Re: ATD induced low WBC, ATD-induced life-threatening allergies and thyroid storm

[Guest guest]

I have to add that my husband has diagnosed Graves' many times and treated

many patients for Graves'-related illnesses just not those really serious

conditions that I mentioned.

Take care,

dx & RAI 1987 (at age 24)

> Hi Everyone-

>

> This comes up again and again so I thought I'd post about it. ATD-induced

low WBC count, ATD-induced life-threatening allergies and thyroid storm are

very rare. Yet we're constantly told by doctors that that's why we have to

undergo permanent treatments.

>

> My husband is an attending physician and the medical director of the

emergency department at the only Level 1 trauma center in the entire San

Joaquin Valley. That's a huge swath of area between San Francisco and Los

Angeles.

>

> He has been practicing for 15 years in a very busy emergency department

and has never seen ATD-induced low WBC, ATD-induced life-threatening

allergies or thyroid storm. He knows about them and how to treat them but

he's never had a patient with any of those conditions. He only has 2

friends that are emergency physicians that have seen thyroid storm and he

knows a lot of doctors. Even my endo, who has been practicing for over 20

years, has only seen thyroid storm 3 times. Two of those 3 times were in

the same uncompliant patient who refused to take his ATDs and he did die the

2nd time. The other patient recovered.

>

> I got the impression when I was diagnosed that it happened frequently.

>

> Anyhow, I had to get my anecdotal view about this in because I get mad

everytime I see a doctor push those as the reasons to have RAI.

>

> Take care,

>

>

> dx & RAI 1987 (at age 24)