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Absolutely I see the problem! Thank you for phrasing it more elegantly than I did. And absolutely TSH is a useful number. It's a very fine measure of the hormone thought to control the T4->T3 conversion rate, as well as the thyroid output.
Now can you tell me (a) What the AACB did wrong in their report, or (b) why, when someone goes to their doctor with many of the symptoms of hypothyroidism, they do this test, and they find the number to be within a very broad range, and then they say "your problems can't be anything to do with thyroid hormones".
Especially in the context of diabetes, another endocrine disorder, where we know that you can have normal levels of hormones, but for some reason they aren't working, and you have high blood-sugar that is killing you anyway? No one in their right mind would tell a type-2 diabetic that they weren't diabetic because they had a normal amount of insulin.
I don't know, haven't looked at it. I suspect that the underlying issue is that for one variable in a complicated process the concept of unconditional "normal range" might be too simplistic.
For the usual reasons :-/ Find a better doctor.
Except that all the better doctors have been struck off! Who takes hypothyroidism to a chiropractor?