ohiolady
November 21, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Post count: 12
Ski:
What an informational post – AWESOME!
Am I understanding it correctly in a nutshell – if choose ATD will take approx 6 weeks to get thyroid non hyper and then most likely take it for 12-18 mo and then see if thyroid goes hyper again. I assume they have to "fine tune" the ATD dosage during this time. If it goes into remission great – but most likely not and then choose to go back on ATD or have RAI. If have RAI takes approx 6 weeks to get thyroid non hyper and then take hormone replacement. Hormone replacement dosage takes some time to fine tune. My endo said it would take a minimum of 6 months with the ATD (not sure if he meant to get thyroid non hyper or to have dosage "fine tuned")