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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

  • Graves antibodies, TED and levothyroxine

    March 20, 2019, 3:02 p.m.

    Hello and welcome - hopefully, those who have had RAI and also those who have been through eye surgery can...

  • Graves antibodies, TED and levothyroxine

    March 19, 2019, 10:11 a.m.

    Hello. I’m new to this group and based in the UK. I have read with interest posts on TED and surgery - I am...

  • Going off methimazole expectations

    March 19, 2019, 9:30 a.m.

    Hello - Both are antibody tests, but TSI measures stimulating antibodies only, while TRAb picks up all...

  • Going off methimazole expectations

    March 18, 2019, 10:32 a.m.

    Kimberly - could you explain more about the TSI and TRAb? I am still struggling with feeling...

  • Links between thyroid, cholesterol, diabetes

    March 8, 2019, 3:35 a.m.

    They still say further research is needed in that article. I hope someone's on it. haha

  • Feels like PMS all the time

    March 1, 2019, 2:39 p.m.

    Hi. I'm a blast from the past, and it's so good to see Kimberly still here and running this place. Thank you...

  • Nails

    March 1, 2019, 11:55 a.m.

    I did find this : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29780134 and this:...

  • Nails

    March 1, 2019, 11:25 a.m.

    i have had the same thing on my left big toenail since Graves began, even when on methimazole for the first 6...

  • Nails

    March 1, 2019, 8:17 a.m.

    Hello and welcome - hopefully, others here can chime in with their experiences. I do know that being hyper or...

  • Orbital Decompression

    March 1, 2019, 4:15 a.m.

    It is not as bad as you are anticipating. You might have two uncomfortable postop days. If you do not do it...

  • Nails

    March 1, 2019, 3:51 a.m.

    Has anyone had any trouble with the finger nails and toe nails. I had my thyroid removed in 2007 after a...

  • Feels like PMS all the time

    Feb. 28, 2019, 7:33 p.m.

    I lost up to 20 pounds over several years before a doctor finally suspected thyroid problems and began the...

  • Orbital Decompression

    Feb. 28, 2019, 4:05 p.m.

    Hello - I've not had an OD, but we've heard many success stories from patients who have. Having an...

  • Orbital Decompression

    Feb. 28, 2019, 10:21 a.m.

    Hi all - I am getting ready to schedule the orbital decompression and I am scared to death - almost scared...

  • Feels like PMS all the time

    Feb. 25, 2019, 8:41 a.m.

    Hello - Like Liz1967, I've not heard of this as a side effect of levothyroxine. Have you started or stopped...

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