Graves disease

[Missy1950]

Has anyone been told that their Graves’ disease contributed to their kidney disease. I had untreated Graves for 5 years and researched that it could cause CKD

[PittieMom0]

I was diagnosed with Stage 3 CKD back in 2017 and am now going through labs because they think I have Graves Disease now also. Thank you for your post because the dots are starting to connect for me!

[horsie63 in reply to PittieMom0]

giv n what I know now I’ve probably had graves all my life as it’s an autoimmune disease. What caused the flare was a very stressful time when my daughter was in a car accident. Is it possible it contributed to my CKD sure but there’s no way to prove it. I just keep stress low in order to remain in remission.

[Missy1950 in reply to PittieMom0]

Very interesting. The thyroid effects every organ in our body. It only makes sense that having too much TSH which causes graves would effect us. I also was just diagnosed with with pulmonary hypertension and graves is also a contributing factor to that.

Hopefully once the graves is corrected, our CKD may improve along with correcting other things in our body.

[horsie63]

in my case being in remission has done nothing to lessen my CKD. I continue to slide closer to stage 5. I also have a mitochondrial disease which is causing retinal dysfunction and sensoneural hearing loss. It may or may not be the cause of my kidney failure but I need another genetic test to rule that out.