My Endo says I will need surgery eventually due to unknown long term sides effects of using PTU (we both ruled out RAI due to eye issues that I have) . However, it seems that surgery is such a drastic step for treating something that is so well-controlled on such a low dose of meds. We are even trying to go as low as 1/4 pill every other day.
i dont know if these are possible long term effects of the drugs or something else. everyone keeps saying im having anxiety attacks but these feelings come when i am calm and seem very serious. if anyone has any advice on whats going on ,whether drug related or not,, or any advice on good doctors to go to PLEASE let me know immediatly.
Once you have graves you will always have it, but I highly believe supplements and diet can lead to long term remissionion, especially if you have a mild case. Research the effects of L-canrnitine, and lemon balm for hyper. The results are pretty good.
As an aside, please don't throw aside conventional medicine, it has it's benefits. I would never suggest to anyone to NOT take an ATD, unless the T3&T4 are elevated.
Levoxly's long term side effects if taken at the right dose are very rare, with the most common being hair loss nothing new to most of us here.
my son was a newly diagnosed "graves disease" pt. he was given tatazole tablet 5mg. to be taken after breakfast for one month, what are the side effect of tatazole, the things he have to avoid and if you can give me more/additional information about the disease. thanks!
I found an article online of a study done in Italy where (and I'm going off a foggy memory) where they performed IV Methylprednisone (pulse therapy) for 3-5 weeks and over 87% showed significant long-term improvement. There was only 25 patients in that study, but, I am a 42 year old male diagnosed when I was 24 and I still have the inflammation around the eye lids and some minor proptosis. Health and nutrition is excellent, I'd like to "get back to normal".
I am a 25 y/o female diagnosed with hyperthyroidism at 16 and later with Graves Disease and Goiter. I have been on Tapazol along with Atenelol (for the Tachacardia) off and on for the past 9 years with no results. Every doc I see wants to discuss nothing but RAI or surgery. My husband and I have been trying to conceive for a few years with no success. I finally found out that I was pregnant the beginning of last year and made it to 4 months and suffered a miscarriage for no apparent reason.
With both FT3 and FT4 as low as they are, it's no wonder you feel like you were run over by a truck; add a severe cold to the mix and you probably feel like it not only ran over you, but backed up and did it again.
We have to back up a little bit, though; I just realized what you said in your first sentence: "i was diagnosed with graves disease and initially shown as hypo". Graves disease is associated with being hyper, not hypo. Please clarify that.
I was diagnosed with Graves disease in 2003. I was previously maintained on PTU and was able to quit taking it for several months before relapsing. My TSH has been undetectable for over a year now and my endo is pushing me to have RAI. He said that I will never go into remission. He said the PTU is not good to be on long term, and that it's not controlling my graves anymore. My T3 and T4 were in normal range until last week and my T3 is now slightly High.
It should be pointed out that, especially in the US literature, the term ‘hashitoxicosis’ is sometimes used to describe an autoimmune thyroid disease overlap syndrome of Graves’ and Hashimoto’s disease.2 In this article the term is strictly limited to the ‘leakage’ symptoms of active Hashimoto’s disease."
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I've had both Hashi's and Graves antibodies simultaneously but I had been diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis previously.
i wonder did a doctor tell you you had multiple chemical sensitivites....
iam apatient who suffers graves disease. My question is : Although I am almost 4 months on Carbamizole treatment 60 mg + Taking inderal ( propanalol), but the levels of my T4 & T3 are still high and the levels of TSH is less than 0.01.
what do you think , should i sstop the medication and think of the other allternatives like the radioactive iodine or surgical removal?
Therapy with antithyroid drugs is typically thought of as either short term or long term. Short-term therapy is used to make the thyroid blood tests normal before a decision is reached about definitive therapy. Long-term therapy is used in some patients to try to make the disease go into remission even after the antithyroid drug is stopped.
Beta-blockers: Beta-blocker drugs, such as atenolol, do not block the production of thyroid hormone.
dont be too scared as said above few people experience sides but one thing is for sure long term use for decades is not healthy and only cirrhosis or severe damaged liver can justify such use so i'd definitely combo with other therapies so that nucs can be used short term
from latest easl conference we have now tests for sustained immune control of hbv
cccdna equal or less than 5 copies/cell
we now need an hbsag level equal to 5copies/cell, mybe hbsag 500iu/ml
My question that has been difficult to find an answer to, relates to long term effects. I have not been able to find at least an approximate length of time or dosages that can lead to eventual liver cancer in the future. I am currently 26 years old, in relatively good shape physically, do not drink or have any other vices that may exacerbate the vicodin effects on my liver, but am still concerned.
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