Has anyone done one of these recently and recommend a provider? Coming up to a big birthday, two small children and constantly feeling shit and things aren't right means is worrying me
I would like to get checked over even if it costs ££. I find the care from all the gps (with the exception of one in the past) seems to be trying to fob me off and get me out of the room as fast as they can to keep the quotas going rather than genuinely find out if there is some underlying issue that needs resolving before it gets serious.
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Posted 5 hours ago #
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Your GP should do it. I was feeling crap about 3 years ago and asked for full bloods. I also asked for Testosterone tests as I'd had a really bad snip with further surgery needed. Low and behold everything fine except testosterone. GP wouldn't do anything so I got referred to a consultant and moved practices. New GP saw results after more blood tests and put me on replacement therapy. My results varies between a max of 9, but more often about 5. Normal is around 20 nmols.
Been on injections or gels for last 3 years. Found gels better than the ups and downs you get from injection intervals. Plus the injection hurts like buggery after it's done, for 5 days.
I feel fine now, but of course I'm not allowed to compete or give blood. Despite replacement my levels are about 15 nmols a few hours after putting the gel on, which is low normal. You don't want too much as it thickens blood.
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New GP saw results after more blood tests and put me on replacement therapy.
Interesting, do you feel different as a result?
Always fancied getting tested for it (out of curiosity). What I really want is HGH therapy on the NHS, just so I can train like a 20 yr old...
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Started to feel crap after the corrective surgery. Was struggling riding to work. It took a few months to feel normal again.
Ended up having a year off therapy after I broke my spine and was 're tested and my bloods were bad again, so the surgery did cause the issues.
Went back on replacement a year ago and it took a good 6 months for my levels to get back to normal. I've not become Lance Armstrong as you aren't allowed to take too much as its very dangerous. I'm on maximum dose. I am supposed to have regular heamocrit tests as anything over 54 is dangerous (pro cyclists must be under 50). Average is about 45.
You don't want to mess with testosterone or HGH especially if you haven't had kids yet.
Other causes of feeling crap can be vitamin D deficiency
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My brother was sent by his company in NZ for an MOT/health check up - apparently his company does it every 5 years for everyone.
Was diagnosed with Hemochromatosis.
Cue an email out to family, 33 cousins tested and I know 10 of us are now diagnosed (me included). Furthermore the issues and early deaths in our family on one side now make a lot of sense (all heart and blood pressure related).
I think I might go myself now and again, just to stay on top of things.Posted 4 hours ago # -
You don't want to mess with testosterone or HGH especially if you haven't had kids yet.
I don't know, you train with people on gear and you see just what a difference it makes. Slight downside is they tend to have heart attacks in their 50s, but other than that it looks great!
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Your GP is the person to do this. there is a protocol for testng for "tired all the time" I have been thru it. lLow vit D was the only thing that came up and vit d suplements seen to have helped. I'm 33% sure its the answer and I am sorted, 33% that any improvement is placebo and 33% that they have missed something.
Diagnosis of vague symptoms is tricky and there is a lot of unexplained stuff out there
I would never have one done privately as you get a lot of false positives and their answer is often to write to your GP telling him to prescribe all sorts of nonsense
Posted 3 hours ago # -
The "worried well" are a source of irritation and wasting time for GPs aswell. usually its lifestyle according to my GP pal
How much alcohol do you drink? whats your diet like? How many hours do you work? Hows your stress level
If when you go to the GP before you go sit andthink and write down a list of symptoms
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I would never have one done privately as you get a lot of false positives and their answer is often to write to your GP telling him to prescribe all sorts of nonsense
tj - there's plenty who offer private tests and don't write to your GP. In my experience NHS doctors are too fond of saying "results are fine", well that's just an opinion and I've regularly found that results will be at the bottom of the range or even so low that they don't fall within the range.
Patients really need to get in the habit of either requesting a copy of test results or access them online.
This is a good resource:
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It's not just tiredness, regular headaches that last days/weakness shortness of breathe, joint pain which I can manage but can't seem to get rid of, (had long term ITB issues, I think). Paranoid I'm going to die young, 4 blokes at my work of similar age have died last year. Etc... ..have to crack my knees / back / ankles all the time meaning trouble sleeping on top of the kids. And more recently bloody freezing toes, like hurty cold.
Most likely I'm stressing about nothing, but I would really like to wake up one morning having slept 7 hours in a row (it's been at least 4 years since I did) without feeling any pain whatsoever.
I'd like to get all the things ruled out I can
Posted 2 hours ago # -
The sooner the NHS adopts the functional medicine method the better.
DT - you may want to get your B12 tested.
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dt78 thats rather more than the usual "tired all the time" and well worth getting checked. AS I said - go to your GP well prepared with a written list of symptoms - its easy to forget something when you are in front of the doc
Trouble is - all those vague symptoms are actually rather hard to make a diagnosis from.
I had a full range of bloods done according to the protocol plus a few others I requested. Everything bang on in the normal range. I still sit here with inflamed lymph nodes and still go into a fatigue crash on occasion but its less than it was and still have the night sweats but not as frequent or as bad. constant joint pain as well
There is a huge lot unexplained in our understanding of the human body - and some of this sort of stuff fits into that category
Beware quackery - there is a huge industry in giving people with vague symptoms quack diagnoses and selling them quack remedies. Thats not to say that those outside the medical world don't have something useful to ad but take a very healthy pinch of sceptism with you if you look into this world - or else yo end up with coffee enemas and treatment for food "intolrances" that simply do not exist.
Sleeping on top of the kids
?Perhaps thats the issue?
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The sooner the NHS adopts the functional medicine method the better.
What method do they currently use?Posted 1 hour ago #
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