You’re going to get a lot of bad advice on this sub. But yes, retesting in a month or two is good medical advice before starting a life long medication that may or may not help with your symptoms. Hypothyroid symptoms look like a lot of other disorders. Don’t go doctor shopping because your first one didn’t push pills on you after one borderline TSH test. More on reddit.com

Levothyroxine resolved my anger, mental confusion, and poor memory. TSH of 5.22 at the time of diagnosis. More on reddit.com

Subclinical hypothyroidism is a difficult topic because is has two categories of symptoms that can occur: Symptoms that can be easily and precisely measured (female infertility, miscarriage, deterioration of cholesterol) and symptoms that are non-specific and not easily measured (anhedonia, fatigue, depression, hair loss, anxiety). Infertility and miscarriages are easily measured and as a consequence most women will get treated if their TSH is above 2.5, certainly if it's above 5. On the other hand, fatigue, depression and anxiety are common, very non-specific and hard to measure objectively. What's more, levothyroxine tends to have a narrow therapeutic index (in most patients, not in all) and if you overdose the patient by a few mcgs she may be just as or even more anxious and fatigued (while mild overdoses on the other hand do not increase the risk of miscarriage, infertility or bad cholesterol), and patient A will do fine at a TSH level that may be too high for patient B but too low for patient C. This makes for very messy and contradictory clinical research and vague guidelines (much less so on the matter of pregnant women, of course). As a consequence, the same doctor who aggressively treats a woman for a TSH of 2.6 if she wants to get pregnant may scoff at the idea of treating someone with a TSH of 8 despite the latter's complaints that she can barely get out of bed and that half her eyebrows have fallen out. From the patients' perspective, this is very unsatisfactory and makes no sense. There's no reason to assume that hard-to-measure symptoms only occur at much higher TSH levels than easy-to-measure symptoms. More practically, many endos take an unexplained elevation of LDL cholesterol and the elevation of TPO/TG antibodies as an argument for treatment, as both make it much more likely that high-in-range or mildly elevated TSH indicates actual thyroid dysfunction. On a side note, the symptoms of iron deficiency (with or without anemia) broadly overlap with the symptoms of thyroid dysfunction, and according to newer studies, iron deficiency affects approximately 20-40% of the pre-menopausal female population, so it may be useful to give a patient complaining of non-specific symptoms iron for a few months unless their ferritin is actually high. More on reddit.com

I was hit with a subclinical hypothyroidism diagnosis last year after one blood test where my TSH was 5.8. They prescribed medication and asked me to come back in for a more comprehensive blood test, but they cancelled on me and life happened, so when I saw my new PCP this year, she ran the full blood work. My TSH was down to 4.95, but the TPO antibodies came back positive/high, so my PCP diagnosed me with Hashimoto's and recommend I start a low dose of Levothyroxine because there is no cure. I've been taking 25mcg Levo for about 10 weeks. I did the follow up blood work about a week and a half ago. My TSH is down to 3.03 now. There are a few highlights from my experience I wanted to share: The symptoms are so gradual, I had no idea I was definitely experiencing them and had been for probably two years. I was taking more naps to get through the day, I couldn't eat anything without feeling full, slightly fluffier, more prone to mild depression, mild hair loss, etc. About a week ago, I noticed my energy levels are back to probably 85% of what they were before (along with the other symptoms being generally back to normal as well) and I feel more like myself again. I didn't realize how off I was until getting back to generally how I felt before. I too did a deep dive of the hypothyroidism / hashimotos subs and it is a doom spiral. I obviously can't say what your experience will be - or hell, even predict my own, but something that helped me when I first got the diagnosis was a random comment that said something like, "The majority of the people posting/commenting are the people having problems. I wanted to share my experience - I live a normal life." Tracking my symptoms alongside taking the medication has helped me feel more in control. My doctor is great, but it is really helpful to be able to say, "X started on Friday." Breathe, step away from Google, and be kind to yourself during this time. Good luck! More on reddit.com