Graves disease radioactive iodine treatment
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Endocrinologist said that was enough and suggested the radioactive iodine treatment. I am miserable. What can I do to be normal again. I wish I had never done this.
Anyway I was just looking for a way to just take medications instead of Radioactive iodine uptake test .Do you have any idea abt treatment for these levels ?
Depends on the dose and what you are being treated for. Hyperthyroidism/Graves or cancer?
I am about to have radioactive iodine treatment for hyperthyroidism. Does thyroxin control weight gain if thistreatment creates hypothroidism as a result?
The thyroid gland normally collects iodine out of the bloodstream to make thyroid hormone. Radioactive iodine treatment involves taking a radioactive form of iodine that causes the permanent destruction of the thyroid. The response to treatment can take from 6 to 18 weeks. Because the radioiodine often destroys some of the normal function of the thyroid gland, people who have this therapy will likely need to take thyroid hormone for the rest of their lives to replace their hormone levels.
My Endo suggests the Radioactive Iodine but it scares me to death! I am affraid that my Graves Dease will attack something else in my body once my Tyroid is gone? Any suggestions?
I was treated for Graves Disease with radioactive iodine last January. I now am diagnosed with hypothyroidism and was prescribed medication. Recently (before the new medicine) I have been experiencing stomach aches. Is this because of the imbalance of my thyroid? I have a very heavy menstrual cycle which I know will improve with treatment. Is this a sign of anemia? Or is it possibly something isolated from this altogether?
You should be advised to stop Carbimazol 7 days before treatment, and resume it 7 days after treatment. They give you lots of advice about being radioactive for a few days. Limiting your contact with children example. I have had it twice, as it did not work for me. (Rare for it not to work!) Nothing to worry about at all, just taking a tablet under control conditions.
I have been diagnosed with hypertyroid - Graves disease for over 3 years. In the first 2 yrs, i often forget my medication and doctor has advised me that once i stop the medication even for the few days, the previous medication that i have taken goes down the drain. Thus for this 1 year, i have taken very regularly, rarely missing on my medication. However, the checkups have been disappointing. My thyroxine, free level has been under control - 13 (last result) but TSH is only 0.06.
You may take antithyroid medication before you have radioactive iodine treatment or surgery in order to bring your metabolism to normal, to make you feel better, or to reduce the chances of more serious problems.
You may also take antithyroid medications if you have Graves' ophthalmopathy and are going to be treated with radioactive iodine therapy.
1. An allergic reaction to radioactive iodine treatment includes shortness of breat, chills/rigors, fever, rash/hives.
2. Hyperthyroidism symptoms include elevated heart rate, anxiety and not sleeping well.
3. Samples under 1:40 are considered negative for ANA antibodies. Depending on what medical website you read, 1:40 can be a negative result or a mild positive result. A positive ANA test result may suggest an autoimmune disease but further testing is required.
however the gland quits taking up iodine (radioactive iodine uptake is very low) and the hyperthyroidism generally resolves over the next several weeks.
Patients frequently become ill with fever and prefer to be in bed.
Thyroid antibodies are not present in the blood, but the sedimentation rate, which measures inflammation, is very high.
My son is 21 years old and has a total thyrodectomy due to thyroid cancer he needs to have 131 radioactive iodine soon. The doctor said that he needs to stop taking cytomel a couple of weeks before receiving 131 iodine treatment. Wouldn't he go into a coma if he were to stop the thyroid medication? He had his surgery three weeks ago.
I recently got a copy of the results for bloodwork and am confused as to what it all means. My doctor had diagnosed me with graves disease (based on thyroid profile and radioactive iodine uptake/scan) and had ordered this additional testing.
T4, free 3.89 (0.8-1.8)
TSH - ultrasensative <0.01 (0.35-5.
Dear Mark,
Thank you for being there to answer our questions. My son David has been sick with hyperthyroide for almost 3 years. He is taking methomazole and propranolol. he is not married and has no children, so we say 'no' to radioactive treatment. I hope that we can find other kind of cure. please let us know if there are any kind of new treatments and research groups that we can contact. thank you and God bless you.
Lupo,
I am a 53 year old female just diagnosed with hyperthyroid due to Graves disease. I was on Methimazole 10mg 3x a day for about 3 weeks and now 2 x a day for about two weeks. Most of my syptoms have improved. My labs seem to be coming along; T4 Free is 1.3, my TSH 3rd Gen is 0.004 low and my ALT is 61. Since the on set of this illness I have had achy/painful gum episodes. Per Endocrin-md instruction I stopped the Methimazole to see if problem would subside.
My doctor keeps pushing me to get radioactive iodine but I am a little nervous. since last year I have not been feeling well and have had a low tsh <.01 for about a year now and for 2 months have been on 10 mg methamazole. originally my T4 and Free t3 were in normal range and but Igf-1 was climbing. Now my T4 is going down T3 free is 475 and tsh remains at <.01.
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