Normal TSH BUT...hypothyroid

Anyone diagnosed as being hypothyroid with normal TSH?

1.160

Not much info here. Your other thread mentions your on thyroid med. Confusing.

So is your TSH above, before thyroid med, or now while using thyroid med?

Well, this is something to keep records on, any "thyroidian" needs to keep a notebook.

TSH is not very accurate in some people, its a signal from the pituitary gland telling the thyroid what to do. When this TSH "signal" does not corelate well with the ft3 and ft4 levels, some Drs investigate for possible pituitary abnormalities with imaging CT/MRI ect. If no abnormalities are found, they raise ft3 and ft4 with hormone using symptom relief as a gauge and dont bother with looking at TSH.

"Regular" drs are to chicken to do this, its beyond there training, which thyroid is only about 1 day in medical school.

Some people are" perfect" , by the book thyroid patients, not all of us though.

Yes, as many Drs go by the "TSH is the Golden rule" standard. It should not be like that.

If we were all "perfect" , easy to treat thyroid patients, why would we be searching for answers on forums??? We'd be living life symptom free.

I guess I have the opposite problem from you. My TSH is high but my T3 and T4 levels tend to fall in the normal range. I see a couple doctors about the same issue. But I tend to trust the NP I see, she can usually go more in-depth about it. Explaining how TSH is part of the pituitary and how it makes T4 and converts to T3. I'm really simplifying her explanations here. But she pretty told me that if I keep having issues on my current med then they'll check to see of its a pituitary issue or if I'm just not a good converter and may need T3 meds. She even offered to switch me to the natural stuff when I want. Like Armour and something else whose name I can't remember right now.

My primary just uped my levothyroxine med from 25 mcgs to 75. i was feeling ok for about a week and then I started feeling fatigue again. I'll have to read more of the forum, but does anyone deal with symptoms coming and going?

Think of TSH as a screening test. It can be done easily and cheaply to catch the vast majority of those of us with thyroid problems. If it's abnormal, the full panel can be done to arrive at a diagnosis. For those of us who are freaks, though, the usual routine may not fit us perfectly. My thyroid is abnormal but not freaky. My colon is abnormal and freaky.