Whats graves disease?

can it be cured
how does affect you and normal life

Grave's disease is an autoimmune disease. That means that your own body is attacking itself. In the case of Grave's disease, your body makes antibodies that attack the thyroid and stimulate it to produce way too much thyroid hormone, resulting in hyperthyroidism. There are other symptoms of Grave's disease, such as thyroid eye disease, but hyperthyroidism is the main symptom.

You will have to take medication, and have frequent blood tests, for the rest of your life. It's no big deal once it's under control, if you get the blood tests, and take the medication, and KEEP it under control. Getting it under control can be tough. It will be extremely difficult to find a decent doctor to treat it, and it takes months to get it under control, and that's only if you can get blood tests frequently enough, and you don't let the doctor give you hypothyroidism. But once it's under control, you'll be ok.

There is no cure for Grave's disease.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/graves-...

here is the website to the graves disease page on the mayo clinic website

Graves disease is a thyroid disorder characterized by goiter, exophthalmos, "orange-peel" skin, and hyperthyroidism. It is caused by an antibody-mediated auto-immune reaction, but the trigger for this reaction is still unknown. It is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism in the world, and the most common cause of general thyroid enlargement in developed countries.

Treatment
Treatment of Graves' disease includes antithyroid drugs which reduce the production of thyroid hormone, radioiodine (radioactive iodine I131), and thyroidectomy (surgical excision of the gland). As operating on a frankly hyperthyroid patient is dangerous, prior to thyroidectomy preoperative treatment with antithyroid drugs is given to render the patient "euthyroid" (i.e. normothyroid).

Treatment with antithyroid medications must be given for six months to two years, in order to be effective. Even then, upon cessation of the drugs, the hyperthyroid state may recur. Side effects of the antithyroid medications include a potentially fatal reduction in the level of white blood cells. The development and widespread adoption of radioiodine treatment has led to a progressive reduction in the use of surgical thyroidectomy for this problem. In general, RAI therapy is effective, less expensive, and avoids the small but definite risks of surgery.

Therapy with radioiodine is the most common treatment in the United States, whilst antithyroid drugs and/or thyroidectomy is used more often in Europe, Japan, and most of the rest of the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graves-Base...

thyroid issues, hyper thyroid i do believe. google it. see your dr if you have it or think you do, he'll put you on the medication that is right for you, watch your diet!