What is subclinical hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism?
Subclinical hyperthyroidism and subclinical hypothyroidism are conditions that we use to refer to a situation where a person’s TSH level is abnormal, but the blood levels of the thyroid hormone may be within the normal range. The normal blood level of thyroid hormone range is anything from 4.5 to 10.5. The TSH test is more sensitive than the test measuring the blood level of thyroid hormone. For example, a level of 9 might be normal for you, and if goes down to 5, your TSH will then go up. That would tell us that a blood thyroid hormone number of 5 is too low for you. Subclinical disease is a very important situation that physicians discuss because the presence of thyroid disease as it comes on a person, whether it’s underactive or overactive, isn’t something that just comes on overnight like the measles. This is something that gradually develops, in most cases, over a period of weeks or months and sometimes years. So there is a point at which a person has something wrong with their th
