[Anonymous March 30, 1997 at 4:12 am Post count: 93172]

#1056398

Thanks for the encouraging words. I need the warm fuzzies right now. The BB is unusually quiet tonight.

Love, Luci

[Anonymous March 30, 1997 at 6:43 pm Post count: 93172]

#1163294

It’s hard to try to decide what to do when you don’t like any alternative.
I guess you just have determine what you feel most comfortable with and
get it done. we tend to forget that we’re lucky that there is not only
1 treatment for these problems, but more than one, and that sooner or
later something will work. We do have some people on the BB with
nerve compression and they’ve recovered very well. So be hopeful.
Others have been there and made it and you will too!
It’s very lonely and scary when you’re the one who has to go through it,
bcause all the friends and family in the world cannot change places with you.
So just get in there and do something. I think the worst alternative
is to do nothing. (that’s me!) Then you get frustrated with yourself
too.
Hang in there. We ALL recover.
Or in the words of an area physician. You’re lucky to have THIS disease.
It’s so easy to treat. LOL 8:) (exophthalmic smiley)
Buck up kid, it will soon be behind you.

[Anonymous March 30, 1997 at 7:10 pm Post count: 93172]

#1163295

Thanks Joan. It helps to talk about it. Neither alternative appeals to me, to tell you the truth. Thanks for your input, though.

Luci

PS: Regarding your post on educating our doctors through this BB. I’ve discussed this BB with my endo and he gave nodding approval to the concept, though I doubt he’d have the time to follow along or lend it the credibility it deserves if he did. If we could somehow manage to organize all this mother lode of relevant data into some type of summary form and get it published in a medical or quasi-medical journal, the docs may take note of it and listen. Anyway, that’s my take on it.

[Anonymous February 19, 1998 at 8:46 am Post count: 93172]

#1163296

thank you for your words of encouragement!! I had no idea that there were so many individuals fighting Graves disease

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