[mushywood]

in reply to: methimazole and selenium #1173879

Hi everyone and thank you for your answers!
actually, I haven’t done a lot of researches about selenium, my doctor only told me about those studies -and he worked about some of them- (and yes, I’m following his suggested dosage). He told me there has been just one study that sows how selenium can help to stop the immune system’s “attack” to the thyroid in not very serious cases of the graves and that I have almost 60% of possibilities to heal. I think he made me start this “cure” for my low methimazole dosage and my age, since I don’t have eyes complications and a surgery wouldn’t be the best for my thyroid when I’m still growing. He also made me stop eating sushi and hamburgers (for their high iodium content).
In the past years, I already have tried to stop the cure with methimazole 3 times but it never worked more than a couple of months.
Anyways I should keep going for another three months and then gradually suspend the methimazole.

thank you again for your help, I’ll keep you posted!

Federica

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