I've had symptoms of dry eyes, random itching, tiredness, and dry skin for no apparent reason since February. In April, my eyes started swelling up severely on the upper lids, and I had daily pain behind my eyes and headaches. After trips to multiple doctors, I was finally diagnosed with thyroid eye disease due to my hashimotos thyroiditis that I have known about and taken meds for about 12 years. My meds adjusted were adjusted about 2 1/2 weeks ago. Within a week symptoms less severe and within two weeks all symptoms gone except for flaky skin and severe eye swelling on the upper lid. I'm seeing an endocrinologist who is monitoring my medication and eye surgeon who specializes in thyroid eye disease. The eye specialist didn't tell me much more than my eye issue was related to the thyroid eye disease, and it might take a couple of years to resolve on my first visit about a month ago. He didn't mention any of the other more scary symptoms of bulging eyes, eye lid retraction or potential eye loss that I read on the internet. I'm getting into another eye specialist soon, but my question is what is the percentage of people who develop more serious symptoms of bulging eyes, etc? Does it always happen? Also I read that sometimes if due to a certain subtype related to hypothyroidism, the symptoms resolve when thyroid numbers are corrected. Is this accurate?