Guest Name Paula
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From: Michigan
Comments: Thank you sharing you experience with others. I am 30 years old with graves disease. It has been 2 years since I found out.
Sign Time: January 24 2000 at 11:47:33
Guest Name JENNIFER PACKWOOD
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From: PAROWAN, UTAH
Comments: I'VE HAD GRAVES DISEASE FOR 3 YEARS. IT'S ALMOST UNDER CONTROL. I AM 24 YEARS OLD.
Sign Time: January 23 2000 at 01:27:20
Guest Name Steve Herzfeld
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From: Austin, Texas
Comments: Just diagnosed with Graves' and checking it out.
Sign Time: January 22 2000 at 23:48:21
Guest Name Connie Latham
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From: 210 N. Locust Momence, Illinois
Comments: I just found out I have G.D.. All I did was walk into a doctors office. I was tremmering from top to bottom,and blling like a baby. I might be a little late going to the doctors, what do you think. They had no trouble guessing what my problems were, they sent me for a test on my thyroids, and made an appointment with a speicalist the same day. They had no dought what was wrong with me. Dec. 15, 1999 was my first appointment,today I start my radio active cocktail as some have called it. I'm scared! Thank You Connie
Sign Time: January 20 2000 at 08:20:21
Guest Name Jeanine Ashforth
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From: Plymouth, MA
Comments: Am at the library on my way from the hospital. Stopped in the ER for what I thought was mono - and the Dr. said, "My, what big eyes you have! Have you ever been tested for thyroid disease?" In asking him what large eyes had to do with my thyroid, I also learned about the possible connection between my thyroid and my extreme, irregular periods; my "moodiness"; and that perhaps my 'ADD', for which I'm taking expensive, hardcore prescription stimulants, may not be ADD but instead an overactive thyroid. My mother had, and has, thyroid problems. Since I didn't know they were hereditary, I never thought to ask for tests on myself. I, too, now wonder why the host of doctors I've seen over my 22 years never thought to suggest these tests. The ER doctor today, harried and overbooked as he was, seemed to think (given my symptoms and family history) that for me a thyroid problem was the most evident diagnosis in the world. Visiting this site constitutes my first piece of research; I'm heading off now to further inform myself, as I no longer trust some random, busy physician to discover what's going on with me! If you knew how much money I've spent, uninsured, on psychiatrists and psychologists and, recently, ADD medications, trying to find the cause of these swings and pains and problems -!! I'm glad to have found this site. And I urge everyone here to stop doubting themselves & their symptoms, hit the books, and teach themselves all they can about themselves, on their own!
Sign Time: January 18 2000 at 14:42:26
Guest Name Cheri Wilcox
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From: Elgin, Texas
Comments: THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! I am 31 years old, and I was diagnosed with GD in Sept. 1993, after having symptoms and being misdiagnosed for 5 years. I decided on RAI after having a severe allergic reaction to meds, and approx. 2 months later, I became hypo. I have fought this crappy disease for so long now, I don't even remember what it feels like to feel "normal". It seems that whenever my T3 & T4 levels are acceptable, my TSH goes out of whack, and when my TSH is normal, my T3 & T4 go nuts. I am so tired and sick of it all, but I know I have to beat it somehow. I just got my most recent results last week, and my TSH is now way out there at 54. HERE WE GO AGAIN!!!!!
Sign Time: January 18 2000 at 13:03:50
Guest Name Renee MacKenzie
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From: Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Comments: I just wanted to let you or anyone else that will see this comment, that I am thrilled to have found this website. Ive learned sooo much about a disease that Ive had for ten yrs now in about three days of reading from this site and the links. I would be thrilled to receive an email from you. Take care, Renee
Sign Time: January 17 2000 at 20:12:53
Guest Name Francesca Merchant
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From: Bremerton, Washington (for now)
Comments: I'm so happy to find such great information about Graves and all its frustrating ups and downs. Wouldn't it sometimes be easier for others to understand if we actually had visible symptoms?!!
Sign Time: January 14 2000 at 18:54:23
Guest Name Deanie
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From: Columbus Ohio
Comments: My sister and I both have graves disease and the difference in the way we are affected by the same disease is unreal. I really appreciate all the stories and look forward to an end of this!! Any stories, info. we look forward to hearing.
Sign Time: January 13 2000 at 21:55:22
Guest Name Winnifred Henderson
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Comments: I was diagnosed in 1986 after my eyes began to pop out of the sockets and my energy totally left me. My endrnconolgist used radioactive iodine in my case and I take a pill a day .As long as I take the medication I am left with only severe attacts of diarea from time to time ,for which I take Imodeum . I am now ok otherwise
Sign Time: January 13 2000 at 20:27:20
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