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Hallelujah. The medicine must be working because today I managed to put money into the parking meter before simply walking away -- like I did twice this past month to the tune of $50. Well -- er -- slight confession: I did walk away, but then somehow I remembered my mistake while only halfway down the block. The parking police have no mercy, this I know from experience.

So much has been slipping my mind these days. I really thought I was going nuts at 46 years old, and frankly, I'm being kind with the adjective.

The good news is that I have not crossed the threshold of insanity. The more distressing news is that I have Graves disease, an autoimmune disease where your thyroid…

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Articles of Interest

Graves’ Disease and the Manifestations of Thyrotoxicosis

Graves' disease includes thyrotoxicosis, goiter, exophthalmos, and pretibial myxedema when fully expressed, but can occur with one or more of these features.

Missy Elliott Got Her Graves On

Missy Elliott has been battling Graves disease, an autoimmune illness that affects the thyroid. Graves' disease is rarely life-threatening, it’s easily controlled, and treatment is almost always successful.

Patient Voices: Thyroid Disease

The thyroid is a tiny gland in the neck whose overproduction or underproduction of hormones can cause a host of problems — including Graves’ disease, hyperthyroidism and the little-known Hashimoto’s syndrome. Here, four men and women speak about thyroid disease and its impact on their lives.

Resources

5 Causes of Graves’ Disease and 5 Solutions for It

It is estimated that between 3 and 10 million people are diagnosed with hyperthyroidism or an overactive thyroid.1 The most common form of hyperthyroidism is the autoimmune condition known as Graves’ disease

Graves' Disease & Thyroid Foundation

Educate, encourage, and empower -- the Foundation works to provide support to individuals affected by Graves' disease, to increase public awareness of the warning signs and symptoms of Graves', to educate health care professionals about developments in the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid disease, and to fund vital research to find the causes and cure for this autoimmune disease.

Graves’ Disease Coffee Break

This website is for Graves' Disease patients, family and friends to unite in a Coffee Break for Graves' Disease.

Sammy's Hyperthyroid & Grave's Disease Blog

This blog is intended as a resource for those who have hyperthyroidism and/or Grave's Disease. I have both hyperthyroidism and Grave's and want to share my experiences.

Thyroid HUG

The goal of Thyroid HUG is to help help others understand the personal journey of Graves Disease and bring awareness to thyroid disease.

A lump in my throat

A blog about the physical and emotional presence of Graves' Disease

American Thyroid Association

Graves’ disease is an autoimmune disease that leads to a generalized overactivity of the entire thyroid gland (hyperthyroidism). It is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism in the United States. It is named after Robert Graves, an Irish physician, who described this form of hyperthyroidism about 150 years ago. It is 7-8 times more common in women than men.

Graves Disease Diary

A diary of hope for those with Graves Disease & Ophthamology.

Graves Eye Disease and Hyperthyroid

Living with symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of Graves Eye Disease (Thyroid Eye Disease) and Hyperthyroid--What to expect, questions to ask, and more.

Living with Graves' Disease

Graves' Disease and Thyroid resources and support for patients.

My Blog About Graves' Disease and Hyperthyroidism

The owner of the blog, Svetla Bankova, a psychologist by profession, was diagnosed with Graves’ Disease in 2003 and cured herself with alternative and holistic methods, now available to other sufferers through her website, books, articles and blog - ThyroidChange

Thyroid.org

The majority of symptoms of Graves’ disease are caused by the excessive production of thyroid hormones by the thyroid.

EndocrineWeb

Graves’ disease is named for the doctor who first described it in Ireland—Robert J. Graves. He noticed it in a patient in 1835. The disease is also referred to as Basedow’s disease—named after a German, Karl Adolph van Basedow, who described the disease in 1840. He didn’t know that Graves had described the same disease just a few years earlier.

MedicineNet

Symptoms of Graves' disease include goiter, problems conceiving a child, lighter menstrual flow and less frequent periods, weight loss, frequent bowel movements, heart palpitations, thinning of hair, brittle hair, hand tremors, problems sleeping, heat insensitivity, increased sweating, eye changes (exophthalmos), and reddening and thickening of the skin on the shins and top of the feet (pretibial myxedema).

MedlinePlus

Graves disease is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism. It is due to an abnormal immune system response that causes the thyroid gland to produce too much thyroid hormone. Graves disease is most common in women over age 20. But the disorder can occur at any age and can affect men as well.

StatPearls

Graves’ disease is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism accounting for 60% to 80% of hyperthyroid cases.

WomensHealth.gov

Both men and women can get Graves' disease. But it affects women 10 times more often than men. Graves' disease occurs in people of all ages, but most often starts in the 20s and 30s. People who get Graves' disease often have family members who have thyroid or other autoimmune diseases.