A friend's Graves Disease, any input?

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Registered: 05-19-2004
A friend's Graves Disease, any input?
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Sun, 01-30-2005 - 1:25pm

Here are her latest tests, she is from Egypt:
1/1/2005
REF-RANGE
T.S.H 0.01 0.35-5.5
Free T3 4.5 1.5-4.5
Fee T4 1.6 0.8-1.9

27/1/2005

REF-RANGE
T.S.H 0.01 0.35-5.5
Free T3 5.2 1.5-4.5
Fee T4 1.7 0.8-1.9

She complains of aches, pains, chest hurts, "fading away". She is taking 100 mg of thyrocil. She doesn't know what to do b/c she still feels so bad. She is asking for help. I dont know what to tell her.   She is still hyper.  Would it be best to increase her meds?   Her doc said it's ok for her to eat seafood with iodized salt!  Any input would be helpful. thanks!


April

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Registered: 11-09-2001
Sun, 01-30-2005 - 9:30pm
How long has she been on the medication? Is it possible she needs the medication changed and/or increased? Maybe it's possible that she needs to move on to the next step of treatment if the meds aren't doing it for her? Cathy :)