Hi everyone. I am new to this forum. I have graves eye disease and have to have surgery. I am a bit scared about this and have heard all of the horror stories. Has anyone had eye muscle surgery and did it help

Stop ingesting gluten and sugar. It cured my Graves disease. It de-compressed my eye muscles, eliminated my blurred vision, eliminated my anxiety attacks, and eliminated my heart arrhythmia.
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http://thyroid.about.com/cs/latestresearch/a/celiac.htm

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The Celiac/Autoimmune Thyroid Connection
Research links Celiac Sprue Gluten-Intolerance to autoimmune thyroid disease

According to research reported on in the medical journal Digestive Diseases and Sciences, a significant number of patients with autoimmune thyroid disease also have celiac disease. Celiac disease is a disorder that causes the intestines to react abnormally to gluten, a protein found in wheat, rye, barley, oats, spelt, kamut, and other related grains.......

.......The researchers studied 172 patients with autoimmune thyroid disease, and two control groups, and found that the 3.4% of patients with autoimmune thyroiditis had celiac disease, and the prevalence was only 0.6% and 0.25% among the control groups. The study also found that undiagnosed celiac disease may actually be part of the process that triggers an underlying autoimmune disease. In their findings they wrote: "We believe that undiagnosed celiac disease can cause other disorders by switching on some as yet unknown immunological mechanism. Untreated celiac patients produce organ-specific autoantibodies."

Of perhaps greatest importance to thyroid patients, the researchers found that the various antibodies that indicate celiac disease - organ-specific autoantibodies (i.e., thyroid antibodies) -- will disappear after 3 to 6 months of a gluten-free diet......
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Leave it to cloistered professionals to try and convince us that we need them. The most advanced screening techniques are capable of identifying far less than half of all gluten intolerance cases. Only a patient's own body possesses enough technical sophistication to positively identify gluten intolerance.

To be accepted by the medical establishment such studies may only cite subjects as celiac sufferers who have been diagnosed using intestinal biopsy. People can suffer from gluten intolerance for decades before suffering that level of damage. So the portion of gluten disease sufferers in this study and all such studies is WAY under-represented.

Stop ingesting anything which tastes sweet .......sugar, fruit, artificial sweetener. Stop ingesting wheat, rye, barley and oats ......all cereal grains.

Keep it up for a month and see if your symptoms improve. Then reintroduce these things and see if they get worse. There's no risk.

If the test is positive for a gluten-and-sugar reaction, I think you'll know what to do. I feel confident, and I think you should too.
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