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What Is Causing My TSH Level To Be High?

I've had high ANA readings since I was a teenager. A few years ago, I was admitted through the ER with "seizure-like activity." The only objective findings were "swelling of the dura" and a TSH of 94. No diagnosis ever reached. Any ideas of what could spike my TSH so high?
Fri, 23 Sep 2016
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hi
The antinuclear antibody (ANA) test is used as a primary test to help evaluate a person for autoimmune disorders that affect many tissues and organs throughout the body (systemic).So you are a person with autoimmune disease and for this reason i suspect for an autoimmune disease of the thyroid gland or Hashimoto s thyroiditis( Auto-anticorps anti-thryroperoxidase = AAC anti-TPO will diagnose this disease)and in Hashimoto thyroiditis TSH can spike in high values.
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What Is Causing My TSH Level To Be High?

hi The antinuclear antibody (ANA) test is used as a primary test to help evaluate a person for autoimmune disorders that affect many tissues and organs throughout the body (systemic).So you are a person with autoimmune disease and for this reason i suspect for an autoimmune disease of the thyroid gland or Hashimoto s thyroiditis( Auto-anticorps anti-thryroperoxidase = AAC anti-TPO will diagnose this disease)and in Hashimoto thyroiditis TSH can spike in high values.