Talk to your doc: The choice of treatment encompasses many factors; talk to your endocrinologist. One big factor: who would do the surgery? Complications of surgery are lower with someone who does a lot of thyroid surgery, rather than a case now and then. If you have graves eye disease, surgery may be preferred over rai.
Answered 1/21/2014
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Assumption: graves?: It sounds like you are asking about treatments for Graves' disease? You have 3 options. Medicine for life. Radioactive iodine which may have to be repeated a 2 nd time. Thyroid surgery immediately fixes the problem but has low risks of bleeding, infection, hoarseness, very low risk hypoparathyroidism, and extremely low risk of tracheotomy.
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