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I have a tsh redsult of 17.38, ft4 15.72 and ft3 4.25. is it normal or dangerous?

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Dr. Jeffrey Ng answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

You are not taking: Tsh is very sensitive to the compliance of you taking the thyroid medication. Usually, when we see a high TSH and a high t4, it means the patient took some extra thyroid meds recently. Your overall control is bad. Just take your thyroid medication regularly at the same dose and re-do the labs in a 6 weeks. Tsh level is really the long-term ft4 sensor!

Answered 9/28/2016

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