I HAVE GRAVES DISEASE...IT DOESNT HAVE ME.

[Smilerdeb]

I would like to take this opportunity of telling EVERYONE with Graves Disease about a website and Business that one of our Members started up recently.
The website and the Member I hold very close to my heart as no matter through thick and thin, through he// and pain......This woman has been my Guardian Angel in times of need and support.
This website is NOT a get well quick website but a Members story from her point of view and also her battle with TED (thyroid eye disease).
This Memeber also makes her own Logo's for T-shirts and baseball Caps and i thought that as january is Thyroid Awareness Month that I should give everyone the link to this site so you can read the he// this woman has gone through for many years and has now finally found peace in her heart.
This member is:

MARPO1

And tou you Elaine (Marpo1) I thank you from the very deepest part of my heart for standing beside me, standing tall with me even though we have never met and yet we are like sisters.
God Bless You Elaine......I Love You Heaps. xxx

Here is the link to Marpo1's story of her battle with Graves, Hyperthyroidism, & TED.
http://lakewoodgraves.synthasite.com/my-story.php

It is an inspiration to all.
Marpo is not a Doctor or an Endocrinologist......Marpo is a human being who on her journey through Graves found there is light at the end of the tunnel.
Its very inspiring to read her story.

[Smilerdeb]

The Graves Antibodies are always there and you have them for life.
They just dont have a thyroid to attack anymore and most times, lay dormant in your system.
I had mine checked before and after RAI.
They were 420% before RAI and 34 after RAI (the ref range being under <60).
The tests were done 3 months after RAI.
And I had RAI 7 in June 2008.
Hope that helps.

[Totie]

I was diagnosed with graves/hyperthyroidism back in 1993, had a TT.

Now I am considered clinically hypo. Does it mean that I no longer have graves in my body?

[Smilerdeb]

Aww Shucks,....now your making me sook (cry).
I think we all need our different stories to be told as we are all different.
Anyone who says they havent been to he// and back with the thyroid issues are not being true to themselves.
I try and tell it like it is....I dont fabricate anything, I dont lie about my own personal he// I went through.
But I do hope that other Members readings posts can relate in some form of another and feel they are not alone.
BUT there is light at the end of the tunnel...believe me.


Deb (from down under lol)

[stella5349]

Hopefully I will get a post up for reference today about thyroid awareness month today.

There are many ways to get the work out there on how we can get awareness out there about this diease. Chitchatnine and I were working on that last night.

I have to work today - so hopefully I will be able to sneak some time in to get this posted. If not CC9 - and Laura1967 can also get the ball rolling today too.

That Deb - for posting this information - I read her story and so much of it sounded so familiar to me.

Your tops GF (down under) LOL

[Marpo1]

I don't know what to say...this touched my heart.  I am just another person with GD like the rest of you.  But if I can help just ONE person,  if I can make One more person know of our plight.  Then I have done my job.

God bless you Ded...God bless all of you

[Smilerdeb]

http://lakewoodgraves.synthasite.com/my-story.php