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If you’ve been diagnosed with a thyroid disease, such as Graves’, your doctor may have told you about the complications that can arise in the future. One of them is thyroid eye disease, commonly referred to as Graves’ ophthalmopathy.
Thyroid eye disease occurs in about 1 in every 6,250 women and 1 in 34,500 men, according to the National Organization for Rare Disorders. In thyroid eye disease, a person’s immune system attacks the muscles, fat, and other tissues around and behind the eye, resulting in inflammation, scarring, swelling, and more.
This inflammation and swelling causes symptoms such as bulging eyes, retracted eyelids, and chronic dry eye, says Ilya Leyngold, MD, an ocular plastic surgeon at Duke Eye Center in Durham, North Carolina.