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Please forgive me if I’m wrong, and anyone who knows, please jump in right away, but I thought once you got Graves’ that you had it for life. It might go in remission, but it isn’t cured, it’s controlled.
Maybe I am reading in something that didn’t happen, and that you didn’t say, but when you started getting better, did you stop taking your meds at any point? Did you ever have RAI?
I know I don’t have hardly any of the answers as I was just diagnosed in June and just been on here a short time, but I have know a lot of weight lifters in my life, and everyone of them thought they could cure anything with more weights and vitamins! If that isn’t you, then I publically apologize.
I hope you are better soon. We are all warriors with the same goal!
Valerie
Hello. I wonder if someone out there can offer some suggestions to
the problem I have encountered. The problem is that I have contracted
Graves for a second time, which I know is rare. While it seems to
be under control, the size and strength that I had acheived after taking
up weight lifting subsequent to my first bout just will not come back.As background, I first contracted Graves around 1991. I didn’t know
what I had and didn’t get checked out because I was in grad school. My
weight dropped from 195 to around 160, but I attributed it to my schedule
at the time. I finally got checked out, took my medicine and took up
weight lifting to recover my weight. This was sometime in 1993; at the
time I was the ripe young age of 36. Everything went well from there –
my weight over time rose to 200 and my benching got up to 280.Last year, I contracted Graves a second time and within around five
weeks I lost 20 pounds in weight and anywhere from 30% to 40% in strength,
depending upon the exercise. Six months later, some exercises have
come back, but I am still way down on my benching. In fact, I am still
stuck at around 225, while my weight is stable in the low 180’s.I have continued to take supplements like Phosphagen and Myoplex Iike
I was before I got Graves a second time, but to litle avail. Thanks
for listening. If you have any ideas, please post them.Thanks in advance for any ideas you may have.
James P.
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