In a message dated 5/15/2008 11:28:55 A.M. US Eastern Standard Time,  
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My  daughter was treated with radioactive idodine to treat her Graves  
disease.  She had the treatment about 4 weeks ago.  She is  suffering from 
extreme depression and mood swings now.  >>>>
Tragically, the most common treatment I have seen for Grave's Disease  in the 
USA is burn out the person's thyroid with Radioactive Iodine  and let them 
languor in Hypothyroidism for the rest of their lives. 
 
Since Graves (Basdow's) Disease is usually self limited, a common treatment  
in Europe is to used anti thyroid medications in combination with thyroid  
replacement for a year or so, and gradually taper the treatment off. There is no  
permanent damage done to the patient, no radiation exposure, and no big fee 
for  a host of people involved with the treatment. The latter is probably the 
reason  that the European treatment is not popular over here.  
 
Please get your daughter to a physician who knows enough to look  at the 
patient, rather than the lab work and who understands that Depression and  / or 
Anxiety are among the most frequent early symptoms of Hypothyroidism.
 
Psychiatric problems associated with Hypothyroidism have been well known  
since the 1830's, and the definitive paper on the topic was written in 1888 by  
the Clinical Society of London. "Myxedema Madness" has been a major cause of  
Psychiatric hospitalizations since the institutions began. Unfortunately,   
Pharmaceutical companies dominate the mental health sciences; and less  
expensive, more effective treatments are seldom advertised or  taught. 
 
A prayer that your daughter gets what she needs to get well.
 
I hope that this helps.
 
Doc Don
 
(AKA D. Michael, MD, PC)



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