re feivel: why hyper patients should avoid RAI even though the vast majority of the endocrinologists in the US recommend it:
It will leave a patient hypO for life, and not all docs modulate it well. (I have undying thanks to Rebbetzin Weisenfeld zt”l for bringing up that point, which made me think it over.)
The risk of developing thyroid eye disease increases; if already present it will almost definitely be exacerbated.
Many more reasons. Check out the graves_support@yahoogroup board. The homepage, when I last checked it out is excellent.
To the olam: does this win the prize for greatest tangent from the original topic 😉