Whole Body Support Blog » Graves Disease

A journey through a Thyroid Condition, by Shirley Aboudib. In the Spring of 2011 I began to experience symptoms that I had never had before.  I was having heart palpitations - rapid, irregular, sometimes really scary heart beats.  Sometimes I seemed really nervous and anxious for no reason.  My knees and ankles were swelling to the point that it was difficult to bend down, climb stairs, get in the car.  At my daughter's graduation in Nashville, my ankles were so swollen that my shoes were tight and uncomfortable.  For a while I had seen an upward spiral with my weight...