Dr. Tabatha Barber explains that TSH alone misses thyroid problems: many patients with weight gain, fatigue, hair loss, and brain fog have normal TSH levels. Doctors need to test other thyroid markers and watch for symptoms the standard test ignores.
It's thyroid stimulating hormone. It's released by your pituitary in your brain. It's not even a thyroid hormone. You know, if it's screaming high, if it's jumping off the page at us, then that's easy. Then we say, okay, Julie, you have hypothyroidism here. It's obvious. Your TSH is a, you know, 10. It's screaming at us. But what if it's not? What if it's actually within that normal range but yet you still are suffering the same way I was with weight gain and fatigue and hair loss and constipation and brain fog, we have to look deeper than just the TSH.
