Anyone With a Hyperactive Thyroid? Posted: 05-12-04 05:54am
Hi everyone! I was diagnosed with graves
disease over a year ago and was put on
tapazole. (sorry if I spelled it wrong)
after a year my thyroid went in remission
but only for 4 months. Nows its slowing
going hyper active again.
Has anyone else had this problem? My
doctor wants me to swallow the raidoactive
stuff, but I am afraid. I want to go
back on the tapazole for another year.
Any advise would be helpful?
Hawn
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40girl
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Joined: 19 May 2004 Posts: 10 Location: texas
Hypoeractive Thyroid Posted: 05-24-04 04:42am
I was also recently diagnosed with graves
disease. I will have the radioactive
iodine in a week. I did research on the
treatment options on the internet before
my appointment with the specialist. My
doctor recommended the iodine. The truth
is the thyroid suppressing drugs such as
you have been on do not work for everyone.
The radioactive iodine is relatively
painless and can completely stop
hyperactive thyroid in 2-3 months. Aftewr
that you may be hypo and need thyroid
supplements. The dosage of the
supplements will be tweaked until you feel
good and blood tests show your levels are
good. However if you have small children
as I do you have to take some precautions
for a week or so after the ttreatment.
You will be slightly radioactive and to
limit your child's exposure you need to
not expose them to your urine or salva,
they can't sleep with you or stay on yor
lap or too close to you.Do a google search
and find out more.Good luck.
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cozyglobe4
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 01 Jun 2007 Posts: 2 Location: Canada
I Have Grave's Also Posted: 06-01-07 20:34pm
HI I was diagnoised with Grave's 7 years
ago had the meds for a year did not work
then radiation..my thyroid levels stayed
normal until 7 months ago when they
fianlly started dropping....yes I have put
on weight 40 pounds in the pst year...ouch
after used to eating any thing and every
thing and still staying skinny..I thought
I would never say I CAN"T WAIT UNTIL IT
DOES NOT WORK AT ALL !! At least then the
levels will stay the same and I feel well
and more energetic and LOOSE WEIGHT..
Grave's is a long process of recovery..I
feel for you and feel not so a lone...
The one thing that always concerned me
though is once I have one auto emunine
disorder how many other's could I get...??
Any one else know??
Here is a Big ((HUG)) for you it will get
better..I promiss..
i was diagnosed with hyper and graves
diease in April. I have lost now about
55lbs. I have had the radio iodine
treatment and now it is just a waiting
game. the radio iodine treatment wasnt
bad at all, my doc told me that some
people have a real bad soar throat after
the treatment but i did not. i have a 14
and a 10 year old so i had to stay away
from them for like 3 days. good luck to
you and let us know how you are doing.
B
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depressedashell
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 26 Jun 2007 Posts: 5
I Also Have Thyroid (hyper) Posted: 06-26-07 04:06am
i have hyperthyroid and is currently on
tapazole, however i plan to stop taking it
once it runs out. my thyroid was high for
a while, then it was normal for a while,
until i had my blood test which shows the
t3 or t4 to be really high. i forgot the
exact numbers. anyway, the medicine
(tapazole) is making me gain weight even
though i barely eat at all. maybe a bite
or two throughout the whole day and that's
it. i have no urge to eat like i used to
when i was not on the medicine, and i
don't seem to be losing any weight. i
remember at one point i was at 105 lbs
which is extremely underweight. i mean i'm
still skinny right now but i'm not losing
any weight even though i dont eat!!. i do
sleep a lot with this thyroid condition.
more than 12 hrs each day. the rest of the
time i'm really depressed. my doctor also
discussed the radioactive iodine as a
possible treatment or surgery but i don't
think i will do it cus its not natural.
WHy destroy something that was
origininally there for a reason and my
belief is that if it can become hyper by
itsself, it can become normal as well.
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mrspatel
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 1
Tapazole Too Posted: 08-15-07 23:41pm
hi all-
i was diagnosed with hyper and graves
diease just couple months ago..i started
PTU but it gave me lots of migraines..(i
do suffer from migraines regularly) so the
PTU gave me more clusters. anyhow the
doctor changed and prescribed
methamazole..aka tapazole...excuse the
spellings...so now im on this tapazole and
oh dear...i have serious itch on my
body...my feet and nect and back the
most...has anyone else gone thru this? if
so any relief ..? please let ..
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