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11 years ago
My grandmother found out the other day that her thyroid levels were high, and that she needed to see an endocrinologist.  Her doctor is bad about taking a long time to set things up, and my grandma is 81 years old and very nervous about this.  Do you have trouble with your thyroid, and how have you treated it?  I've looked things up online, but I would like to hear from people who have dealt with this directly, or indirectly through friends or family with this illness.
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11 years ago
First you need a diagnosis. Overactive thyroid is not a diagnosis. It is only a symptom. You need a TSI test to see if the diagnosis is Grave's disease. (Grave's disease is the number one most common cause of overactive thyroid.) If the diagnosis is Grave's disease, then the treatment is methimizole. Methimizole is a simple, cheap, generic prescription drug.
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