- Re: how low should your tsh be?

[Guest guest]

Hi, -

It sounds to me as if your doctor isn't experienced in treating thyroid cancer.

Generally protocol calls for TSH suppression of less than .10; recent

amendments have been made, allowing higher levels for

low risk cases, but definitely your TSH should be below 1.0

(not a doctor)

NYC

" " wrote:

> I can't get a hold of my doctor until tomorrow and I am very curious

> about this so I thought I would run it past all of you. I had my

> radiation in December. I went back on levoxyl and cytomel for two

> weeks. My dose of levoxyl was .o75. After 5 weeks, my dr. checked

> and my tsh was 28 so he changed my dose to .137. I just had my tsh

> checked on Monday and the nurse called today and left a message that

> my tsh is 2.06 and the dr. is happy with that. I thought that the

> lower the better. I have heard people talking about there tsh being

> below 1. I'm not sure if my dr. is doing this because I have to

> have another scan at the end of May and I will just have to go off

> of my levoxyl again. This scan will be a six month check for me to

> see how things are working. Does anybody know what your tsh should

> be at.