16 year old male, problems.

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Hello my name is Matt O'Brien. I am a 16 year old in highschool and recently I

had some

blood work done because for the past year I have been feeling the following

symptoms:

Fatigue, weakness, constant hunger, cold body temperature, frequent urination

and overall

lack of enjoyment in everything I used to do. The blood work came back with

extremely low tesosterone, high cortisol, and little pituitary function. What

triggered all of this happened a year ago in the summer of 2008.

Starting the summer around June I weighed 130 lbs and just got done competing at

state wrestling. When that was over I decided to cut down for next year right

away to have a better chance at doing better in wrestling.

I started eating less and less, and eventually all I ate was mostly protein,

verry little carbohydrates, and little to no fats at all. All of this ended

around September, so from June-September around four months I had pretty much

developed an eating disorder from my favorite sport. Before I had my bodyfat

taken for school,I was at 7% so I was naturaly lean anyway. Not only that but I

am losing weight but gaining that bodyfat... I don't understand if the low

tesosterone and growth hormone is causing bone and muscle loss, but I lift three

times a week at the school and have not noticed many strength losses, I just can

never get any stronger. It kills me to know that everything I do will only make

me worse, I have no idea how to correct this hypothalamic/pituitary problem. It

would mean so much to me if you could help me with this, I think my doctor is

running out of ideas for me. He has sent me to an endocrineologist in Des

Moines, IA and she took seven serums of bloodwork showing all this. I should

probably tell you that I'm not nutritionally defecient in any way, I eat around

2,000 calories a day full of the right protein, carbohydrates, and fats. I even

supplement healthy fats like fish oil omegas to try to help it. I take a

multi-vitamin and an extra b-vitamin complex everyday to try and help. Nothing

works. Not only did all of this mess with my quaility of life, my favorite

sport, wrestling, is now being taken away from me because I don't have the

energy to practice or compete...

The last two endocrinologists I have seen have told me to " wait it out " but

that's kind of hard with such low levels at such a young age. I was wondering if

anyone knows any good dr.s from Iowa that could help me out, or have any

suggestions.

Levels go as follow:

IGF-1- 243 range (257-601)

T4 (Free) 1.04 (0.89-1.76)

TSH 1.17 (.35-5.50)

LH 2.2 (1.5-9.3)

Testosterone 96.7 (241-827)

Normal CBC and Comp Metabolic

The only other thing the Dr. noticed that was abnormal was a low Hemoglobin with

normal ferratin, Iron and TIBC.

Hemoglobin 11.9 (13.0-16.0)

RBC 3.97 (4.70-6.10)

Hematocrit 34.5 (39-50)

IGF-1- 243 range (257-601)

ACTH 23 pg/ml normal with cortisol