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The meds you were on could be exactly what you’re looking for, but you need to be far more involved in using them. The relationship between them and your thyroid hormone levels changes, at first, and you need to be patient through the swings to find a good dose that leaves your levels in a normal place. It can take a good deal of time. In a hyperthyroid state, patience is the last thing we’ve got, but facts are facts, and nothing is going to resolve quickly, no matter what you do. Putting the time into it will preserve your thyroid, and return you to health. Not taking the meds could be fatal. Untreated hyperthyroidism is extremely dangerous, and can potentially affect every body system.

If you want to keep your thyroid, that’s certainly an option, as long as you are vigilant about your levels, compliant with your medications, and you have no severe side effects from the ATDs (that’s methimazole or PTU). Many people end up on a very tiny dose that keeps their levels just right, but when you’ve gone very hyper, you need a lot at first. It is a bit art, a bit science. A doctor can’t say okay, at your height and weight, with these levels, presto, that’s your dose. They give it their best shot, and see how it works out. Adjust as necessary, see how that works. This goes on for some time, until you hit (and remain at) a normal level that works for you.

You should probably do a little research on RAI or surgery, just in case you ultimately need to take advantage of one or the other. We understand, no one wants to destroy a part of themselves. That’s a different question, if you are experiencing the very serious possible side effects from the ATDs. The most serious side effects of ATDs can be reversed, if caught in time, but if you can’t take that medication, the only other option there is for resolving the hyperthyroidism is to remove the thyroid. Your husband is right ~ your kids need a mother far more than you need a thyroid. If that day comes (it is not inevitable, but you need the face the possibility), the thyroid hormone replacement you take afterward is NOT a pharmaceutical drug in the way that you are thinking. It is chemically identical to the T4 thyroid hormone our thyroid would put out, if it existed, so it is not processed through the liver, does not leave toxins.

Your body is running like a race car with a brick on the gas pedal right now. It is extremely dangerous to keep on this way.

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#1019632

I was diagnosed with Graves about 2 years ago. I took the medicine in accordance to what my doctor told me, and it went from one end of the scale to the other. I got so frustrated with the weight gain/weight loss, that when my thyroid went to extreme hypo, and I got so tired that I couldn’t hardly pick up my head off the pillow, I quit taking it. My thyroid returned to almost normal and my doctor told me to do 5 mg of my medicine. I took it for about t week, then quit taking it alltogether. I haven’t taken anything in about 6 months or more, and I feel like my body goes from one extreme to the next. I’ll lose 10 lbs in 1 month, then gain 5 back. The heart palpatations are coming back sloooooowly but surely, and the shaking is back in full force. I’m scared the my doctor is going to say that my thyroid is diseased, or crazy, and want to kill it. I have dragged my feet for a long time in going back, but my husband is putting heavy pressure to have blood work. He says that it is better for my children to have a mommy then for mommy to have a thyroid. I’m scared!!! I don’t want my thyroid killed!!!!!!! Ever!!!! I don’t want to depend on medicine for the rest of my life, and battle my weight for the rest of my life. I just want to grow old with all my body parts working great!!!! (I’m 35) And what is this about being away from my kids for 5 days??? I thought it was 24 hours. I would die!!! They would die!!!! It would not be good!!!!!! Help???

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