Quote Originally Posted by velogirl View Post
beta blockers are commonly prescribed to post-thyca (thyroid cancer) patients. part of the long-term treatment for thyca, after surgery and radiation, is to surpress the patient's TSH by keeping the patient in a constant state of being very hyper-thyroid. this is an uncomfortable state for many patients, especially athletes, because of the extremely high heart rates, so docs will prescribe beta blockers to relieve the cardiac stress.

As a thyca patient, my endo keeps my TSH @ .01. That's considered very low and would indicate severe hyper-thyroidism. so if your TSH was @ .01, I would think you are hyper-thyroid -- .01 is not a "normal" result.
Lori- you had thyca? So did I! Hehe, team Thyca here.

On a random note, if anyone remembers a while ago I posted about missing my period. Finally went and got my bloodwork done because I was also showing signs of a prolactinoma. Turns out that I went into a hypothyroid(well synthetic thyroid...) state. The synthroid dosage that I had been on for almost 2 years all of a sudden isn't enough.

So what a relief, no prolactinoma, just an increase in synthroid medication:-)