Re: Elsie Has anyone heard of this?

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Welcome Elsie,

When did your eyes start bulging? Was it before or after RAI?

Sleeping with your head elevated is helpful to keep down swelling in the

orbital tissues. You can elevate the bed itself or use pillows.

Are you having double vision or any other eye symptoms, like tearing and

redness and a grittty feeling in your eyes?

You really need to make an appointment with an ophthalmologist or neuro ophth

who has experience in treating thyroid eye disease. It is a separate

disorder from Graves Disease and RAI can cause it or cause it to worsen if you

have

it prior to RAI. Please have an ophth check you out.

Is your doctor monitoring you right now on TSH alone, or is he looking at

your FreeT3 and FreeT4 levels too? What are your current lab results with the

normal limits? What dose of PTU are you on and how often to you take it?

Hope you will be feeling better soon.

God bless,

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In a message dated 11/11/2003 5:50:34 PM Eastern Standard Time,

LISAREYNOLDS64@... writes:

When did your eyes start bulging? Was it before or after RAI?

Sleeping with your head elevated is helpful to keep down swelling in the

orbital tissues. You can elevate the bed itself or use pillows.

Are you having double vision or any other eye symptoms, like tearing and

redness and a grittty feeling in your eyes?

Hi ,

Thank you so much for taking the time to respond to my post.

My eyes are fine so far, and while my vision could be alot better, I also

work with tiny electronic components all day, and am on the computer for hours

each night. That may be contributing to my vision problems also. My eyes aren't

buldging thank God. The Dr mentioned sleeping on 2 pillows as we were

talking, but it wasn't directed at any problems I'm having now.

As for PTU, I take 50mg pills. I take 2 PTU pills 3x a day.

I'm going to have the Dr fax my test results to me, since he told me word of

mouth today,and I forget exactly what the reading was. Also, I'd like to have

them for my records.

Thank you again for your kind get well wishes too!

Always,

Elise**