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GRAVES DISEASE HELP !
Cna someone how things will change after I have My Graves treated ? I read that most that have it treated end up with HYPOTHYOID... also seems the word is most dr's have no idea how to prescribe T3,T4....and amrour might be the way to go ?? any info sugestions would be great
It sounds good. Start there - it seems like it is slowing things down for you and that is a good sign. -
real answers will come on your next labs.
real answers will come on your next labs.
ok,no one answerd me...does it look good for me that im on 10mg a day..and its working fine ? and I am a fighter alright..lol pro 1 well as of right now...If I had it my way..meds for 1 yr or so..then do what I must...its only been 4 days..but my heart rate is down to 70 at rest...was 100...hand tremors stopped fully..so maybe good signs ?
as always thanks for your replys ! any info,idea's or thoughts it great ! I should talk to him today
as always thanks for your replys ! any info,idea's or thoughts it great ! I should talk to him today
Maybe I should mention Benny that I too have Graves, had Atrial Fibrillation 3 times in 2 weeks prior to RAI last June 2008...had to have my heart 'shocked' back into rythm on the 3rd episode and funny enough...one more thing.
I had 8 mcl RAI and was HYPO after FIVE WEEKS!
As for the antithyroid meds, I was on 40mg Carbimazole a day (same as MMI) and after 12 months on it , Hyperthyroidism and Graves was still was uncontrollable.
It all depends on the antibodies levels in regards to remission.
Some find it....most never do.
By the way,......I am doing great now on a T4 med 8 months post RAI. :)
I had 8 mcl RAI and was HYPO after FIVE WEEKS!
As for the antithyroid meds, I was on 40mg Carbimazole a day (same as MMI) and after 12 months on it , Hyperthyroidism and Graves was still was uncontrollable.
It all depends on the antibodies levels in regards to remission.
Some find it....most never do.
By the way,......I am doing great now on a T4 med 8 months post RAI. :)
Hi Benny,
I posted before that I have been treated twice for my Graves disease, Both times with PTU and then I went into remission for the first time it was for 12 years. I am in my middle fifties considered very active and feisty. When my thyroid is balanced I can walk/jog 5 miles, play 18 holes of golf and clean house ALL IN ONE DAY. When it is off my heart will pound out of my chest just walking to the mail box. Plus I am always on edge then.
Treatment with meds will make you feel better and balance your whole body. Then you will feel better and actually be able to perform better as an athlete. Without the meds and a balanced thyroid everything will get worse.
It will get better.
Take care,
I posted before that I have been treated twice for my Graves disease, Both times with PTU and then I went into remission for the first time it was for 12 years. I am in my middle fifties considered very active and feisty. When my thyroid is balanced I can walk/jog 5 miles, play 18 holes of golf and clean house ALL IN ONE DAY. When it is off my heart will pound out of my chest just walking to the mail box. Plus I am always on edge then.
Treatment with meds will make you feel better and balance your whole body. Then you will feel better and actually be able to perform better as an athlete. Without the meds and a balanced thyroid everything will get worse.
It will get better.
Take care,
I think the protacol your doctor is following is traditional and common for a beginning Dx of Graves disease. He ( your doctor) wants to see if you (he) can control the Graves on meds first before moving into permanent ablation. How impatient you are or in denial is your ( mine) fate.
I did that too - I was inpatient with not feeling well after starting it and the endo caring for me was not patient either. Kind of an a$$. Short - non disscussive and had the bed side manner of a judge :) So he chose to ablate my gland only after 6 weeks of anti thyroid meds because of my constant questions on why?? Yet I was suffering very high BP's and heart rates. Can I contribute it all to Graves. ??Looking back I don't think so.
Truthfully - I think I wanted resolution immediately and worked my self up into a high stress that probably contributed more to my anxiety then the actual graves did at times.
No one - I mean - no one - sat me down and explained to me how I needed to let "time" be on my side and to reflect back to being more patient with things, to change things within my health and life - that would "maybe" give me a chance to be better.
I was an "army within myself" and "on a mission" to get this solved "yesterday" so I could go back to my life and ways.
No sense for me to look back and see if I made the right choice anymore. Could I have been dead if I wouldn't of been ablated...?? maybe....... I can't go back and hash that - this is what I am dealth with - I just want people who are new - to know you really need to take a step back when thyroid disease hits and see what maybe went wrong.
Reality check in a sense.
Its nasty Bennie - especially when you are a fighter like me and can't accept at the beginning that you are human and your mind can't wrap around the fact this happened. It's like it isn't real. I was too "big" to have this happen is how I look back and think I thought. It's like a death within the person - ( at least for me it was ) - that reality now has set in and "change " has to be done to continue on. No more invisible - no more unreal expectations of myself and no more conplusiveness and especially no more forgiveness when I was conplusive.
Do you get how I mean that?
I did that too - I was inpatient with not feeling well after starting it and the endo caring for me was not patient either. Kind of an a$$. Short - non disscussive and had the bed side manner of a judge :) So he chose to ablate my gland only after 6 weeks of anti thyroid meds because of my constant questions on why?? Yet I was suffering very high BP's and heart rates. Can I contribute it all to Graves. ??Looking back I don't think so.
Truthfully - I think I wanted resolution immediately and worked my self up into a high stress that probably contributed more to my anxiety then the actual graves did at times.
No one - I mean - no one - sat me down and explained to me how I needed to let "time" be on my side and to reflect back to being more patient with things, to change things within my health and life - that would "maybe" give me a chance to be better.
I was an "army within myself" and "on a mission" to get this solved "yesterday" so I could go back to my life and ways.
No sense for me to look back and see if I made the right choice anymore. Could I have been dead if I wouldn't of been ablated...?? maybe....... I can't go back and hash that - this is what I am dealth with - I just want people who are new - to know you really need to take a step back when thyroid disease hits and see what maybe went wrong.
Reality check in a sense.
Its nasty Bennie - especially when you are a fighter like me and can't accept at the beginning that you are human and your mind can't wrap around the fact this happened. It's like it isn't real. I was too "big" to have this happen is how I look back and think I thought. It's like a death within the person - ( at least for me it was ) - that reality now has set in and "change " has to be done to continue on. No more invisible - no more unreal expectations of myself and no more conplusiveness and especially no more forgiveness when I was conplusive.
Do you get how I mean that?
1st of of course im not mad..and I respect your post..your 100% right,my athletic stuff comes 1st..it has to,im my living.,. did you see the post above yours from me ?? could you give me your opion on that post..seems maybe its not as bad as once thought ? since im on TAPAZOLE 1 pill a day (10mg) and he gave me 10 months of refills..today is my 2nd day taking it..my hand tremors stopped 3 hrs after taking my 1st dose yesterday..and i felt kinda sick most of the day...so do you think ,that the fact im on 10mg once a day..is good..or bad...im hoping it means the DR. thinks we can control it this way..I have not seen him yet to ask..he prescribed over the phone..so I do not know how much of my thyroid was affected..I should know Monday..
once again thank you for your post....
once again thank you for your post....
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