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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...

I talk a lot about being diagnosed with Graves' disease and thyroid eye disease (TED), and how it really messed with my mental health and self confidence. It did for...

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...

“Well things are looking really great!” my thyroid eye disease (TED) specialist told me during my most recent appointment. It had been about 10 months since my final surgery for...

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...

Thyroid eye disease (TED) is a rare autoimmune disease that damages tissues around the eyes. An autoimmune disease is a disease that is caused by the body mistakenly attacking itself...

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...