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Overactive Thyroid Disease and Receiving Social Security Disability

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
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Your thyroid gland is located at the base of your neck, right below your Adam’s apple. It is a small, butterfly-shaped gland that produces hormones that have a huge impact on your health. These hormones affect every facet of your metabolism. They affect things that go all the way from how fast your heart is beating to how rapidly you burn calories.

Your system works right when your thyroid releases the right amounts of these hormones. When your thyroid makes too much of the hormone thyroxine, your body’s metabolism can be accelerated substantially. This can result in irritability or nervousness, a rapid or irregular heartbeat, sweating or sudden weight loss. When this takes place, the condition is referred to as overactive thyroid disease.

Hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid) is more common than overactive thyroid disease. Overactive thyroid disease can begin at any age, but it rarely affects children. Approximately 500,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with overactive thyroid disease each year. About one or two in every 100 Americans will be affected by this disease.

Girls or women are the ones who are affected most often by overactive thyroid disease. In fact, up to 10 times more women than men are affected by this disease. Overactive thyroid disease occurs most often in people who are younger than age 40.

Graves’ disease is the primary cause of overactive thyroid disease. Another cause of this disease is when one or more nodules or lumps in your thyroid grow and increase their activity so that too much thyroid hormone is produced. This is known as toxic nodular or multinodular goiter.

Overactive thyroid disease can also result from a viral infection or a problem with your immune system that causes your thyroid gland to leak hormone.

There are several signs and symptoms that may be an indication of overactive thyroid disease. These include:

  • Difficulty breathing
  • Your heart beating too fast
  • Having more bowel movements than usual
  • Being sweaty
  • Having itchy, red, warm skin
  • Feeling weak, nervous, moody or tired
  • Having fine, soft hair that falls out
  • Your hands shaking
  • Losing weight even though you eat as much or more than usual.
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Graves’ Disease and Receiving Social Security Disability

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Have you ever heard of Graves’ disease? It is the most common form of hyperthyroidism.  In fact, Graves’ disease is responsible for 50 to 60% of the 500,000 people a year who are diagnosed with hyperthyroidism in the United States.

Graves’ disease can occur at any age to either men or women. However, it is far more common with women than men, usually beginning after the age of 20.

Graves’ disease is a type of autoimmune disease that causes your thyroid gland to produce too much of the hormone thyroxine. An autoimmune disease is one in which your body’s immune system mistakenly attacks your own body. In the case of Graves’ disease, your immune system produces antibodies that stimulate your thyroid to produce too much thyroxine.

There are many ways in which Graves’ disease may affect you. Sometimes you can have this disorder without any signs or symptoms. These effects can occur slowly or come on suddenly. They are sometimes confused with other medical conditions. Some of the most common effects of Graves’ disease are:

  • Unintended weight loss
  • Frequent bowel movements
  • Trouble getting pregnant
  • Lighter menstrual flow
  • Muscular weakness
  • Hand tremors
  • Fatigue and weakness
  • Trouble sleeping
  • Irritability
  • Sensitivity to heat
  • Rapid heartbeat
  • Changes in how your eyes look or your vision.

Graves’ disease is the only type of hyperthyroidism that is associated with bulging of your eyes and the tissue around your eyes swelling. In rare cases, you may develop a reddish lumpy thickening of the skin in front of your shins called pretibial myxedema. This condition is usually painless.

Graves’ disease and/or complications resulting from it may be why you or your loved one is not able to work. It may be the cause of your disability.

If this is the case, you or your loved one may need help. You may need financial assistance.

Have you or your loved one thought about applying for Social Security disability benefits or disability benefits from the Social Security Administration because of the disability caused by Graves’ disease? Have you or your loved one already done this and been denied by the Social Security Administration?

You may be wondering what to do next? What options do you have? Do you have any recourse?

One step that you or your loved one can take is to appeal the denial by the Social Security Administration. If you decide to do this, here is something that you need to keep in mind.

You or your loved one is going to need the help and assistance of a diligent disability lawyer like the one you will find at socialsecurityhome.com in what can be a long and arduous process. The reason this is true is because people who are represented by a dependable disability attorney are approved more often than those people who are without a lawyer.

Do not hesitate. Contact the accomplished disability attorney at socialsecurityhome.com, today.

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