Lethal side effects from ATDs

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My endocrinologist told me that so far she had had one case each of

agranulcytosis and drug-induced hepatitis in her patients on ATDs and both had

pulled through. She is not originally from the U.S. but now teaches at my state

capital's medical college. Her belief is that all three approaches to Graves'

have pros and cons, and she suggested that ATDs were the least invasive.

My impression before I found this group was that it made more sense to fix the

immune system than to destroy its targets, especially since my body seems to

have recovered from transient periods of hypo and hyperthyroidism in the past.

My parents are European. My maternal grandmother was treated with radiation for

fibroid uterine tumors by a very progressive gynecologist (who was also her

grandson). Ten years later she died of stomach cancer. There's no other case of

this in the family, and her spouse lived to 105! Makes me want to avoid

radiation.

Best wishes,