RAI lies was Re: question: regarding previous info , cant over-do armour

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Yes, every time I saw the doctor I was either in tears or on the

verge of crying, so I really wasn't in any shape to argue with him.

I didn't have the PTU, I had Tapazole (generic is methimazole), plus

something to slow down my heart....it was never offered as an option

to continue on those medications until the thyroid burned itself out-

the only options were RAI or surgical removal....but it wouldn't

have occurred to me to question that! Thanks, I don't feel so stupid

now!

Joyce

-- In NaturalThyroidHormones , " np_milligan "

wrote:

>

> I think also when you're in the thrall of Graves your emotional

state

> isn't one where you're well suited to carefully weighing out the

> ramificiations. At least mine sure wasn't! Maybe if someone older

> and wiser had sat down with me and explained to me what I'd be up

> against 20 years later I would have reconsidered...

>

> But I couldn't tolerate the taste of PTU. It made me sick to taste

> it, I even stuffed it into gelatin capsules so I wouldn't have to

> taste it directly, and I inhaled bits of it while I was stuffing

it in

> and tasted it off that. Foul, foul, foul! And that was the only

drug

> available at the time. What sadist decided not to put a coating on

> that medicine?

>

> Oh well, hopefully thing will improve now.

>

> >

> > They're still selling that - it's exactly what they told me in

2002,

> > and I didn't research enough because my doctor told me not to

> > believe anything I read on the internet. And I was too timid to

> > fight back then....

> >

> > Joyce

> >

> > >

> > Did they sell you the notion that RAI

> > > was a piece of cake and all you have to do is take one simple

pill

> > > everyday and you're perfectly normal? I wish the internet had

been

> > > around back then!