If you’ve been diagnosed with Graves’ disease, you may be treated with antithyroid medication, radioactive iodine therapy, or surgery. And, while there’s no particular diet or exercise plan ...

MANY patients receive iodine-containing medication that can alter the results of concomitantly performed determinations of radioiodine uptake or serum protein-bound iodine. When the iodine is an ...

Graves' Disease is an autoimmune disorder that ... Anti-thyroid medications: To reduce hormone production. - Radioactive iodine therapy: To shrink the thyroid gland. - Surgery: In severe cases ...

Debates regarding thyroid stunning -- a phenomenon whereby a diagnostic dose of radioiodine decreases uptake ... the presence of disease at follow-up after initial radioactive iodine therapy ...