Re: 50% cure ON anti Thyroid Drugs?????????

September 8, 2003

Hi Amy,

50% is a good average for all the studies done. In Japan the rates are much

higher and in Europe they're also higher than 50%, probably because both

countries have more experience with the use of ATDs. According to Harvard's P.

Larsen, most everyone can achieve remission on ATDs. Often, though, people are

taken off them without doing the correct tests to see if remission has

occurred. I wouldn't use the word cured though since it's actually remission

that's

attained. Take care, Elaine

September 8, 2003

Cured would be an inappropriate word to use. Remission is more accurate. GD

can subside, and then be triggered or return at a later time. I think that

the remission rate with ATDs is more like 30%. I think this percentage

would increase significantly if patients were managed well on the

medications, so that number isn't so bad!

At 06:55 PM 9/8/2003, you wrote:

>I was not under the impression that this drugs cures

>50% If anyone has infomation on this percentage or if

>the statement in the article is correct Please email

>me

September 10, 2003

Dear Elaine,

This idea of cure or remission has always intrigued me. I am in remission,

yet I still have a noticibley enlarged thyroid gland which swells instantly

under stress! I don't feel I am in the same thyroid state that I was before

I developed Graves' and that is what I would call a cure. Do you think some

people manage to achieve this? That some people who have had Graves' would

be indesipherable at a cell level in the thyroid gland, from those who have

not had Graves'?

Is there any reserach on this?

DAWN ROSE

In remissioin for about 18 months now, off all meds and not using any herbs

at this point. Need to loose the weight I gained on ATDs - currently going