r/goodlabs

I spent a better part of last year feeling genuinely low, snapping at people I love for no real reason and losing interest in things that used to make me happy and just assuming it was anxiety or burnout or something I needed to talk through.

I talked through it a lot and things would get slightly better and then slide back and I couldn't figure out why nothing was fully sticking. My doctor ran basic bloods and said everything looked fine and I kept going because the numbers didn't show anything alarming. After a while I just wanted to dig deeper on my own so I ordered a more detailed panel through goodlabs. My vitamin D came back critically low, my ferritin was on the floor and my testosterone was at the bottom of the range for my age. All three of those things can independently tank your mood and your motivation and your ability to feel like yourself and I had all three going on at once without anyone ever thinking to check.

I'm a few months into addressing all of it and the baseline is so much better than it was, still working through things but I feel like I'm making progress now in a way I wasn't before. The thing that stays with me is how long I spent thinking it was all in my head when part of it was just in my blood the whole time. Did anyone else find something physical underneath it all after a long time of assuming it was purely mental??

Is there a way to generate a printable report of my GoodLabs test results that I can turn into a PDF and share with my telehealth medical providers?

I see there's an option to share access to my GoodLabs data via email, but this doesn't help because I don't have my medical providers' emails. I interact with my providers through an online client portal where I can send PDFs.

I tried sharing my labs with my providers via screenshots of my GoodLabs account, but they told me they need an actual report that clearly identifies me by name, DOB, etc.

Curious what people picked as their first panel here. Mine was the comprehensive mens, figured id rather get the full picture once than guess at what to order. Ended up flagging stuff i didnt expect (low D, borderline cholesterol) so worth it for me. For anyone whos used the platform a while, do you rotate panels each time or stick with one? Trying to figure out the smartest way to do this longterm.

Looking to get the bodybuilder panel was wondering if there is a limit on the testosterone level , say if mine comes back 2000+ will it show the number or just say it’s passed the limit on the range ?