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Old 05-21-2010, 11:34 PM #2
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If you peek at the Hashimoto's thread, here, you'll see my husband had Graves. He battled the military Drs (the plural is relative; he was at Kev, Iceland) insisting that he had a serious problem and they were missing it He was eventually diagnosed, emergency medivac'd mainland, in very dicey medical condition.

Anger? Um, does seriously wanting to kill his most beloved, dearest elder teenage daughter with a baseball bat because she hadn't emptied the dishwasher sound like anger? Nothing even remotely happened - in fact she didn't even know about his thoughts until she was a mother and military wife, herself, many years later and she laughed hysterically. Say what, Daddy?

What kind of treatment is your husband on? If it's been 3 months on treatment, it sounds like maybe antithyroid drugs (ATD) to put his thyroid into remission? This takes a long time to put the thyroid in remission (12-18 months). Current statistics didn't look that promising to my husband when I asked him to look at their success rate. Has your husband considered just having it deactivated completely (through surgical removal or radio-iodine), and then managing it synthetically, like with the drug Synthroid?

Graves is hard. Anger often goes with it. I personally think it's harder on the body than my Hashimoto's at onset. But, there are faster treatments for Graves (just my observation).

Good luck - I know where you are
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