Know Your History

If you have Thyroid Eye Disease, then you have had at least 2 autoimmune diseases: Grave’s Disease and Thyroid Eye Disease. It might be helpful to see if you have had any other autoimmune diseases in your past, just so you know how compromised your autoimmune system really is.

Here is a lost of some of the most common Autoimmune diseases:

1.ACTIVE CHRONIC HEPATITIS
2.ACUTE NECTROTIZING HEMORRHAGIC LEUKOENCEPHALITIS
3.ALLERGIC RHINITIS
4.ALOPECIA AREATA
5.ANKYLOSING SPONDOLYITIS
6.ANTI GBM OR TBM NEPHRITIS
7.ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME
8.ATOPIC ALLERGY
9.AUTOIMMUNE ADDISON’S DISEASE
10.AUTOIMMUNE APLASTIC ANEMIA
11.AUTOIMMUNE ATHEROSCLEROSIS
12.AUTOIMMUNE ATROPHIC GASTRITIS
13.AUTOIMMUNE ACHLORHYDRA
14.AUTOIMMUNE DIABETES INSIPIDUS
15.AUTOIMMUNE ENDOMETRIOSIS
16.AUTOIMMUNE DYSAUTONOMIA
17.AUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS (EAE)
18.AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA
19.AUTOIMMUNE HEMOPHILIA
20.AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS
21.AUTOIMMUNE HYPERLIPIDEMIA
22.AUTOIMMUNE IMMUNODEFICIENCY
23.AUTOIMMUNE INNER EAR DISEASE (AIED)
24.AUTOIMMUNE INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS
25.AUTOIMMUNE LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE SYNDROME (ALPS)
26.AUTOIMMUNE MUCOCUTANEOUS BLISTERING DISEASE
27.AUTOIMMUNE MYELOPATHY
28.AUTOIMMUNE MYOCARDITIS
29.AUTOIMMUNE NEUTROPENIA
30.AUTOIMMUNE OOPHORITIS
31.AUTOIMMUNE ORCHITIS
32.AUTOIMMUNE PROGESTERONE DERMATITIS
33.AUTOIMMUNE PROSTATITIS
34.AUTOIMMUNE URTICARIA
35.AXCHAL AND NEURONAL NEUROPATHIES
36.BALO DISEASE
37.BEHCET’S DISEASE
38.BELLOW’S PEMPHIGOID
39.BERGER’S DISEASE (IgA NEPHROPATHY)
40.CARDIOMYOPATHY
41.CELIAC SPRUE
42.CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VASCULITIS
43.CHRONIC FATIGUE IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME (CFIDS)
44.CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME
45.CICATRICIAL PEMPHIGOID
46.COGAN’S SYNDROME
47.COLD AGGLUTININ DISEASE
48.CREST SYNDROME
49.CROHN’S DISEASE
50.CRYOGLOBULINEMIA
51.CUSHING’S SYNDROME
52.DEGO’S DISEASE
53.DERMATITIS
54.DERMATOMYOSITIS
55.DEVIC DISEASE
56.DRESSLER’S SYNDROME
57.DISCOID LUPUS
58.EOSINOPHILIC FASCIITIS
59.EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA ACQUISITA
60.ERYTHMATOSIS
61.ESSENTIAL MIXED CRYOGLOBULINEMIA
62.EVAN’S SYNDROME
63.FIBROMYALGIA
64.FIBROMYOSITIS
65.FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS
66.GLOMERULONEPHRITIS
67.GOOD PASTURE’S SYNDROME
68.GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE
69.GRAVE’S DISEASE
70.GUILLAIN –BARRE
71. HASHIMOTO’S ENCEPHALOPATHY
72.HASHIMOTO’S THYROIDITIS
73.HENOCH-SCHONLEIN PURPURA
74.HERPES GESTATIONIS
75.IDIOPATHIC ADRENAL ATROPHY
76.IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS
77.IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIA PURPURA
78.IgA MEDIATED DISEASES
79.IgA NEUROPATHY
80.INCLUSION BODY MYOSITIS
81.INFLAMMATORY DEMYLINATING POLYNEUROPATHY
82.INFLAMMATORY DEMYLINATING POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY
83.INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES (TYPE 1)
84.JUVENILE ARTHRITIS
85.KAWASAKI’S DISEASE
86.LAMBERT EATON SYNDROME (LEMS)
