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How Graves' Disease Sufferers Can Avoid Radioactive Iodine Treatment

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Hadriel Sam
How Graves' Disease Sufferers Can Avoid Radioactive Iodine Treatment

If you have Graves' Disease, or any other  Thyroid Rescue 911 Review  form of hyperthyroidism, and are considering radioactive iodine to treat your condition, you might want to first look into other types of treatment methods. Many people don't realize the potential consequences of receiving treatment with radioactive iodine. As a healthcare professional and someone who was diagnosed with Graves' Disease, I can tell you that avoiding radioactive iodine was one of the best choices I ever made.

To better understand why you should avoid this harsh type of treatment, it's important to at least have a basic understanding of what this treatment does, as well as the potential consequences if you choose this treatment method. The thyroid gland contains iodine, which it needs in order to manufacture the thyroid hormones. Radioactive iodine is usually given orally to the patient. It then moves through the bloodstream to the thyroid gland, and essentially destroys many of the cells of the thyroid gland to prevent it from producing thyroid hormone.

If you visit Google and type in "radioactive iodine", one of the first articles listed talks about how there are few side effects when taking radioactive iodine, and that these side effects don't occur too frequently. But then the author casually tells the reader the following: "Once the thyroid becomes underactive, a single daily pill of thyroid hormone, T4, must be taken for life. Although most patients are completely cured, a few people will need a second treatment."

Radioactive Iodine IS NOT a Cure For Graves' Disease To summarize what this doctor said, by receiving radioactive iodine you will be completely cured of hyperthyroidism, but will become hypothyroid for the rest of your life, and will be forced to take synthetic or natural thyroid hormone daily...for as long as you live. Call me insane, but this doesn't sound like a cure to me. And when treating a disorder such as Graves' Disease, you need to keep in mind that radioactive iodine does nothing to address the immune system component of this autoimmune disorder, which is extremely important.

 

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