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Doctor believes that by taking medication for lowering tsh we can also lower cholesterol and maybe stop taking cholesterol medication is this true?
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Thyroid cholesterol: If you are hypothyroid (elevated tsh), normalizing the thyroid will help your cholesterol, sometimes quite a bit. But if your thyroid is normal (tsh in normal range) then adding more thyroid medication will not help your cholesterol.
Answered 11/26/2013
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Yes: Hypothyroidism often raises cholesterol and treating it will tend to bring it down to the healthy range.
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