Hi, everyone. I am doing very well with the MG, but I am having a flare-up of my Graves' disease (autoimmune hyperthyroidism), which had been in remission for six years. For many reasons, I don't want to kill my thyroid with radioactive iodine. But I have read that methimazole and other thyroid suppressants can worsen MG permanently. I took methimazole for the first time for a few months in the spring of 2009 (I had always used PTU before that--I've had Graves' for almost 20 years). I came down with my first MG symptoms in the fall of 2009 (after a short bout with H1N1). There may be a connection.

Does anyone have any knowledge or ideas about how to deal with this? My neuro isn't knowledgeable about Graves', and my endo isn't knowledgeable about MG. Thanks.

Abby