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treatment or not
I recently had thyroid studies done, my TSH was 6.4 and my FT4 was 0.9. My primary care repeated them after 3 weeks and my TSH was 4.0 ( the first blood drawn was am fasting the later being late afternoon ) She is willing to treat my symptoms with zoloft, skelaxin, ambien PRN and ativan PRN and also citracil. Should I be concerned that thyroid issues could be causing my any symptoms and should treatment be tried?
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Woud look at thyroid antibodies to document what is likely Hashimoto's with mild hypothyroidism. A TSH >3 in the presene of antibodies for an otherwise young/healthy person is probably not normal and a trial of thyroid medication could be considered.
It sounds to me like your doctor is avoiding the obvious. Did she bother testing for thyroid antibodies?
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