Guest guest Posted January 8, 2003 Report Share Posted January 8, 2003 In a message dated 1/8/2003 4:48:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, Graduate-OSSG writes: > I was able to take my mind off the carbs. I got a phone call telling me I > got a job. A mere nine months. Wow. ***************************** Yay!!! We all needed some good news today! in NJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 8, 2003 Report Share Posted January 8, 2003 HURRAY FOR FAY!!!!!!!! Send some of that GOOD karma to Judy in Austin, Don in Puyallup, in Gig Harbor and anyone else laid off or unemployed! Debbie in Gig Harbor ladybostons@... www.paws2print.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 8, 2003 Report Share Posted January 8, 2003 > HURRAY FOR FAY!!!!!!!! Send some of that GOOD karma to Judy in Austin, > Don in Puyallup, in Gig Harbor and anyone else laid off or > unemployed! Add to that Lyn in Bremerton (job ends in 2-3 weeks). And her husband, who hasn't worked in 2+ years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 24, 2003 Report Share Posted October 24, 2003 Fay, If you check the file area, I just uploaded a summary about ATD use in past 20 years. It might give you some hint on some of the research. It does mention TSI in one part of the summary RAI is gaining ground everywhere, even in Europe and Japan, places where ATD and sugery was the mainstream of the treatment. Someone made comments that some research results I posted were too old. I guess she might have missed the point of resarch results. It is not the age of the research that matters. It is the quality of research that matters. It was 1953 that DNA was proposed to be double helix. Fifty years passed, it is still ture and will be true at least for another 50 years or longer. Even ATD was invented long time ago, does that mean she is not going to take them because the clinic trial was done long time ago? Science may not have all the answers to every problem. But eventually, it will have answers to it with the help from sounding resarch. Patients with Graves are usually having or prone to have other auto immune diseases, such as seasonal allergy or other problems. They have over-active immune system. Some of them might develop such problems in late their lives, To blame all the problems on RAI, that is not fair. Of course, only with sounding resarch, it then can be clarified. But people tend to only blame these on RAI. Do not get me wrong. I am not advacating RAI. I am just talking about plain facts. If you can, keep your thyroid with ATD. The chances are from 26-60%, depends different research, even with long term research. The rest of the unlucky ones including me will have to decide what to do with it. Just hate to give newbies the idea that ATD will cure every Graves and RAI will lead all the problems. Happy talking. Best wishes. Liang > > Endocrinol Jpn. 1991 Apr;38(2):223-7. Related Articles, Links > > > > Antithyroid drug therapy for Graves' hyperthyroidism: is long- term > > administration of a small maintenance dose necessary? > > I find all this fascinating. I don't have internet access and I would > otherwise have been too intimidated to think of tackling these kinds of > works. And yet once they're handed to me I find them accessible enough > that I can even make a few intelligent comments ;-) > > - The study doesn't mention if TSI was tested at all. > - The study doesn't mention how the ATD was administered. I suspect it > was administered PROPERLY - starting at a presumably appropriately high > dose and gradually lowered. One of the dialogues quack endos employ goes > like this: > Dr. (dismissing ATDs): Noone uses ATDs anymore; ATD use is down > everywhere. > Patient: In Japan they use ATDs with what I've heard is respectable > success. > Dr: Yeah, but thanks to the bomb they're leery of it over there. But it's > changing there too. > > So while radioactivity for medical treatments may be gaining ground, for > now, Japanese endocrinologists still have more of a handle on ATD use > than their American counterparts. > > Take care, Fay > > > ________________________________________________________________ > The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! > Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! > Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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