Graves Disease

Graves Disease can be very serious. If your eyes have staring eyelids, or eyelids where your eyelids are opening up too widely, making an incredibly weird, wide stare, then your eyes are in retraction and are disconcerting to the onlooker. Eyelid retraction might cause you to look dumb or maybe have a look of an ongoing surprise. Eyelid retraction is found more often in women’s eyes than men’s. In some cases people do consider this attractive. But the most common cause of this eyelid retraction is Graves Disease.

Graves Disease is when you have tumors or an inflammation behind the eye that can also cause the eye to become more prominent. The retraction of your eyelids often becomes the subject of intense research during the late 1900’s, after it was found to be in former First Lady Barbara Bush. People often noted how widely Mrs. Bush’s eyes opened. Then it came out in the news that Mrs. Bush actually had Graves Disease.

Graves Disease Symptoms

Graves Disease shows how important it is that you have normal eyelid position. The big difficulty with eyelid retraction is that when the eyelid opening is abnormally large, higher evaporation of tears can produce dryness of the eyes. This is uncomfortable and dangerous, as is opens your eyes up to potential infections.

You can have a surgery to get rid of Graves Disease. The surgery can cure your eyelid retraction by weakening the muscles that lift your upper eyelids. This surgery is often covered by health insurance, because if you don’t have the surgery you are opening yourself up to other health problems down the road.

Graves Disease Definition

If you have a looseness in your lower eyelid, or the lower eyelid laxity, it is usually associated with getting older. The lax eyelid sags and is unable to adequately protect the eye, which is a situation that produces continual tearing and the potential for chronic eye irritation. The underlying problem of this is the stretching of the tendon that keeps the lower eyelid pulled snugly around the eye. You can have surgery performed to take care of this by cutting a half-inch incision on the outer corner of your eye. The stretched tendon is then removed and a new tendon is reconstructed out of stronger lower eyelid tissues and is fastened at the outer corner of the eyelid. Graves Disease can be a very serious condition and should be caught early for best treatment.