What happens if the thyroid stimulating hormone is too high?

High levels of thyroid-stimulating hormone can easily cause patients to experience tremors, bloodless complexion, puffy complexion, fatigue, and memory loss. It may also cause symptoms such as dry and thinning hair, thickened lips, and adhesive edema of the skin.

1. High thyroid-stimulating hormone disease can cause the patient's limbs to tremble, the face to be pale, the face to be swollen, fatigue, shortness of breath, chest tightness, etc., as well as memory loss, slow reaction, pale tongue with tooth marks, and deep pulse. Since this disease mostly occurs in women, it can also cause female patients to have infrequent menstruation or amenorrhea. Male patients may also experience harm such as decreased sexual function.

2. Regarding the harm of high thyroid stimulating hormone to the body, experts pointed out that if hypothyroidism is not effectively treated, then when hypothyroidism develops to a certain extent, the skin may show myxedema, such as swelling of the cheeks and eyelids, pale complexion, anemia or old ivory appearance, drooping eyelids causing the palpebral fissure to be narrow like a slit, thickened lips, a large tongue with unclear pronunciation, slow speech, low and weak voice, dry and sparse hair, and some patients' eyebrows and eyelashes fall off.

3. If the condition of patients with high thyroid-stimulating hormone is not treated for a long time, the disease will cause damage to the patient's internal organs, such as invading the patient's liver and kidneys, leading to liver and kidney failure. The patient's whole body malnutrition, their own physical fitness, immunity and resistance will decline, making them susceptible to infection and developing some other diseases. It is extremely detrimental to the patient’s health.