Re: Dry eyes and Antibodies

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In a message dated 4/30/2003 9:17:14 AM Eastern Standard Time,

graves_support writes:

> The opthamologist said that in some instances, dry eyes were the result of

> an autoimmune problem where antibodies were possibly attacking the tear

> film or something. He didn't know what antibodies and said it had nothing

> to with TED or thyroid antibodies. He said that when artificial tears

> didn't work, they sometimes use the immunosupressant " cyclosporin " .

>

This sounds like Sjogren Syndrome. Many of its symptoms overlap those of

Graves'. Many people have both autoimmune diseases concurrently.

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