delusions of grandeur?

[Guest guest]

Pam L, I hope you're still on.

New endo was very nice, but he also will not prescribe PTU because

it's too close to Tapazole. He calmly and nonthreateningly asked me

what my reasons were for resisting RAI. I gave him 3 reasons, all of

which he refuted quite smoothly. I told him I think I'm a good

candidate for remission, as I'm young and my RAI uptake levels were

borderline and my labs are improving (he also made the same deduction

that we all did, that possibly the TSH is lagging behind FT3 & FT4).

I told him that itching is a classic symptom of GD and that I was

itchy before I ever heard the word Tapazole, and he conceded on that

point. He said that that was all well and good except for the hives,

which negate all progress because I could still have a deathly

allergic reaction. I told him I still want to think about it and

keep taking the Tapazole at 15mg. He made me to promise to go to

emergency room if I had the sore throat or fever and he'll see me in

one week with another lab. I was so proud of my dietary changes and

he said they wouldn't make a difference. I had to pick my jaw up

off the floor.

He said all of this so sweetly and with such seeming regard for my

welfare that I'm wondering if I really am just deluded. Is he

simply worried about being the doctor who allowed me to have an

allergic reaction to ATD's? He did mention it...

Funny, I found out I had Graves because the tech at United Blood

Services said my HR was too high. They wouldn't let me donate my B+

blood that day, which alarmed me all the way to the urgent care.

So now I'm home, my throat really is a bit tender from all the dang

squeezing he did and I'm having a fit of despair.

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Tap (15mg) and Top (50mg)

DX 10-15-02