The most common symptoms of thyroid eye disease are fairly mild soreness in the eyes, and a gritty feeling in the eyes. It is often also noticeable that your eyes may have a heightened sensitivity to light, and that particularly around your eyes and in the upper eyelid you may experience puffiness which may be worse in the mornings.

Interesting when considering thyroid eye disease symptoms it is also worth pointing out that it is not unusual for someone to experience these symptoms worse in one eye then the other.

The first thing to do if you experience any eye problems or thyroid eye disease symptoms is that you should visit your Doctor to get checked out. It is also a good idea to give up smoking, as smoking seems to dramatically increase your chances of suffering from the condition, and also possibly to take some herbal supplements that can help your thyroid gland to recover and rebalance itself.

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It is heartening to realise though that whilst thyroid eye disease symptoms can be uncomfortable, that for most people they won’t experience dramatic swelling around the eyes, or double vision, which does affect a small proportion of those with the disease.  But instead will most likely simply have puffiness and bloating around the eyes, and irritation of the eyes.

Neither of these are very comfortable, or nice to live with, but by the same token neither are life threatening, and with treatment they will most likely go away. This is not however an overnight event, as it may well take anywhere from a few months to two years for the condition to settle down on its own; and one in ten patients will have the unfortunate prospect of the condition getting worse rather than better.

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Thyroid eye disease (thyroid orbitopathy) affects the soft tissues surrounding the eye, such as muscles and fat.  When you suffer from the condition you will typically experience inflammation around the eye, and this has the effect of making your eyes to be more noticeable and pushed out, and a common symptom is that you will look as though you are staring.

It can also cause a stiffness in the eye muscles which move the eye, and this in turn can then cause you to suffer from a squint and also to possibly develop double vision. There is also the danger with thyroid eye disease that as the eyeball swells out, that it will cause a pressing on the optic nerve that may disrupt your vision. So if you drive it is essential that you alert the relevant driving authorities if you have double vision or any of these other symptoms, as it is illegal to drive when impaired in this way.

Additionally, you may notice that you get dry eyes, which is perhaps the most common symptom with thyroid eye disease, and that eyelid retraction becomes more painful.

Other common names for thyroid eye disease are Graves Eye Disease and Dysthyroid Eye Disease.

The causes of thyroid eye disease are centred around the thyroid gland being overactive, and typically 40% of cases will be when the thyroid is actually being overactive, and 60% in people who may not be currently suffering from an overactive thyroid, but who have had inclinations in that way, or who have been treated for an overactive thyroid in the past. So it seems clear that the condition is linked to your thyroid not functioning at an optimal level.

Simply because you have an overactive thyroid does not mean you will automatically develop thyroid eye disease, and in fact, even amongst  people with an overactive thyroid it is relatively rare, occurring in perhaps only about 2% of cases. Smokers with an overactive thyroid are however at a dramatically higher risk of developing the condition, with 8 times the normal risk.

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Thyroid Eye Disease (TED) is an extremely unpleasant condition and is also known as thyroid orbitopathy, Graves’ ophthalmopathy and which also known as Graves Disease (though technically Graves Disease is really a separate condition which causes thyroid eye disease, and about 10% of those who have Graves Disease do not suffer from Thyroid Eye Disease).

The problems of Thyroid Eye Disease mostly come about from an over active thyroid gland, and hence hyperthyroidism is directly implicated in most cases of the condition.

It causes reddening, a bulging appearance of the eyes, the feeling that their is grit in the eyes (even though there is not) and other symptoms.

In this website I explore the condition.