyroid levels can do that to someone. I know it can make you send bipolar or depressed.

 

[Mad Zuiki]

Add vitamin c and get lysine from your whey while taking citrus bergamot. I've shot down my lipids fast and my doctor told me to maybe go easier next time lol. I ate barely and oats, low fat diet, no red meat, not sure and don't care if that matters.

You didn't really go into your thyroid meds much. Are you not on T4 or some form of combination therapy? Good to know that improper thyroid levels can do that to someone. I know it can make you send bipolar or depressed.

Meds are Synthroid Levothyroxine at 250 MG's a day