Re: voice?

[Guest guest]

Hoarseness is typically associated with hypOT. I suspect you are hypO right

now, but again, need the lab results.

At 11:53 AM 8/3/2003, you wrote:

>I have problems with my voice,after the RAI at one point my voice

>was allmost gone for a few days. there are times now my voice will

>get rough and shortly after it gets rough i will feel as if i am

>going to passout,i will have to sit and rest for a few min. or

>longer sometimes. is this part of the graves?

[Guest guest]

Hi ph,

Everything you say is happening is hypo.

Once the RAI kills the thyroid, you MUST be taking replacement hormone. THEN

this stuff will go away.

Until then, it will continue to get worse.

Do you have health insurance ?

Your regular doctor can run the needed lab work and prescribe the

replacement hormone. You should not need a doctors appointment to get these

labs done.

If it were ME, I would walk into the doctors office and tell them I had the

RAI , how long ago, that I am NOT on any medicine yet, and that I MUST have

the blood tests done.

They will probably try to tell you , that you have to wait and wait to see

the doctor, but I would keep telling them how very sick I am, and I really

need HELP now.

There will probably be some sitting and waiting in the reception area, while

they run back and forth, and the doctors assistant talks to you. Then she

will have to wait for the doctor to come out from the patient he is seeing.

THEN he should OK a lab slip, and she will come back and give it to you, and

tell you where to go to get your blood drawn.

If they do not do any of this, please keep trying to tell them how SICK you

are. They will have to listen.

-Pam L -