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A member asked:
Do doctors know of natural alternatives after having radioactive iodine treatment for graves disease?
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No: This is one not to play around with. Untreated graves' will kill you. Your options include thyroid suppressors (which are based on stuff that occurs in vegetables, if that appeals to your sense of the natural, which is reasonable) and surgery as well as radioactive iodine. I'm simply glad you have the luxury of asking -- in the old days, graves' promised an especially miserable death.
Answered 6/21/2013
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