A 44-year-old member asked:
What is the normal tsh level for an average male?
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Dr. Lonna Larshanswered
Family Medicine 32 years experience
Depends: On who you ask. Most lab reports show normal as being 0.5 - 5 mlu/l, but many people feel the range should be 0.3 - 3. If you are being treated for hypothyroidism, the ideal range is 1 -2. I usually start to take notice when someone's TSH is >2.5.
See http://www.Nlm.Nih.Gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003684.Htm.
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A 38-year-old member asked:
What are normal TSH levels?
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Dr. Susan Wingoanswered
Endocrinology 35 years experience
It's controversial: There is broad consensus that a TSH between 0.3-2.5 is normal (assuming no pituitary problem exists), and broad consensus that TSH levels above 10 are abnormal and should be treated. A middle-of-the-road approach might be to say that levels between 5-10 are abnormal, and treatment is likely to be beneficial, and that values between 2.5-5 may be abnormal, and that treatment may be beneficial.
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