Even though medical doctors and scientist consider this disease incurable, my personal experience proves that Graves’ Disease can be cured by treating the cause of this disease.

My personal research and experience shows certain life situations and conditions can trigger the onset of this disease. In general this is stress, improper diet, major stress situations or a combination of these factors. In most of the cases your eyes will recover, once your tests become normal and your symptoms are under control. However there are certain methods like eye exercises, cold compress, flax seed oil, lubricating drops etc that can improve your condition and relief your pain.

In general yes- even though it may be more difficult to get pregnant when diagnosed with Graves’ Disease, since your hormones are not in the normal range. However it can also help your recovery from Graves’ Disease. Many women had successful pregnancies, but you should work together with your endocrinologist regarding proper medication.

There are some methods like meditation, yoga, Reiki that can tremendously help your condition. Even though people think that they are time consuming and will affect your disease very slowly, actually it is not true. If you do meditation everyday you’ll start feeling much better in a week. Other alternative methods to affect your symptoms are different herbal teas, cold compresses, and proper diet that will contribute for your healing. This is what I call changing lifestyle.

Also known as Proptosis or Exophthalmos, Graves Disease is caused by over active thyroid glands, also known as hyperthyroidism. The over active thyroid glands cause the muscles and tissues around the eye to become inflamed and protrude from the eye sockets. Graves Disease can damage eyesight, but is treatable.

A. Yes, this disease is fully curable if the treatment is taken on a regular and continuous basis for adequate duration.

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In addition to the classic symptoms associated with hyperthyroidism, inadequately treated maternal hyperthyroidism can result in early labor and a serious complication known as pre-eclampsia. Graves’ disease often improves during the third trimester of pregnancy and may worsen during the post partum period.

Uncontrolled maternal hyperthyroidism: Uncontrolled maternal hyperthyroidism has been associated with fetal tachycardia (fast heart rate), small for gestational age babies, prematurity, stillbirths and possibly congenital malformations. This is another reason why it is important to treat hyperthyroidism in the mother.

Graves’ disease typically worsens in the postpartum period, usually in the first 3 months after delivery. Higher doses of antithyroid medications are frequently required during this time. As usual, close monitoring of thyroid function tests is necessary. Yes. PTU is the drug of choice because it is highly protein bound. Consequently, lower amounts of PTU cross into breast milk compared to Tapazole.

Mild hyperthyroidism often is monitored closely without therapy as long as both the mother and the baby are doing well. When therapy is necessary, anti-thyroid medications are the treatment of choice (see above). The goal of therapy is to keep the mother’s free T4 and free T3 levels in the high-normal range on the lowest dose of antithyroid medication. Therapy should be closely monitored during pregnancy by following thyroid function tests monthly.

The appearance may range from a thickened, velvety brown streaking to a leathery lesion, most often on the neck or in skin folds under the arm or breasts, around the belt line or in the groin, but it may develop elsewhere. Since stress is high on the list of headache causes and migraine triggers, stress management techniques are high on the list of headache prevention strategies. These include massage, meditation, biofeedback, and having a positive attitude.

Meniere’s disease is a disorder that produces a group of symptoms: sudden attacks of whirling dizziness, tinnitus or head noise, a feeling of pressure or fullness in the ear, and a fluctuating hearing loss. While the underlying cause is not known, it is believed to result from a fluctuation in the pressure of fluid that fills the inner ear. An attack may last from a few hours to several days.

Even if you have Graves' disease, it can take weeks, or even months, before you suspect you are sick because the symptoms build very gradually. You may think you are just experiencing stress, or feeling extra anxious. Or the disease may actually make you happy in the short term, as one of the side effects of speeding up the thyroid can be weight loss. However, in the longer term, less desirable symptoms, such as muscle weakness, insomnia and trembling can also result.

Where hyperthyroidism eye complications occur, see an eye doctor in addition to your regular physician. Smoking tends to worsen the eye problems associated with Graves' disease - yet another reason to quit. Now that you know something about hyperthyroidism, the dangers, the causes, and it's most common forms, in the next part of the series, we'll look at how hyperthyroidism is diagnosed.

The first course of action - when the disease is mild, or occurs in children or young adults, or needs to be promptly controlled (as with elderly patients whose heart disease puts them at risk from the increased heart rate associated with Grave's Disease) - is a course of antithyroid drugs, such as propylthiouracil (PTU) and methimazole (Tapazole ).

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