[Anonymous March 3, 1997 at 7:33 pm Post count: 93172]

#1164209

MARY, I DON’T KNOW IF SMOKING CONTRIBUTES TO GD, GOSH IT SURE ISN’T
EASY TO QUIT SMOKING WHEN YOU HAVE ALL THESE WEIRD SYMPTONS, huh?
I also smoke and have thought ABOUT
quitting, but not now. however I
know I should. My eyes are buldged and I SELL SKIN AND MAKEUP PRODUCTS.
nOT SUCH A PRETTY SIGHT, BUT THANK GOD I CAN SEE. iS ANYONE OUT THERE
IRRITABLE FROM THIS DISEASE OR IS IT JUST ME? KIT

[Anonymous March 3, 1997 at 7:37 pm Post count: 93172]

#1164210

good for you steve! wish i could or would quit.

kit

[Anonymous March 3, 1997 at 9:16 pm Post count: 93172]

#1164211

Smoking makes any eye problems worse. You are really a hero for quitting!
Stay with it. I hear it’s tough, but look what you’ve already done!

[Anonymous March 3, 1997 at 9:21 pm Post count: 93172]

#1164212

I also smoke and recently quit for 3 weeks with the help of the on-line site quitnet. It’s really a great support BB. I became very depressed when I was off the cigarettes and went back. Now I could really kick myself. I see my endo this week and I’m going to ask him for some help. I really hope everyone here can quit someday. I know it makes the eyes dry out faster and become red. It’s just no good for us with Graves’. Just search http://www.quitnet.com. Hope it helps.

Diana

[Anonymous March 4, 1997 at 12:05 am Post count: 93172]

#1056730

Way to go, Steve!

Live long and prosper!

[Anonymous March 4, 1997 at 9:45 am Post count: 93172]

#1164213

Steve,

Smoking is considered taboo and a contributor to every disease known to
man. No matter what illness you look up, it will say you need to
quit smoking.

I’m curious about one thing. How many Graves’ people smoked when diagnosed?
How many continue to smoke? If you quit, did it improve your levels?

I’ve also recently quit, yesterday in fact. Good luck in staying quit
Steve.

Linda

[Anonymous March 4, 1997 at 10:17 am Post count: 93172]

#1164214

I’ve read that thyroid function is stimulated by smoking, and that sometimes people discover hypothyroidism when they quit. Statistics show eye involvement with GD is more common and more severe in smokers. I quit several years before my GD diagnosis, and before my ophthalmopathy began. Maybe my eye problems would be more severe if I still smoked?

Dianne N

[Anonymous March 4, 1997 at 11:34 am Post count: 93172]

#1164215

LINDA ,

thats great that you quit ,way to go. I dont have the eye disease, i quit
because my health is bad, and i want to get well, and on with my life, i also quit
booze, i was a social drinker its been 10 months now, its hard to quit things
I also had to quit coffee, tea, pop, and junk food. How come i haven’t lost it yet
i wish i new.

way to go,

steve

[Anonymous March 5, 1997 at 3:19 pm Post count: 93172]

#1164216

Smoking and GD. You bet there is a cooralation between the two. Smoking
does not give you GD but is DOES aggrevate the eye disease. My eye doc (Number
one in the country per the who’s who of docs) said there is a greater
percentage of smokers who have eye problems. The local hospital paid to
bring him up here for a CME for all the doc’s in the area and this is a
topic he hit on very hard. I too am an exsmoker and glad I quit. I do
wonder how much damage I did while smoking but who knows. Hope this helped.

Achgook

[Anonymous March 5, 1997 at 8:22 pm Post count: 93172]

#1164217

Yes, my eye doctor said smoking causes the eye symptoms to be more severe.He said there was a study done on it, but I don’t remember by whom. He said that his smoking patients have a much harder time than the notsmoking. I hadn’t smoked for 2 years when he told me all this, so I didn’t see it as his way of talking me ou of smoking-that wasn’t the point of our conversation. Susan

[Anonymous March 5, 1997 at 10:22 pm Post count: 93172]

#1164218

I am also an ex-smoker. I quit smoking Sept. 1, 1995. One
month later, I began having trouble with my left eye. For 4
months, my G.P. treated me for pink-eye, then sent me to an
opthamologist. He correctly diagnosed the problem, and suspected
my G.D. In Feb. of 1996, I was formerly diagnosed with G.D. I
wondered if the “stress” of quitting smoking could have been the
trigger for my G.D. My endo says no, that as severe as I had it,
the disease had probably been present and active for over a year.
I still sometimes wonder….

[Anonymous May 15, 1997 at 8:16 pm Post count: 93172]

#1164219

Can you get on the patch and still be on inderal does anyone know?

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