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in reply to: Terrified of Graves #1184160

Kimberly wrote:

Hello – Yes, RAI = Radioactive Iodine. Definitely do your research and understand all the risks before pursuing this option. The “Treatment Options” thread in the announcements section of the forum has a couple of nice links that go through the risks and benefits of antithyroid medications, surgery, and RAI.

If you are feeling well and your levels are close to stable, you might even seek a second opinion before going the RAI route. We have members here who have been happy with this treatment option – but once you make the choice to do RAI or surgery, you don’t get a “do-over”!

Hi Kimberly,

Thanks for the 2 quick replies to my posts. I followed your suggestion and arrived to the “treatment options” and read your prior post (April 22, 2012). I was able to print Dr. David S. Cooper’s article but running into trouble trying to find the ATA article. I click the link listed in your article using both methods (direct click and via open new tab and/or window). Both I got this instead “2015 American Thyroid Association Management Guidelines for Adult Patients with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: The American Thyroid Association Guidelines Task Force on Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer” but your post says I need to get to http://www.thyroid.org/wp-content/uploads/publications/guidelines/thy.2010.0417.pdf. Is it possible the link has been replaced or changed. I tried searching within ATA’s website but couldn’t find the 2010 article. I know you are much familiar with the subject so can you help me by looking into locating that exact article. Thank you so much Kimberly!

James

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in reply to: Please Support the GDATF’s 25th Anniversary Fund! #1183908

I am a new member to your site. I was told from one of the post that I can support this site via smile.amazon.com. I am a frequent Amazon shopper so want to support through that route too. Is “Graves Disease Foundation Inc” the right charity to select within “smile.amazon.com – select your charity screen”? Please help me to choose the right one so the support goes to this organization. Thanks.

James

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in reply to: Terrified of Graves #1184158

I want to thank you all for all those posts sharing all your experiences.

I was diagnosed with grave disease back in Jan 2015. I have been on Methimazole since then (started with 5mg daily and now up to 15mg because my tsh and t4 are still not within normal range). My endo (a Kaiser Permenante doctor) has been repeatedly urging me to take the radioactive iodine pill to zap my thyroids and to be on hormone therapy for rest of my life. Can Kimberly, Shirley, Liz or JHinrichsen let me know whether that iodine pill treatment is the same as “RAI” that I have seen gets mentioned in all previous posts? I sure hope it is not the same as what JHinrichsen wrote in her post.

My 5/13/16 blood test results indicate my t4 and tsh are very close to the normal range(not there yet) so I am torn between continuing with the medicine or following my endo’s recommendation of taking that radioactive iodine pill.

Thank you all for taking the time to share and good luck to all of us with Graves’ Disease!

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