I have been a diagnosed t1 diabetic for 5 months now and recently got all my blood work done. They sent me a letter telling me my TSH is high and I saw that it was 10.34… they gave me a new lab order to get more tests done but my schedule is so busy I have been having a difficult time getting to the lab on time… anyways I was just wondering if anyone knows how high 10.34 is for a TSH, could it just be a malfunction or is that pretty high? I have looked a lot of places and I cannot find much on it… THANKS!
It actually varies from lab to lab… unfortunately. So without knowing the ranges of your particular lab it’s hard to say…
Elizabeth
Well, in the grand scheme of things, it isn’t the highest level a TSH could possibly be… I mean, mine was about 150 when I was diagnosed. Of course, you NEVER want to ignore your Thyroid so that it deteriorates to that level. Your Thyroid (much like your Pancreas produces insulin to deal with glucose) produces hormones (T3 and T4) that help it deal with Iodine, for our body’s metabolic functions. Your Thyroid right now, is simply not making enough of those hormones, and it needs extra help, with a simple little pill, once a day… Much like your Pancreas, it needs help. If you ignore this, it will unfortunately, just get worse, and make your life miserable: It will affect your glucose control, it will make you exhausted so that it will be impossible to keep up with your busy schedule, it will make your hair fall off, it will make you gain weight, have irregularity issues, and period issues, plus… there are some real, critical long term complications like carpal tunnel, Rheumathoid Arthritis, extreme mineral deficiencies, etc… If you never took care of it, at all, after decades and decades in the making, one day if you went into some cold weather… your body wouldn’t be able to deal with it, and you could slip into a coma, and die. Hypothyroidism is nothing to put off… Take care of it, as soon as possible. 
You can join our group, Hypothyroid Diabetics, if you have more in depth questions, need info, or want to share experiences, etc.
The range is usually around 0.4-5. That is the widest I have ever seen it. Never at 10, or anything like that.
The other thing that overactive thyroiid can cause is heart problems. Not something to be ignored!
Ruth
Robin’s numbers indicate underactive or hypothyroid, not overactive. I know it’s confusing, the higher the number the lower the thyroid. I always can remember it because after being stable for 10 years when I was diagnosed with diabetes my thyroid went out of whack and it was .087 which is very hyperactive. (I had a hyperactive thyroid and had it destroyed with radiation so I now take thyroid replacement meds and sometimes the dose has to be changed so I don’t go to far in either direction)