{"id":147,"date":"2026-07-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/reading-a-thyroid-panel-without-panicking\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:00:00","slug":"reading-a-thyroid-panel-without-panicking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/reading-a-thyroid-panel-without-panicking\/","title":{"rendered":"How to read a thyroid panel without panicking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A TSH just outside the range is common, often temporary and seldom a reason to start medication that week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jul 15, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6 min read<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Ines Carvalho<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thyroid results cause more needless worry than almost any other panel. TSH is sensitive: it shifts with illness, stress, pregnancy, the time of day and the biotin in a hair supplement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">One reading is not a diagnosis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A TSH of 5.2 with a normal free T4 and no antibodies usually calls for a repeat in six to eight weeks, not a prescription. About half of those readings return to normal on their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When it does matter<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A TSH that stays high with a low free T4, or raised TPO antibodies, is a different story: that pattern is worth acting on, and worth an endocrinologist\u2019s look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Either way we run the whole panel, because TSH on its own can\u2019t tell those two stories apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dr. Ines Carvalho<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cardiologist, Tinsdale<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A TSH just outside the range is common, often temporary and seldom a reason to start medication that week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hormones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/tinsdale-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}