| Do you have Graves disease? If so, then you must be | | | | are both autoimmune diseases. Like Graves disease, |
| suffering from rheumatoid arthritis as well. Graves | | | | rheumatoid arthritis is a problem with the immune |
| disease and rheumatoid arthritis are two diseases that | | | | system, causing chronic inflammation on the joints. A |
| are linked to each other. One common symptom of | | | | person with rheumatoid arthritis has his joints being |
| patients suffering from this disease is a fine tremor in | | | | attacked by the antibodies, thinking that they are |
| their hands and fingers. Incidentally, this is also a | | | | detrimental to the body processes. |
| symptom of rheumatoid arthritis. | | | | But of course, either the thyroid glands or the ligaments |
| Graves disease is an autoimmune disease. It is a | | | | of the joints they aren't harmful to one's health at all. |
| health problem wherein a person's immune system | | | | But both of them moves the body's immune system |
| attacks the thyroid glands. And consequently, it causes | | | | to think and work otherwise. The antibodies, instead of |
| the same gland to produce too much thyroxin | | | | attacking bacteria and viruses, end up destroying the |
| hormone. It is usually referred to as hyperthyroidism's | | | | glands and the parts that are needed by the body to |
| most common form. | | | | function. |
| The similarity between the two is the fact that they | | | | |