Kelly Severseike

Waking up with double vision on the first Wednesday of October 5 years ago was the first time I was suddenly made aware something had changed with my eyes. When...

When I had thyroid eye disease (TED), the cold weather was not my friend. I found I made very little progress with my eyes during the months when the cold...

The holidays can be stressful in general. A lot of family, a lot of togetherness. Catching up with how the year has gone. Having thyroid eye disease (TED) can add...

For 3 years straight, my body and my emotions were constantly on high alert, waiting for when my eyes would become irritated from thyroid eye disease (TED). I was left...

My eyes will not be the same. That is a reality I have no choice but to accept. My eyes will not look the same, feel the same, be the...

Sitting in the waiting room of my thyroid eye disease (TED) doctor, I am surrounded by his other patients. While he was referred to me by my thyroid doctor to...

Double vision from thyroid eye disease (TED) would frequently ruin my day. I hated it, especially when it happened in the early evening, which it often did. I am a...

Thyroid eye disease (TED) forced me to look at my reality through a new lens. I did not really think about my eyes much before symptoms from this disease came...

I was diagnosed with thyroid eye disease (TED) in the fall of 2018, 2 months before I was supposed to graduate college. Any dreams or ambitions I had after I...

For years, I would look at photos and my focus would go straight to my eyes. How big they were. How bizarre they appeared. How different they looked. How they...

I recently had a dream I had double vision. It was the strangest dream ever. Everything I was looking at in this dream was doubled. I woke up, trying to...

Recently, I was at the store when I came across this magazine all about thyroid health. I was waiting in line and had some time, so I flipped through it...

For a few years, while I had thyroid eye disease (TED), my eyes were so sensitive to light. To the point where going outside was impossible. I would step outside...

I remember the exact moment I knew I needed to buy some eye cream. I was at the museum with my dad 5 months after I was diagnosed with thyroid...

I had never heard of thyroid eye disease (TED) when I was diagnosed with it in the fall of 2018. I was officially diagnosed with Hashimoto’s in January of that...

Recently, my sister got married. I was her maid of honor. Being her maid of honor reminded me just how far I have come in my thyroid eye disease (TED)...

I have not worn makeup consistently in over 5 years. I was not that much of a makeup girl to begin with. So in the transition from no-thyroid eye disease...

Early on in my thyroid eye disease (TED) diagnosis, I got into using an icepack when my eyes were swollen or felt very uncomfortable. I bought an ice pack off...

Recently, my sister had an eye infection. Her eyes were irritated in a way she had not experienced before. She felt overwhelmed and annoyed by how her eyes were taking...

When I was diagnosed with thyroid eye disease (TED), everything felt different. I had an answer, a name for what I was experiencing, but I did not quite understand the...