I have been diagnosed with Grave's disease, and the symptom I can't stand the most is the dark circles under my eyes….my question is this: If I go through with the radiation treatment to obliterate my thyroid, will my dark cirlces get better? how long will it take?

You should read this
4woman.gov/faq/graves.htm

Prostate cancer usually doesn't cause symptoms in its early stages. Between 60% and 70% of men who are older than 80 who have prostate cancer have no symptoms. 2

When there are symptoms, they may include:

* having difficulty starting your urine stream. This is called hesitancy.
* having a weaker than normal urine stream.
* Being unable to urinate at all.
* having to urinate often.
* Feeling that your bladder is not emptying completely when you urinate.
* having to get up at night to urinate. This is called nocturia.
* having pain or a burning feeling when you urinate. This is called dysuria.
* having blood in your urine. This is called hematuria.
* having blood in your semen. This is called hematospermia.
* having a deep pain in your lower back, abdomen, hip, or pelvis.

Go here—> prostatecancerfoundation.org/

My grandfather hardly had any symptoms, and didn't know he had it until a doctor found it. He got radiation treatment and survived.
Check with a doctor at least once a year. And many people survive it.
Good luck!

I had it, didn't know it. I was feeling just great at the time and it was very scary to learn I had the big "C". I had no symptoms at the time and I was 54 when it was found.

Unfortunately, there are really none specifically. that is why the best idea is to have regular PSA tests by your doctor. It's just a simple blood test but take it from me it's very important to have done, even if you don't suspect you might have it. if others in your family have had it or breast cancer, it's especially important to have the test and it's hereditary

Getting up more than twice during the night to go to the bathroom, difficulty emptying the bladder, reduced force of the stream, difficulty starting the stream.
However, the same things happen with benign prostate hypertrophy.
During your annual physical, the doc will do a check of the prostate. if he feels any bumps or lumps, you will be sent for a biopsy.
The only way to tell for certain is to have the PSA (prostate specific antigen) level checked. if it is high, biopsies will be done.
Any infection or inflammation of the prostate will raise the PSA, as will a recent ejaculation.
It is recommended to have a PSA drawn yearly if you are over age fifity, but prostate cancer has been found in younger men.
The prostate keeps growing throughout life, and as it grows, the PSA becomes slightly higher. A higher PSA in a seventy or eighty year old man does not necessarily mean that he has prostate cancer.

I had my left lung fill with fluid and collapse after radiation treatment for Breast Cancer. The lung was drained with Thorocentesis and I was hospitalized for a week and put on prednisone – 40 mg reduced to zero in 1 week. I experienced symptoms of heart … more »

I had my left lung fill with fluid and collapse after radiation treatment for Breast Cancer. The lung was drained with Thorocentesis and I was hospitalized for a week and put on prednisone – 40 mg reduced to zero in 1 week. I experienced symptoms of heart attack as reaction to reduction from prednisone. When it was determined by enzyme testing in hospital that heart not damaged I was sent home with prescription of prednisone starting at 60 -10 days, to 40- 5 days, to 30 – 10 days, to 20-10 days. The cumulative effect of these doses was all the side effects mentioned by others, loss of emotional and physical balance, stability, swelling, moon face, insomnia, depression, crying, stomach pain, constipation, etc. I dropped myself to 20mg for 9 days but on the 8th day had recurrence of lung pain and feared possible fluid build up through tissues damage/leak caused by radiation – they are calling it pleurisy or pleural effusion. (It was also determined that I must be on constant oxygen and sleep on oxygen as my breathing capacity is below 88 off of oxygen.) Dr. found not enough fluid to drain without risk to damaging my diaphragm so upped the prednisone again to 30 for 14 days. using pain and shortness of breath as a measure of lung condition I must not dampen pain now but suffer it to monitor my lung so as to avoid trips for constant X-rays. I continue to suffer from prednisone and it has disabled me so that my normal life cannot be resumed in any way. I want to get off of it, but after reading these reports, I am very worried – supposedly the steroid is allowing my radiated lung to heal, but if that is not happening I think the steroids are possibly more life threatening than the lung – in any case, what life? What other choices do I have to survive the damage done to me by radiation?