Tzippy – Near 5 -which way? below or above? 4.7 is the cutoff acc. to a good % of professionals. Right now the medical community hasn’t accepted 3, if there are those that hold that. Again anyone with symptoms should be further tested, even if the screening test was within normal limits. But the TSH is a great screening tool for thyroid problems. You obviously don’t understand the purpose of a screening test. So I would say maybe there is 1 in a million who are obese because of hypothyroid and it can’t be detected by the TSH test.
Anybody who will screen with the whole thyroid panel is wasting health dollars. In our day and age, if you waste money on non-necessary tests, there won’t be enough money for the necessary things that people need from the medical field!