My CCC Docs raised my Thyriod meds to 50mgs 6 months ago and that lowered my to a pre TX level of 2.2. MY thyroid started going bad about 1 year post Tx, my MO does throid blood tests every visit to see how it is doing and the tests started 2 months post Tx. Semper-Fi Bob

Don

One of the first axioms we learned in law school was in Torts
[quote]It never hurts to ask[/quote] The opinion of my endocrinologist is that a wide variation in pre and post cancer TSH level is a clear sign that you would benefit from treatment. She also thinks the lab ranges are outdated and wrong as does the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE)and the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry, part of the Academy of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC), and presented in their Laboratory Medicine Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Thyroid Disease.
On the other hand, my CCC MO was equally adamant that as long as the post TX TSH level was within "normal" lab ranges, no treatment was necessary. As I mentioned, he is exceptionally dedicated and fair and he admitted upon cross examination that he had no way to judge who was right in this ongoing, eight-year dispute among thyroid experts. Since 2002, many endocrinologists believe that the range should be narrowed significantly, to 0.3 to 3.0 instead of the 20th century lab ranges still being used of the normal reference range is approximately 0.5 to 5.0. All my CCC doctors and my ENT agreed that they had no way to know which position on the lab ranges was right as this was just not their specialty.
All I know is that taking the thryoid medicine has made a world of difference for me. Another thanks I owe DavidCPA for his posting years ago about checking TSH levels and how the thyroid pills helped him
Charm