- Reaction score
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Just got blood results from 2 days ago, my TSH is 5.03... Should I ask my doctor for meds ?
Also FT3 - 5.2
and FT4 - 14.1
Your TSH is already above even the widest top range at that value which means it is too high. I would get on medication at this point, it's only likely to get worse otherwise. Doctors like to have a big leeway for the TSH so they don't treat you until it's above 4 point something but really, in healthy people the TSH should not go below 0.3 or higher than 1.5. Most people who have TSH's of 3, 4 and above are already hypothyroid. Do you have any symptoms? Tired? Low energy? Low libido? Skin issues? Etc.
On an old abandoned forum guys like Swoop and InBeforeTheCure used to talk about what genes might be involved in Androgenetic Alopecia. Another guy called TheKingOfFighters theorised based on this article that hair could be regrown by Estradiol, but it needed something else that went with it. For all we know, you may have found the other ingredients that you need to regrow hair. Estradiol likely isn't enough for hair regrowth since when 5a-reductase is blocked more Testosterone gets turned into Estradiol, yet Finasteride rarely regrows hair. I wish it was true that it was just Estradiol by itself, then you could just get on Finasteride, do weightlifting and other Testosterone inducing activities and grow all your hair back!
http://dev.biologists.org/content/136/16/2815
The prednisolone and salicylic acid in Alpicort are anti-inflammatory. Those might play a part.