DaveFoster
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Along with that you should not just be looking at TSH but all of your thyroid labs, and lastly most of all - your symptoms. I managed to reduce my TSH from 6.x to 3.5. Yes, I do feel better after that change. But concurrently my thyroid hormone profile looks better as well. Now do I feel better from the TSH change or the thyroid hormone change? Or both? Either way, those things go hand in hand.
If by "real benefit," you meant "entire benefit" then that would be accurate. There's indeed a benefit to a low TSH independent of euthyroidism.The real benefit comes from having adequate thyroid hormones, not from a low TSH....
TSH has pro-inflammatory actions, and lowering TSH without increasing the concentration of circulating thyroid hormones will still raise the metabolic rate.I managed to reduce my TSH from 6.x to 3.5. Yes, I do feel better after that change. But concurrently my thyroid hormone profile looks better as well. Now do I feel better from the TSH change or the thyroid hormone change? Or both? Either way, those things go hand in hand.