Understanding Your Scores
Let’s get a quick refresher on what your scores mean when you have a full panel of tests done. When you are trying to understand your TSH scores, you want to know the following things:
- When your TSH scores run higher, it means you are low in thyroid.
- When your TSH scores run lower, it means you are high in thyroid
When you want to understand your free T3 and free T4 scores, it is going to be a bit more direct. If you are low in thyroid, your scores will be lower – and vice versa!
The problems, or the wrinkles as I like to call them, begin when we start talking about ranges. As I have told you before, the TSH range is actually quite wide.
Many who are in the “normal” range, but on the high side, can be hypothyroid. It actually confuses a lot of what we think of as “normal,” because it is actually not healthy.
At the same time, free thyroid hormones are just as tricky. They can fluctuate all of the time, and studies have shown this (2). Just because you are relatively healthy, does not always mean that your free thyroid scores are going to “add up”.
It’s a tricky process, which means that understanding the appropriate dosage is going to be just as tricky. Let’s get rid of some of the confusion, and dive right into the concept of proper dosage of thyroxine for weight loss today.