Hi all...I don't normally chat with this disease....I am usually in the Myasthenia Gravis chat...my son, who is 8 years old, was diagnosed a year ago with Grave's disease...he tried methimazol and PTU...neither worked well for him...began having arthritic pain in most of his joints...even his liver began to swell on the PTU, so we stopped medicine therapy. We irradiated his thyroid in November last year and he was hypothyroid by first of January...and is now euthyroid and doing well...other than he was recently diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis. His Grave's is much better since we got rid of that darn thyroid!. Hope all goes well for you...Heidi