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a look and wait see approach
I have been given the look and wait see approach for over 9 years. I have been hyperthyroid ever since, now I have had a radioactive iodine for my nodules and goiter, now I am a little hypothyroid and the doctors have not given any thyroid meds. I have been feeling terrible forever. My recent labs were 2.18 for TSH and .67 for my T4. Help me if you can. What should I do now?? Feeling the symptoms of both the hypo and hyper from time to time.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
The levels look fairly normal but the T4 is a little low-normal. If there is a fluctuation between hyper and hypo (evidenced by a true change in TSH from low to high) then another I-131 treatment or surgical removal would be a definitive way of addressing the problem -- resulting in permanent hypothyroidism requiring levothyroxine.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
I-131 is radioactive iodine -- usually results in hypothyroidism.
What is a I-131 treatment?? Is it normal after radioactive iodine treatment to be hypothyroid??
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