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Hello community. I am a 31 M, who exercise regularly (3-4 x/week) and try to eat healthy with good amount of protein, fats and carbs. For the past few months, I have been experiencing fatigue, muscle weakness, almost zero libido, my morning wood is also a rare event and I cannot sustain my erections. I don’t have energy to perform in the gym as well, it is becoming hard to lift the same weights i used to lift easily. So I got my hormones checked recently, and these are the results:

DHEAS: 8.61 µmol/L — Reference: 4.34–12.2 µmol/L
DHEAS: 3168 µg/L — Reference: 1597–4490µg/L
SHBG: 21.7 nmol/L — Reference: 18.3–54.1 nmol/L
Free Testosterone: 152 pmol/L — Reference: 174–729 pmol/L ↓
Total Testosterone: 6.41 nmol/L — Reference: 8.64–29.0 nmol/L ↓
Total Testosterone: 1.8 µg/L — Reference: 2.49–8.36 µg/L ↓
Free Androgen Index (FAI): 29.5 — Reference: 35.0–92.6 ↓
FSH: 3.0 IU/L — Reference: 1.5–12.4 IU/L
LH: 3.0 IU/L — Reference: 1.7–8.6 IU/L
LH/FSH Ratio: 1.0 — Male reference: not established
Prolactin: 121 mIU/L — Reference: 86–324 mIU/L
Estradiol: 52.6 pmol/L — Reference: 41.4–159 pmol/L
Estradiol: 14.4 pg/mL — Reference: 11.3–43.2 pg/mL

My free and total testosterone are very low. It’s very difficult to get an appointment of an endocrinologist where I live, the waiting time is 3-4 months. What is going on with my hormones? Did anyone experienced something like this? And how did you fix it?

Hello community. I am a 31 M, who exercise regularly (3-4 x/week) and try to eat healthy with good amount of protein, fats and carbs. For the past few months, I have been experiencing fatigue, muscle weakness, almost zero libido, my morning wood is also a rare event and I cannot sustain my erections. I don’t have energy to perform in the gym as well, it is becoming hard to lift the same weights i used to lift easily. So I got my hormones checked recently, and these are the results:

DHEAS: 8.61 µmol/L — Reference: 4.34–12.2 µmol/L
DHEAS: 3168 µg/L — Reference: 1597–4490µg/L
SHBG: 21.7 nmol/L — Reference: 18.3–54.1 nmol/L
Free Testosterone: 152 pmol/L — Reference: 174–729 pmol/L ↓
Total Testosterone: 6.41 nmol/L — Reference: 8.64–29.0 nmol/L ↓
Total Testosterone: 1.8 µg/L — Reference: 2.49–8.36 µg/L ↓
Free Androgen Index (FAI): 29.5 — Reference: 35.0–92.6 ↓
FSH: 3.0 IU/L — Reference: 1.5–12.4 IU/L
LH: 3.0 IU/L — Reference: 1.7–8.6 IU/L
LH/FSH Ratio: 1.0 — Male reference: not established
Prolactin: 121 mIU/L — Reference: 86–324 mIU/L
Estradiol: 52.6 pmol/L — Reference: 41.4–159 pmol/L
Estradiol: 14.4 pg/mL — Reference: 11.3–43.2 pg/mL

My free and total testosterone are very low. It’s very difficult to get an appointment of an endocrinologist where I live, the waiting time is 3-4 months. What is going on with my hormones? Did anyone experienced something like this? And how did you fix it?

Hello community. I am a 31 M, who exercise regularly (3-4 x/week) and try to eat healthy with good amount of protein, fats and carbs. For the past few months, I have been experiencing fatigue, muscle weakness, almost zero libido, my morning wood is also a rare event and I cannot sustain my erections. I don’t have energy to perform in the gym as well, it is becoming hard to lift the same weights i used to lift easily. So I got my hormones checked recently, and these are the results:

DHEAS: 8.61 µmol/L — Reference: 4.34–12.2 µmol/L
DHEAS: 3168 µg/L — Reference: 1597–4490µg/L
SHBG: 21.7 nmol/L — Reference: 18.3–54.1 nmol/L
Free Testosterone: 152 pmol/L — Reference: 174–729 pmol/L ↓
Total Testosterone: 6.41 nmol/L — Reference: 8.64–29.0 nmol/L ↓
Total Testosterone: 1.8 µg/L — Reference: 2.49–8.36 µg/L ↓
Free Androgen Index (FAI): 29.5 — Reference: 35.0–92.6 ↓
FSH: 3.0 IU/L — Reference: 1.5–12.4 IU/L
LH: 3.0 IU/L — Reference: 1.7–8.6 IU/L
LH/FSH Ratio: 1.0 — Male reference: not established
Prolactin: 121 mIU/L — Reference: 86–324 mIU/L
Estradiol: 52.6 pmol/L — Reference: 41.4–159 pmol/L
Estradiol: 14.4 pg/mL — Reference: 11.3–43.2 pg/mL

My free and total testosterone are very low. It’s very difficult to get an appointment of an endocrinologist where I live, the waiting time is 3-4 months. What is going on with my hormones? Did anyone experienced something like this? And how did you fix it?

Hey guys,

I’m 31M and I’ve been dealing with something a bit weird lately, so I wanted to get some honest outside opinions.

Lately I’ve been feeling very low on motivation and mental drive. It’s not like sadness or depression exactly, it’s more like a flat, low-energy state where nothing really excites me or pushes me internally.

Some context about my lifestyle:

• I go to the gym around 2-3 times a week

• I’m currently in a fat loss / cutting phase (trying to go from 82 kg to 72 kg down while keeping muscle)

• Sleep is “okay”, around 6 – 7 hours, but not always perfect due to routine/stress

• I also have a history of low energy / fatigue phases even when I was training consistently

• Lately I’ve also noticed low “drive” in general, not just gym, but work and daily life too

• Libido and overall “spark” also feel lower than usual most of the times

• I get the high libido, high energy days (1-2 days) every month, during which I feel highly energetic, but they it dies out.

• My morning erections are also inconsistent.

The confusing part is that I’m still doing the basics:

training, eating clean, staying disciplined… but internally it feels like something is switched off.

It almost feels like:

my body is running, but my mind has no enthusiasm behind it

I’m not sure if this is:

• overtraining / under-recovery

• calorie deficit / diet related

• hormone related (testosterone / thyroid / etc.)

• stress / burnout

• or something else entirely

So I wanted to ask people here who might have gone through something similar:

• Have you ever experienced this “flat motivation / low drive” phase?

• What was the actual cause in your case?

• What helped you fix it? Rest, diet change, lifestyle change, medical check?

I’m open to blunt answers, even if it’s something I’m missing or doing wrong.

Thanks in advance.

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