At 10:02 PM 1/23/98 -0500, you wrote:
>My Hashi's just seems to constantly drive up my need for Synthroid. I've
>doubled (now taking 200) my dosage in the past 12 months. I was wondering
>if it's possible to just kill or remove the thyroid and be done with it? At
>least the Synthroid dosage could be stabilized and I wouldn't be spaced out
>all the time. I'm sure there are other problems which can arise, which is
>why I ask…I'm ready to be enlightened.
Not Hashi's here, but am Graves-RAI-hypo. The RAI kills off a portion, or
all of, the thyroid. In my case it killed off all of it. This has not
stabilized the Synthroid dosage. In the 8 or so years since I've had it
done my dose has fluctuated between .15 and .3 up and down. I don't think
killing or removing the thyroid is a solution to stabilizing the medication.
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