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I was diagnosed with Graves' disease years ago, and then also diagnosed with thyroid eye disease (TED). Both of these diagnoses happened in my 20s. I am now 32 and...

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...

Sometimes I ask myself, "Why am I doing this? Why did I commit to being a patient advocate for a whole community of people struggling with thyroid eye disease?" We...

I recently took a trip to visit my parents. I had to navigate airport crowds, TSA, gates, luggage, and seat location on the departures side. On the arrivals side, 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...

Throughout my journey with thyroid eye disease (TED), makeup has been a very important tool for me. Like many people with TED, I could not recognize myself in the mirror...

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...

Life has been pretty busy lately. I currently work 2 jobs and just recently reduced hours on my second job. I started thinking about how burnt out I felt, and...

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...

Recently we visited a beach community. It is the kind of place where people vacation year after year, bringing their families and their dogs. The community sits on a piece...

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...

All my life I have been a health-conscious person. As a teen perhaps somewhat overly critical, but as I matured I learned to be realistic. I monitored myself to eat...

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...

"Come inside, smoke from a huge fire in Canada is moving into NYC." What?? I was working from home and sitting outside on my terrace. I looked up at the...

It is likely that many of us have experienced a moment or 2 when someone says or does something about our health that takes us by surprise. When managing a...

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)...

Your journey with thyroid eye disease (TED) is not exactly the same as anyone else's. People with TED may experience the different phases of the condition differently when it comes...

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...

After 3 years of my thyroid eye disease (TED) being active, my eyes stabilized! I celebrated finally making it to the inactive phase of TED. My doctor and I promptly...