What is Graves disease

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Graves Disease is an autoimmune disease. This causes your own immune system to think that the thyroid is a foreigner and it attacks the thyroid gland to produce too much thyroid hormone. This causes to the pituitary gland to stop producing thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) and the thyroid to overproduce thyroid horomones, which are triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4).

Posted Dec 19, 2019 by Emma 3770

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1/18/16, 1:58 PM by Kris

WAS FINE & THEN I WASN'T

I had my yearly physical in Dec '13 and everything was fine. All of a sudden in Feb '14 my legs were swollen and I couldn't walk across the room without panting. Went to the doctor in March and they discovered I was in AFib and needed a heart val...

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11/18/15, 4:34 PM by Nancy

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I would say that my earliest symptom started to show in 2012 at the age of 13. My first diagnosis I was given was ADHD, as I was starting to have concentration problems in school. As time progressed, my symptoms became more apparent as I started high...

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12/19/19, 11:12 AM by Emma

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I was diagnosed with Graves Disease in October 2015 after being ill since Jan 2015. It was a terrifying year as I didn't know what was wrong only that something was. I had to change doctors in the end due to not being listened to & thankfully the 2nd...

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5/17/16, 7:42 PM by Amy

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diagnosed last 2012, but i had the feeling and symptoms long time ago, i just dont give attention on it,.

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1/11/17, 8:02 PM by bhette

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