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10 Ways to Improve Your Thyroid Eye Disease (TED)

Thyroid Eye Disease is an inflammatory condition which affects the orbital contents including the extraocular muscles and orbital fat. It is almost always associated with Graves' disease (GD) but may rarely be seen in Hashimoto's thyroiditis, primary hypothyroidism, or thyroid cancer.  The ocular manifestations of Thyroid Eye Disease (TED) include soft tissue inflammation, eyelid retraction, proptosis, corneal exposure, and optic nerve compression.

The signs and symptoms of the thyroid eye disease are characteristic. These include lid retraction, lid lag, and a delay in the downward excursion of the upper eyelid in down gaze that is specific to TED.  

Thyroid Eye Disease affects approximately 1 million people in USA and Canada and 250,000 people in the UK. Although blindness is a dreaded complication, fortunately only a small minority of patients require surgery or other medical treatment to protect their vision. The majority of patients with Thyroid Eye Disease however appear to suffer silently trying to come to terms with the facial disfigurement that is caused by the disease. It is particularly unkind, distorting the most expressive, vivid and ageless feature of the face, the eyes. Many patients with Thyroid eye disease are unable to face the world, they don’t want to look at the mirror any more and avoid social contacts as much as they can. Relationships break down, jobs are lost, depression sets in and life changes for the worse. These patients are really desperate, they lost a hope that they will ever get better and the consequences in their everyday life are severe. READ MORE ABOUT NATURAL REMEDIES>>> 

About the author: Svetla Bankova is an author of "Life Manual for Graves' Disease and Hyperthyroidism"- a book, based not only  on her experience as a former Graves' Disease patient but also her research as a psychologist. This is  only book that explains step by step how and why Graves' Disease came to your life, the cause and specific steps for alternative treatment of Graves' disease. The book provides also specific steps how to treat Thyroid Eye Disease, numerous practical exercises, recipes for herbal compresses, how to use flax seed oil and many other supplements that will improve your eyes tremendously.

...She avoided an eye surgery and saw improvement in just 2 1/2 weeks! Hi Svetla, I just wanted to let you know that I have been taking the flax seed oil and using my eye drops for about 2 1/2 weeks now and I can already tell a difference (not necessarily appearance wise yet), but I do not have all of the pain in my eyes that I was having and I can tell by touch that my eyes are not protruding as much.   I am going to the eye doctor next week.  I am anxious to see how much my measurements have improved, because I know they have.  I just wanted to say thanks for your information, because I was not looking forward to that horrible sounding eye surgery. Thanks, Stacy P.

 I believe that once your symptoms are under control and your test are in normal range your eyes will start to improve. So besides treating the symptoms I would recommend treating the cause of Graves’ Disease as well.

Svetla Bankova

CTACC, MBA in Counseling Psychology,

former Graves' Disease patient

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