Hey all

Im doing this for a friend, who cant get a straight answer at all from any doc he's seen the past 3 years.

He's 27 now, but at 19 he was a competitive strongman, with lots and lots and lots of potential.
All natural, creatine when close to a contest, other than that only loads of food and an occasional protein shake.

Then he got multiple herniated discs, the first docs said nothing was wrong, so he continued to work out and compete, ignoring the pain.
Eventually he stopped and saw another doc, who had him x-rayed and told him what it was.

His back is still buggered, but he's found ways to work out without too much pain in his back.


Then he started feeling a huge lack of energy, problems recovering after a workout, erectile dysfunction etc, and had his Test checked. It came back at lower than 2.2! Range being 12-30something. Ok, so he got Androgel , and started feeling better. Recovery was still a complete b!tch though, and his knees, wrists, shoulders, hips, elbows and fingers started hurting more and more.

He's still a huge beast, but today just lifting a plate of food, like you normally do between thumb and fingers, is so painful a few seconds later that he has to put it down, first his thumb starts to hurt, pain travelling a little bit across the wrist up his forearm, then his shoulder starts to throb and hurt.

Joints are not swollen or sore to the touch, muscles are not sore. Unless he's managed to get a workout in, then he's sore for 1-1.5 weeks


Docs been taking all kinds of tests, and say it is absolutely NOT reumatoid arthritis. So I was wondering if anyone else here have had similar problems, or feel like taking a look at his bloodtests.


The pics he sent me were blurry, so I wont be able to list all ranges etc today.

The only test that were WAY out of whack was S-CK (serum creatine kinase)
Outside of the ranges are marked RED, and close to the ranges are marked BLUE

S-CK (0.8-6.7) 30.08 / 18.05 <<<<<<<<<<
B-Hb (134-170) 162
B-EPK (4.2-5.7) 5.2
B-EVF (39-50) 49 <<<<<<<
B-MCV (82-98) 93
B-MCH (27-33) 31 <<<<<<<
B-MCHC (320-360) 332
B-TPK (145-360) 266
B-LPK (3.5-8.8) 8.6 <<<<<<<
B-RDW (-16) 12 <<<<<<<

Bilirubin (5-25) 26 / 22 <<<<<<<
S-ALP (0.6-1.8) 1.0
S-ASAT (-0,75) 0,1 / 0.60
S-ALAT (-1.10) 0.84 / 0.79
S-LD (1.8-3.4) 3.7 / 3.0 <<<<<<<
S-Albumin (36-48) 48 <<<<<<<

Checking urine for proteins, blood etc came back all negative

Prolactin etc all came back in the middle of the range.

B-SR (2-15) 2



Any ideas or input at all is greatly appreciated!

/Maf