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How you look at your eyes is not how everyone else will look at your eyes. This is something I had to remind myself of when I was in the...

From an outside perspective, it can be difficult to understand just how much thyroid eye disease (TED) can impact someone on a daily basis and make normal activities much more...

Thyroid eye disease (TED) is a rare condition. This community is for people living with TED and caregivers or friends and family of people living with this condition. Our goal...

Is there a person in your life you lean on to help you navigate the ups and downs of thyroid eye disease? Do you rely heavily on one person or...

Editor's Note: This is part 2 of a series. Please read part 1 here. "Do you wear glasses?" my friend asked me. She was on the phone with her then-boyfriend...

Let’s face it, getting treatment for chronic/rare/complicated medical conditions like thyroid eye disease (TED) is incredibly expensive and a challenge for many individuals. From doctors to surgeries to travel to...

Hey there! We are back again with another talk about self-care! I have written other articles about how self-care is so important and what I do that I consider self-care...

Something that became apparent in my experience with thyroid eye disease (TED) is that other people’s journeys would not be the same as mine. In my head the road map...

After almost 3 years, my thyroid eye disease (TED) specialist has informed me that I am in an "inactive" phase of this disease. There has been so much uncertainty and...

When I was a junior in high school, I failed the school vision test. I could not read the letters below a certain line from far away the way I...

After writing several articles about how thyroid eye disease (TED) affected my life, I decided to delve deeper and talk about how TED affected my family. This meant asking questions...

It is funny. As you get older, you change. I am not the same person I was in my early 20’s now that I am in my 30's. I have...

I am a cat lover. How much of a cat lover? (Cut to a pile of funny cat socks and last year’s holiday cards featuring my cat in a sweater.)...

It was the morning after my cousin got married to his longtime partner. I was sitting in the hotel dining area, sipping on a Starbucks, trying to wake up, when...

Finally! I made it! After a six-year battle, I am now on the other side of thyroid eye disease (TED). I am looking forward to the New Year, 2023, with...

It was January of 2021, and I was feeling more alone than ever. We had been going through a pandemic and so everything was scary and there was still so...

Over the past 2 and a half years I have had 1 surgery to treat Graves’ disease and another 4 surgeries to address the damage caused by thyroid eye disease...

If someone were to ask me what my favorite part of my body was before I had thyroid eye disease (TED), I would answer with my eyes. Even now after...

I first learned about spoon theory a few years ago. It’s a metaphor related to chronic illness that discusses the amount of energy someone has available each day. Everyone starts...

There are so many things I do to keep myself on track when it comes to my Graves' disease and thyroid eye disease (TED). My doctor is great and I...