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  • herring
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    December 13, 2013 at 3:38 pm
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    in reply to: Maximum amount of time you can be on meds? #1181759

    Wow, thanks, this is way more information than I was expecting.

    I was on 15mg/3 tablets a day for most of the last year, I don’t know if thats a low or high amount? It was twice that when I started. My specialist did make me stop cold turkey and I went hyper again pretty quickly.

    I’ll definitely ask about the liver function and white blood cell count. Thanks for the help!

    herring
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    January 17, 2013 at 1:29 am
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    in reply to: Sports Injuries and Graves Disease #1176499

    Well, I definitely had a lot of muscle wasting when it first developed, but when I talked to my doctor recently about bone/muscle issues she said that since my levels are all in the normal range (on medication) it’s basically like I don’t have the disease anymore so I wouldn’t have any current problems from the disease, including the muscle things. Is that true?

    herring
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    January 15, 2013 at 2:00 am
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    in reply to: Sports Injuries and Graves Disease #1176497

    My GP had referred me to a sports physio who referred me to the podiatrist. I was a bit surprised by the referral but apparently its a standard check for shin splints – they took footage of me walking and just checked out my legs and feet physically and sent a letter with the info back to my other doctors, they didn’t actually recommend much, and just mentioned this link in passing. I have been trying to ask my GP about bone problems/wasting – I’m also lactose intolerant and vitamin D deficient so I’m sure I wasn’t doing too well anyway – but she doesn’t seem to think its a big issue, I’ll have to keep pushing it.

    I’ve been trying to google but not much has come up. Maybe I’ll get onto my uni database to see if I can find anything.

    herring
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    November 7, 2012 at 2:05 am
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    in reply to: Absent minded #1174970

    While I was doing research for a neuroscience essay I searched Graves’ Disease (as you do) and apparently new research has shown that it can cause actual, measurable brain changes that may be permanent, or at least longer lasting than they thought, so that may be why the absent mindedness is persisting.

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