About 10 or 12 years ago i was having some pretty rough health issues. Lots of testing, blood work, specialists etc.. All is good now, but one thing they discovered on my blood work 12 years ago was my IGF-1 number was above the acceptable range. Not wildily above, but above the range . The doctor said it might indicate a hormone producing tumor. So they did the test again after a year and it was the same number, above acceptable range.. This was a endocrinoglost.. He said because the IGF-1 wasn't raising, it means I likely didn't have a tumor, but he said I should get it checked once a year and if it ever starts going up, especially a jump, that I would need to get a scan done.
That was 10/12 years ago and I've had to go to many different doc's for my trt script since then. Whenever I get a doctor that seems to want to actually be thorough, I mentioned I am supposed to have it tested once a year. They pretty much have shrugged it off and told me I don't need to keep testing it, its nothing etc..
The doctor I saw last week actually went and scanned through my old blood work and brought it up with me, I didn't even bring it up with her. I explained what the endo said and she said I absolutely need to get it looked at... Got my results today and I am at 251 when the range for my age is now 67-217. Its much more above the range than before. IGF-1 ranges get lower as you age from what I see. So at 30 years old, 251 would be within range, but at 45 251 is well out of the range.
I read about high IGF-1 and its usually caused by a tumor in the pituitary gland. I'm pretty sure I don't have this based on the fact that my IGF-1 is bascially holding around the same number. It's not going up.. but its not going down like it is supposed too...
When I read about IGF-1, lots of factors can raise it like intense exercise, higher protien diet, TRT etc.. there's a few things that raise it that I deffiniely do.
I have read the symptoms of higher IGF-1 and I think I may have a couple, but the symptoms are pretty mild I think and I can't honestly attribute them to the higher IGF-1. It seems to be quite complicated as well. IGF-1 is linked to your liver, your insulin etc..
Anyone else run into this?
That was 10/12 years ago and I've had to go to many different doc's for my trt script since then. Whenever I get a doctor that seems to want to actually be thorough, I mentioned I am supposed to have it tested once a year. They pretty much have shrugged it off and told me I don't need to keep testing it, its nothing etc..
The doctor I saw last week actually went and scanned through my old blood work and brought it up with me, I didn't even bring it up with her. I explained what the endo said and she said I absolutely need to get it looked at... Got my results today and I am at 251 when the range for my age is now 67-217. Its much more above the range than before. IGF-1 ranges get lower as you age from what I see. So at 30 years old, 251 would be within range, but at 45 251 is well out of the range.
I read about high IGF-1 and its usually caused by a tumor in the pituitary gland. I'm pretty sure I don't have this based on the fact that my IGF-1 is bascially holding around the same number. It's not going up.. but its not going down like it is supposed too...
When I read about IGF-1, lots of factors can raise it like intense exercise, higher protien diet, TRT etc.. there's a few things that raise it that I deffiniely do.
I have read the symptoms of higher IGF-1 and I think I may have a couple, but the symptoms are pretty mild I think and I can't honestly attribute them to the higher IGF-1. It seems to be quite complicated as well. IGF-1 is linked to your liver, your insulin etc..
Anyone else run into this?