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ohhh, m sorry sumi, thought i did send you the URL for

my website. There is really nothin interesting

written about Grave's Disease on my website, just

pictures to compare my tremendous weight gain after

RAI and my nursing graduation last Aug 8 2002. Okey,

m not really that good in expressing my

thoughts(english is my second language) so i thought

pictures would do it. W/ Jody's/the group's support

and encouragement, i DID IT, I PASSED NURSING!!!.. My

life has been miserable since RAI. As a student nurse,

thought good doctors knew what they were doin when

treating their patients..thought they knew what's best

for their patients for them to get well but now I

learned my lesson, we shouldn't trust anyone, when it

comes to taking care of our OWN HEALTH, not the doctor

or

even us nurses...(nurses sometimes are overworked

treating a lot of patients, they are likely to make

mistakes) I guess my former endo(he's fired) was

getting something from the drug companies, I maybe

wrong but after my RAI, he was giving me different

samples of synthetic thyroid meds, FREE supplies for

MONTHS! WE SHOULD

ALL BE IN CHARGED OF OUR HEALTH. i TRUSTED my endo and

EVEN MY cousin doctor. THEY said RAI was the only

option i got to treat my GD since i refused

SURGERY....and hypo is very easy to manage than hyper,

Now I know that this is not TRUE!(jody is right!)..It

was too late for

me because I didn't find this support group before

having the RAI....After reading all

jody's/elaine's/GROUPS' EMAILS and oh yes,

yours/paM's/group's websites, I realized and learning

that there

are other alternative treatments for GD. I had

very mild symptoms when I was hyper, no fatigue, no

muscle aches, no brain fog, I WAS on top of the world

because I could EAT ANYTHIng I wanted and NO WEIGHT

GAIN,(weighed 114 lbs) but my eyes were buggiN me, It

was so dry and right eye started to bulge, (that's

when I got worried.) My cousin

doctor told me that If I don't go for RAI, I would get

blind and would die of heart failure d/t

palpitations(my resting pulse rate was 100-120). My

grandmother also had GD, found this out from my dad

after my RAI treatment. My dad/grandma never heard of

GD during their times, my father just knew that

grandma's eyes starting to bulge(exophthalmos) It

happened when she was 39yo & never got treatment, I

remember @ age 68, she looked very young for her age,

no gray hair(she never used hair dyes) & no weight

problem. Her only problems then were watery eyes and

ptosis(drooping of eyelid). Her death was unexpected @

age 68, she died of heart attack. well for me, i

rather die fast and quick like that of my grandma's

than reach 90 y0 n suffer from no energy, pain d/t

terrible muscle aches(hypo symptoms), obesity and

other illnesses & bedridden.

BTW: for dry/watery eyes, my ophthalmologist put

PUNCTAL plugs on both my eyes' tear ducts. It's a

simple painless procedure & I never have problem w/

dry/watery eyes since then, even after RAI treatment.

it's almost 5am, i think it's about time 4 me 2 go.

Let me know sumi if you have put more additional

pics/stories on your website, it's COOL!

take care all

chie

~~i really have no good advice/info to share to

everyone, only my experience w/ GD, expressed on my

own simple words~~.

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