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Hi Jody,

On a low ATD dose, twice a day dosing is fine.

Sometimes, when you lower your dose you can notice a few temporary hyper

symptoms for a few days. Probably not at your low dose, but if so, they should

go

away within a week and are generally not troublesome but they can scare people

into thinking they're hyper. It would be good to have more tests in 4 weeks.

The T3 uptake is old-fashioned and no longer needed now that we have tests to

measure FT4 and FT3. The uptake doesn't measure thyroid hormone. We use T3 as

a reagent to measure levels of binding proteins. Take care, elaine

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Thanks Elaine,

I am reducing now back to 5mg methimazole, (2.5mg 2xday, can't figure

out how to split accurately into 3 doses. I guess I should see how

that goes and then perhaps consider a further reduction?

My PCP is actually very accomodating, doesn't push any one thing over

another and is quite willing to admit he isn't an expert in Graves or

Hyper-T for that matter. The lab had messed up on the July7 testing

as PCP told me yesterday when TSH panel is ticked on the form they

should also be doing FT4 and T3uptake too. That was the first time I

only ever got a TSH result back. So now I make sure fT4 and T3 are

written at the top under special instuctions.

I would really like to thank everyone on this list as this group has

been a wealth of information over the past 8 months. I hope that

someday perhaps I will know enough to contribute on a more regular

basis.

Thanks again

jody

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