87.LEUKOCYTOCLASTIC VASCULITIS
88.LICHEN PLANUS
89.LINEAR IgA DISEASE
90.LINEAR MORPHEA
91.LYMPHOCYTIC HYPOPHYSITIS
92.LUPOID HEPATITIS
93.LYMPHOPENIA (SOME CASES)
94.MENIERES DISEASE
95.MICROSCOPIC POLYANGITIS
96.MILLER FISHER SYNDROME
97.MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE
98.MULTICENTRIC RHETICULONODULAR HISTIOCYTOSIS
99.MULTIPLE MYELOMA
100.MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
101. MYASTHENIA GRAVIS
102.NEUROMYOTONIA (ISAAC’S SYNDROME)
103. OCULAR CICATRICIAL PEMPHIGOID
104. PALINDROMIC RHEUMATISM
105.PANDAS (PEDIATRIC AUTOIMMUNE NEUROPSCHYCHIATRY DISORDER)
106.PARANEOPLASTIC AUTOIMMUNE SYNDROME
107.PARANEOPLASTIC PEMPHIGUS
108.PARS PLANITIS
109.PARSONNAGE-TURNER SYNDROME
110.PEMPHIGOID
111.PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS
112.PERIVENOUS ENCEPHALOMYELITIS
113.PERNICIOUS ANEMIA
114.PHACOGENIC UVEITIS
115.POLYARTERITIS NODOSA
116.POLYCHONDRITIS
117. POLYENDOCRINE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME
118.POLYGLANDULAR SYNDROME
119.POLYMYALGIA RHEUMATICA
120.POLYMYOSITIS
121.PRIMARY AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA
122.PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOIS
123.PRIMARY SCLEROSING Cholangitis
124.PSORIASIS
125.PURE RED CELL APLASIA
126.RAYNAUD’S PHENOMENON
127.REITER’S SYNDROME
128.RELAPSING POLYCHONDRITIS
129.RHEUMATIC FEVER
130.RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
131.SARCOIDOSIS
132.SCHMIDT’S SYNDROME
133.SCLERITIS
134.SCLERODERMA
135.SJOGREN’S SYNDROME
136.SPERM AND TESTICULAR AUTOIMMUNITY
137.STIFF PERSON SYNDROME
138.SYDENHAM CHOREA
139.SYMPATHETIC OPHTHALMIA
140.SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS (ORGAN THREATENING OR NON ORGAN THREATENING) –SLE
141.SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS
142. TAKAYASU’S ARTERITIS
143.TEMPORAL ARTERITIS/GIANT CELL ARTERITIS
144.THYROTOXICOSIS
145.TYPE B INSULIN RESISTANCE
146.ULCERATIVE COLITIS
147.UNDIFFERENTIATED MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE (UCTD)
148.UVEITIS
149.VASCULITIS
150.VITILGO
151.WEGENER’S GRANULOMATOSIS
152.WISKOTT-ALDRICH SYNDROME

Going by this list, I have had Rhuematic Fever, Vitiligo, Nutropenia, Ulcerative Colitis, Grave’s Disease, and Thyroid Eye Disease…..This isn’t even counting Cervical Cancer, Hives and Allergies which some speculate might be a result of autoimmune disorders.

So, it seems that somewhere along the way, my autoimmune system was compromised. I believe it happened in utero with me, as I was contracted Scarlet Fever when I was an infant. I could also speculate that growing up in a house with a chain smoker and two sets of grandparent caregivers who smoked constantly might have helped contribute to the exacerbation of some of my health issues. I was always sick, and got pnuemonia at least once each winter/spring for as long as I can remember…..photos of me at Christmas and Easter seem to always show a rough red nose, and I remember that I always seemed to catch a viruses a little easier and much more intensely than most.

But, if you have a thyroid disorder, you should carefully go over your medical history and see if you can see a history of autoimmune diseases.