The difficulty in curing hyperthyroidism in men may be due to factors such as stopping the medication when the course of treatment is insufficient and relapsing after treatment.
1. Stopping the medication when the treatment is insufficient: the cycle of hyperthyroidism medication is relatively long, usually takes more than a year, if the treatment cycle is insufficient to arbitrarily stop the medication, it is very easy to cause hyperthyroidism to relapse, which makes it difficult to be cured.
2. Relapse after treatment: drug treatment of hyperthyroidism is usually the use of antithyroid drugs such as propylthiouracil, drug treatment has a high relapse rate of 50%; iodine 131 treatment has a low relapse rate, but may induce hypothyroidism, need to take levothyroxine sodium tablets for life, resulting in difficult to cure.
In addition, studies have shown that the recurrence of hyperthyroidism may also be related to factors such as smoking, age, degree of goiter, and thyroid hormone receptor antibodies.
Men who have been diagnosed with hyperthyroidism should be under the guidance of a doctor to standardize their treatment, and improving treatment compliance can improve the cure rate of hyperthyroidism to a certain extent.