What level does TSH have to be before the NHS treat it?

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Can anybody answer these questions,I have searched the web but get different

answers?.

Question 1:What level of TSH do the NHS treat?

Question 2:Once they decide you are Hypothyroid,what level of TSH they want you

to aim for?is it the " normal range " ?

Seeing my endo soon and want a bit more ammo

thanks

andy

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On average, the NHS use a reference range for TSH between 0.5 to

5.5 (differs in each lab though). If you have an active British Thyroid

Association doctor though, then the BTA and Royal College of Physicians

(London) refuse to give you a diagnosis if your TSH appears ANYWHERE within their

reference range of 0.5 to 10.0. This is absolutely crazy. In America, the TSH

ref… range was dropped from 0.5 to 5.0 in 2003 because they realised they

were missing many patients with hypothyroidism and it is now 0.3 to 3.0. he

ref. range in Germany, Belgium and Sweden is 0.3 to 2.5 with a recommendation

this be dropped still further to 0.3 to 1.5.

Once you have been given a diagnosis of hypothyroidism, they aim

to get your TSH to around 1.0, or just under. We need doctors who are capable of

giving us a diagnosis by looking at our 'signs' and listening to our symptoms

and listening to our story instead of ONLY diagnosing by serum TFT's.

Luv - Sheila

Can anybody answer these questions,I have

searched the web but get different answers?.

Question 1:What level of TSH do the NHS treat?

Question 2:Once they decide you are Hypothyroid,what level of TSH they want you

to aim for?is it the " normal range " ?

Seeing my endo soon and want a bit more ammo

thanks

andy

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