I've only ran into one so far... it was a frost snow yeti/troll thing on the mountain, on my way up to hrothgar. I actually had to set the game difficulty down two just to kill it, then set it back up. Otherwise it would just three shot butt-hurt me.
That one messed me up to, so I just used Adrenalin Rush and sprinted by it. Left Lydia to deal with it. Dont worry, she lived. Did the same thing when I went through Labrynthine, only there were 4 of them to get by. Lydia still live through that.