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The Graves' Disease and Thyroid Foundation depends on volunteers to to achieve our mission! Volunteers can:

  • Serve as facilitators on our forum, an online support network for patients, friends, and family members.
  • Become "advocates", providing one-on-one assistance in a particular area of expertise (i.e. Graves' and children, Graves' and men, thyroid disease and pregnancy, etc.)
  • Provide leadership for a local support group 
  • Organize a local fundraising event
  • Ensure that local doctors' offices are stocked with information about Graves' Disease and other thyroid-related disorders.

Are you interested in learning more?  Contact us at 877-643-3123 or at [email protected]

Recent News

Recent Forum Posts

  • Mood Swing

    May 17, 2019, 6:19 p.m.

    Hello - This video from Dr. Ira Lesser will hopefully shed some light behind the *why* of the mood issues....

  • Mood Swing

    May 15, 2019, 7:45 p.m.

    Hi all, I love being around people. I love to smile and being helpful as much as I could. However, often...

  • t3 and t4 in range, TSH low

    May 14, 2019, 4:32 p.m.

    I never had a normal TSH when I was on methimazole. When my T4 and T3 were in the normal range, it was always...

  • t3 and t4 in range, TSH low

    May 13, 2019, 12:03 p.m.

    There are lots of drugs beside anti-thyroid drugs that can cause hair loss. This article lists some of them,...

  • t3 and t4 in range, TSH low

    May 13, 2019, 8:41 a.m.

    Yes, I'm on methimazole. 5mg daily. I just hoped the hair loss would stop as my labs got more in range. The...

  • t3 and t4 in range, TSH low

    May 11, 2019, 6:06 a.m.

    Are you on methimazole? It is a drug and one of its side effects is hair loss, irregardless of thyroid...

  • t3 and t4 in range, TSH low

    May 10, 2019, 7:16 a.m.

    Hi all, Just wondered if anyone has had the same thing happen, t3 and t4 are both in range and have been...

  • Change in medication

    May 8, 2019, 9:34 a.m.

    Hello - I've not taken Cytomel (and am not a doc), but based on the prescribing info, it looks like the...

  • Change in medication

    May 7, 2019, 2:28 a.m.

    I am not a doctor, nor would I suggest ignoring your physicians advice, but in reviewing the warnings on...

  • Change in medication

    May 6, 2019, 5:21 p.m.

    So I have had Graves' disease since 2012 and it took about a year to find my sweet spot with a combination of...

  • Graves Disease and hair loss

    May 2, 2019, 6:26 p.m.

    Hello and welcome - We're fellow patients here, so can't give advice on medications. In general, the active...

  • Graves Disease and hair loss

    May 2, 2019, 11:14 a.m.

    Hi everyone, DX with Graves in November, on methimazole since December. all labs were within...

  • Thyroidoctomy after RAI ??

    April 30, 2019, 4:04 p.m.

    RAI can start the eye disease in some people. Yet sometimes the eye disease occurs after thyroidectomy, altho...

  • Thyroidoctomy after RAI ??

    April 30, 2019, 3:18 p.m.

    Thnx for ur reply So u think that thyroidoctomy for me now is useless ?? My thyroid now is dead and my...

  • Thyroidoctomy after RAI ??

    April 30, 2019, 8:30 a.m.

    You can have a thyroidectomy after RAI, and there is some suggestion of RAI after thyroidectomy. The object...

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