[Anonymous]

#1163062

I think that “curable” is out of the question for now, but long term remission is possible. An acquaintance of
mine had this 10 years ago when she was 22, she stayed on PTU for a bit
over a year..she did not do RAI. Went into remission and hasn’t had a problem with it. HOWEVER,
she still has to have annual thyroid bloodtests. If she ever starts
feeling jittery or whatever again, she’ll know what it is and be on top
of it. She also never had any eye troubles. She had a baby last
year and even that hormonal hurricane didn’t trigger it.

For myself, her 10 year remission brings hope….and she’s encouraged
me not to nuke.

I also know two elderly women who did RAI when it was the only option
35 years ago. Both of them are fine. They take their synthroid every
day, no eye involvement and don’t even remember that they have Graves’.
Within a short period of time after their RAI, their lives and moods returned to
normal. They encourage me not to freak out if one day I do have to nuke!

[Anonymous]

#1056315

Hi Everyone,

Sometimes reading certain postings really screws me up! so far has I
know and have been told since getting GD is that it is not curable
once you have it you have it for life.
But on the other hand it’s treatable so long has you take your
medication. I know that I have to take one synthoid pill everyday for
the rest of my life. and also get my blood checked every other month.
Has any one been cured of Graves Disease???

All the best,

Shannon.

[Anonymous]

#1163063

AMUSING IRRELEVANT FACTS
1. In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the
first time are teenagers.
2. Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during W.W.I.
3. Einstein couldn’t speak fluently when he was nine. His parents
thought he might be retarded.
4. In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are
automobiles.
5. About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they’re
still sitting on it. (Who studied this and why? LOL
6. You’re more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in
any other weather.
7. An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
8. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who
have recently eaten bananas.
9. Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
10. The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at
night.
11. A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.
12. The condom – made originally of linen – was invented in the
early 1500’s.
13. The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by
Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
14. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn’t
give her coffee.
15. The Neanderthal’s brain was bigger than yours is.
16. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn’t wear
pants.
17. The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
18. In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no
telephones – Bhutan.
19. Every person has a unique tongue print. This could be the basis
of an X-Files episode.
20. Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
21. Women’s hearts beat faster than men’s.
22. Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry
pictures of the pets in their wallets.
23. Bubble gum contains rubber.
24. You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
25. Only 55 percent of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
26. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her
hands in Jello.
27. Even if you cut off a cockroach’s head, it can live for several
weeks.
28. Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
29. The world population of chickens is about equal to the number
of people.
30. Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice
water over his head.
31. In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the
bills.
32. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette
in South Bend, Indiana.
33. About 70 percent of Americans who go to college do it just to
make more money.
34. It’s against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in
Kansas.
35. Some toothpaste’s contain antifreeze.
36. Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
37. Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as
President Bush in 1991.
38. Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation
in the Western Pacific.
39. There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
40. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
41. Lee Harvey Oswald’s cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600
in 1992.
42. Mosquitoes have teeth.
43. Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
44. Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
45. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ,
Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
46. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for
food.
47. Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
48. 27 percent of U.S. male college students believe life is “a
meaningless existential hell.”
49. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on
when patients would die.
50. Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name
meant “plenty of excrement.”
51. Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. (Hence, the light bulb?)
52. “Kemo Sabe” means “soggy shrub” in Navajo.

[Anonymous]

#1163064

Thanks for the trivia, crazy! I really enjoyed the facts. LOL
Keep smiling, styling, and profiling!!!!

Love,

JAN(and Jake)

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