You guys are so helpful, thank you thank you! I was leaning towards surgery and now I feel much better about it- I just wanted to make sure I was not missing something. I posted on the Babycenter.com forum on thyroid issues too (where I have formed a relationship with a couple of girls) and everyone had similar responses.
We live in Trinidad, in the South Caribbean off Venezuela. We moved there last year from Brazil, where the healthcare is topnotch and where we had our first child. There is only one endo there who is properly trained (in the UK) and she is still not that great. She did diagnose me with Graves and was right, and I suppose I can use her as backup. But my doc here will handle my dosing and monitoring and I will email him all of my blood test results. am seeing one other endo today for a second opinion and then choose.
My good friend with Hashi’s came over last night (we are in Houston now, where I am from so if anyone knows of great endos here I would be willing to get a third opinion!) and hers was totally eaten away and is now gone and she said she has no symptoms or side effects from meds, etc so that made me feel better too.
And can’t see your posts here now that I hit reply so if I forgot something let me know! I printed out the info on the link and am going to read it right now. Thanks again!
