Overactive Thyroid - Medicine is not Vegan friendly 13th November 2002
... common antithyroid meds are Propylthiouracil (PTU), Tapazole , Carbimazol, Neomercazol, Thiouvacile, Basdine, etc...
... Hi HybridWolf. I was under the impression that Tapazole did not include gelatin. From rxlist:
Tapazole...
... ArtfulD:
Hi HybridWolf. I was under the impression that Tapazole did not include gelatin. From rxlist:
But, perhaps...
Let's post our stories here. I will start with mine: 29th December 2000
... getting my levels lowered and straightened out with the Tapazole and atenolol....the have cut my prescription in half...
... his diagnosis and immediately put me on inderal and tapazole . I had, by this time, lost about fifteen pounds. ... who have had RAI therapy.
I have been off and on tapazole for years. I will be perfect for about three years ... they will not treat me. One actually gave me six tapazole pills and left me to decide. Well, he was fired immediatel ... very well for about four years now taking 10 mg. of tapazole and inderal (I have high blood pressure) but recently...
... were off and sent me to a specialist. He put me on Tapazole which I had a reaction to and stopped taking. When ... Janaury. Last year when I had the reaction to the Tapazole the dr. told me there was no medication I could take...
... still with me, but my heart rate is down. I was on Tapazole for two weeks before the surgery but felt ill from...
... surgery, when I gained 10 from being on Verapamil, Tapazole and the iodine drops. I only lost 10 pounds while...
... decided that I should start anti-thyroid medication ( Tapazole , one of the ATD’s) and continue on with my planned ... this and the Endo called me to increase my dose of Tapazole . I was to see him when I returned.
In July, when ... brief period when I was severely overdosed on the Tapazole and taken off the medication completely for a short ... instructions to the letter regarding dosing of my Tapazole . I had appointments every 3 months with new labs ... reports I found that my Endocrinologist had INCREASED my Tapazole dose when my lab results showed that I was entering ... high and my FT4 was way too low prior to the last Tapazole increase….he should have DECREASED my Tapazole at ... blood work, my Endo told me to discontinue taking the Tapazole for 5 days. When I saw my test results I knew that ... I’ve made.
My new Endocrinologist restarted me on Tapazole but this Endocrinologist did things differently. ... dosing schedule was to take much smaller doses of Tapazole 3 times a day. (So I went from taking 15mg of Tapazole ... ONCE a day to taking 2.5mg of Tapazole THREE times a day for a total of 7.5mg per day) As ... doses. I remained stable on a small dose (2.5mg) of Tapazole for almost 2 years. Today I take 1.25mg of Tapazole ... are low enough, I will wean completely off of the Tapazole . As of today, I have been taking Tapazole for 4 years ... since September of 2000 with a very small dose of Tapazole )
UPDATE: I am currently in remission - as of July ... and my antibodies are less than 2%. Total time on Tapazole was 4 years and 3 months. Clearly, for me, the anti ... attained 7/11/03....YAHOO!!
(dx Graves 4/99, treatment w/ Tapazole and Atenolol)...
... back in 1997. After 18 months of anti-thyroid meds ( Tapazole ) I went into remission, which lasted until 2001. ... I have been taking Tapazole ever since to keep my thyroid under control, which...
... of it I do not understand. Anyway I have been given tapazole but I was hoping there was a diet of some sort instead...
... constantly, and my heart rate was 124! She started me on Tapazole and I feel so much better. I feel like I just took...
