Does Grave's disease weaken the immune system?

Question

Can Grave's disease weaken the immune system and can it make you feel fatigued? Does the radioactive iodine treatment relieve these symptoms?

Answer 1

Grave's is an autoimmune disease.

Autoimmune disorders are those disease states in which your own antibodies attack some gland or tissue in your body.

Grave's disease results from immune system destruction or stimulation of thyroid tissue. Symptoms of thyroid disfunction are nonspecific and can develop slowly or suddenly; these include fatigue, nervousness, cold or heat intolerance, weakness, changes in hair texture or amount, and weight gain or loss.

The onset of autoimmune disorders occurs most often in middle-aged women - the time of life when estrogen dominance becomes common.

Bottom Line: If you're suffering from an autoimmune disease, you don't have to wait for all the academic research answers to come in. Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) at physiological doses is relatively safe, and, if nothing else has worked for you, it's an option you and your physician should consider exploring.

Answer 2

Graves does not cause immune system to weaken. It CAN make you feel fatigued, if it has been going strong for a while (essentially it robs your body of all the energy and then starts eating muscle and not sending enough oxygen to the brain). Radioactive iodine MAY relieve all the systems. It's kind of a crap shoot there -- you want to kill enough so that all the thyroid left over produces exactly the right amount of thyroid hormone for your body. Best case scenario, it does. If not, if the radio takes too much, you become hypo and have to have thyroid replacement hormone for the rest of your life. If the radio does not kill enough, you will still be hyper, albeith tempered substantially.

Answer 3

It never weakens ur immunity. Radioactive iodine does reduces the symptoms of disease.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Yes, a thyroid disease