Ayaka- just married, diseased and might be retiring!?
 

....that's right. Not only has Ayaka gotten married with Hiro Mizushima, she's supossedly....

quitting music cause she has Graves' disease....

on the bright side she's coming out with a new single but I'm assuming this will be the final album. :(

Sources (official):
http://news.google.co.jp/news?hl=ja&...num=1&ct=title

EDIT: after re-reading and double checking, it appears right now that she is GOING TO TAKE A BREAK. It's not for sure that she's retiring, that was a rumor I heard, I hope its not true though! I'd much rather have a long break than her never coming back! But basically she's quitting for a while.

Sources (unofficial, retiring rumors):
http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/ryobaka/diary/200904030004/
http://emuh.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2...post-6d6c.html
http://minkara.carview.co.jp/userid/...blog/12757005/

If there's a mod reading this, could you please change the title of this thread to "might be retiring"? I think I was too caught up in the moment... from grief. :(

All thyroid's diseases can cure without problem!

So, it's sad that she take a break. However I can understand her. I was tired for a long time so I think she need a rest too.

That's actually quite interesting in terms of coincidence, since I'm on an endocrinology service this month and there's a lot of Grave's disease patients I have to see there. The disease has treatment, so that doesn't mean she has to retire because of it. Maybe take a few months off to get her T hormones under control. Not sure if her looks have changed though, since Graves can often complicate with a ophtalmopathy or a large goiter can be visible over the neck. Surgery or radioactive iodine can solve the goiter problem though, but, then I guess she discovered it quite early. Anyone has any recent pictures of her?

All I acn wish is for her to get well and back to business!

you could look at her new cover single!

I did not know that this disease was the same thing as thryoid issues, thanks for clearing that up. The press made it sound like she had something much worse.

Maybe but media like to darken the reality. And It's, maybe, a way to increase her single sale. People think" oh no, she'll be retiring and she is sick "So, they buy her stuff!

That makes sense; it certainly has the effect. I was just at Yahoo! Japan Auction and eBay looking for CDs of her that I don't own. ( O__O )

ImpactBreaker:

My set was made from promotional pictures/ CD covers of her new single, 夢を味方に。

from teth @ JPM

Thanks for that quote, can you share the link? I'd like to read the rest of it.

It would be really sad if she retired, she's such a fantastic singer.

it's just that, lol, but here's the thread:

http://jpopmusic.com/forums/viewtopi...1439&start=975

everyone was discussing about this & still's in the ayaka thread

I really hope it's not true at all , it will be a big shame for her to 'retire' so early :(

oh my.. that's sad..

It's hyperthyroid look at wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graves%27_disease


Why I find more alarming it's more and more young people have thyroid disease. Normally, it's people who is 40, 50 or more who are affected by them! The air is really bad nowadays.

There isn't a specific known cause for why it starts, but what happens is that some defense cells called lymphocytes that were supposed to make antibodies to defend the person against germes and tumors, one day look at the person's thyroid and say "hmm that thing doesn't belong here" and then they start producing antibodies against certain thyroid structures. In the case of Graves, however, the antibodies actually stimmulate some receptors in the thyroid gland, causing the gland to grow (and then a goiter can appear over the neck) and produce too much hormone. The inflammation process can also affect the structures that holds the eyes, making the eye balls to protrude (exophtalmia). The thyroid hormones are important for basal body metabolism (kinda like a button that determines at what speed and intensity should our cells work, grossly speaking). The excess of it makes the body cells to overwork, making the heart to beat faster and sometimes it even goes crazy beating fast and randomly with not much synchrony (arrhytmias), and get overloaded if not treated, finally leading to cardiac pump failure; rise in the body temperature, weight loss and intolerance to heat, because of the excessive production of heat energy from overwork; the person becomes more agitated, speaking faster and too much and the hands start to tremble. Bone minerals start to get wasted..and well, all that stuff and more can happen if the disease is not properly treated.

you should use the word disease i think... she's not dead yet right?

i think your misunderstanding. it's "diseased", not "deceased" :laugh

I didn't understand what that person meant until you said this rofl!:thud I'm a lil slow:innocent

I saw an interview with her and her husband; she was crying while she spoke of it, it was so terrible :(

I can understand why she cried!
What I didn't say before is if she underwent a surgery (apparently it's not the case) she could lost her beautiful voice! Because surgeon must push on the side, vocal chords. However, the chance is really weak! So, I think it's ok!

That would be... T o T

While I can't really assume she cried because of that, you're right about the surgery. Neck surgeries, specially thyroid ones, carry the risk of injuring the recurrent laryngeal nerves, which control the motion of the vocal chords, causing permanent hoarseness, which would finish a singer's career I reckon.

However, she doesn't even have a large goiter to need a surgery so far (unless they heavily photoshopped her latest pictures) and there's some options before resorting to surgery, like drugs and radioactive iodine to treat this disease, so it doesn't mean she necessarily has to go through a surgery to get this problem under control. If she needs a surgery, I think she'll surely pick a very experienced surgeon to do the procedure.