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in reply to: Newly diagnosed and treatment options #1185295

Kimberly wrote:

Concur 100% with Liz1967 that diet will NOT cure your Graves’ – whatever website is claiming this is true is putting patients at extreme risk.

The first year after I was diagnosed, I went on an extremely restrictive diet (in addition to taking methimazole and having regular visits with my endocrinologist) – no gluten, soy, dairy, eggs, etc.. Quite frankly, the only thing the diet changes did for me was cause extreme stress! Other patients report that they do feel better with diet changes in conjunction with conventional medical treatment.

Eye problems can occur before thyroid dysfunction, after treatment, or not at all. If you have no symptoms, great, but this is just something to be aware of. For some patients, their first eye symptoms (swelling, grittiness, dryness) appear months or years later – and they end up getting misdiagnosed as having allergies!

Hi! This is my first time posting. In fact it’s my first time on this site. I’m wondering, Is it possible to have eye problems related to graves before the appearance of hyperthyroidism? Or even only have eye problems without symptoms of hyperthyroidism appearing at all? I ask bc I’m beginning the process of testing for graves’ but seem to only have manifested symptoms related to graves’ ophthalmology. I understand RAI can agrivate graves eye what are some of the suggested treatments for the eye itself? Is there a way to mitigate or reverse the bulging of the eye?

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