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Sorry for the acronym; should have remembered you said you were new to the board. TED is thyroid eye disease. This was my second mild bout with it. My left eye sticks out more than the right but it isn’t noticeable or maybe it got a little better now that the swelling has gone. I had swollen eyelids, eye pain, and difficulty looking upward and to the left. That lasted for a couple of weeks but has gotten better as have my episodes of heart palpitations and fast heart rate.
I am not doing any better with sleeping at night but it seems like some symptoms just take a little longer to go away than others.

If you have any eye symptoms you may want to discuss them in particular as regards the RAI. I believe that there is some evidence that RAI worsens the eye symptoms unless you take a course of something like prednisone.

Glad that you are starting to feel better.