Re: My update

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What sorts of eye problems can people with Hashi's have? My eyes bug me a lot, and have for years (I also wear glasses), but nothing that seems to fit a particular dx.

My update

A couple days ago I went to "gasp" one of the few types of drs that I trust!!!!This is an eye dr. Great news, my eyes have not changed hardly any in seven years!That includes the glaucoma that I have been dxed with.He said that those with hashimoto's can have crazy visual problems. My response? I already am crazy!!!

So I got new glasses, my old ones had such scratched lenses and being held together by duct tape!

hugs

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My vision is good, in fact at 41, I don't need glasses for reading or distance <knock wood.> But I do get a sort of fogginess in my sight now and then, as if there was a film over my eyes. I can blink it away, but in the next blink, it's back. I also get ocular migraines, which are like regular migraines without the pain <again, knock wood.> I get the visual disturbances and funky wavy jagged watercolor lines in my field of vision, but don't get the headaches. Other than that, I have no eye problems at all.

You see how all of this is beginning to click??? My mother had Grave's and had RAI which brought her thyroid function back to normal <?> although now I question that, since the doctor that treated her was the same one who left me at 8.5 TSH as "ok." She also had migraines all her life, but she got the icky headachy ones with the getting sick and the dark room with no sound.

Things that make ya go hmmmmmmmmmmm......

-- Re: My update

What sorts of eye problems can people with Hashi's have? My eyes bug me a lot, and have for years (I also wear glasses), but nothing that seems to fit a particular dx.

My update

A couple days ago I went to "gasp" one of the few types of drs that I trust!!!!This is an eye dr. Great news, my eyes have not changed hardly any in seven years!That includes the glaucoma that I have been dxed with.He said that those with hashimoto's can have crazy visual problems. My response? I already am crazy!!!

So I got new glasses, my old ones had such scratched lenses and being held together by duct tape!

hugs

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TED is most common in Grave's, but others can get it.

I've known a few that have gone from Grave's to

Hashi's so it's important to check all antibodies each

year if you are still having problems.

SAMMIE

--- Blazing Krimson wrote:

> My vision is good, in fact at 41, I don't need

> glasses for reading or distance <knock wood.> But I

> do get a sort of fogginess in my sight now and then,

> as if there was a film over my eyes. I can blink it

> away, but in the next blink, it's back. I also get

> ocular migraines, which are like regular migraines

> without the pain <again, knock wood.> I get the

> visual disturbances and funky wavy jagged watercolor

> lines in my field of vision, but don't get the

> headaches. Other than that, I have no eye problems

> at all.

>

> You see how all of this is beginning to click??? My

> mother had Grave's and had RAI which brought her

> thyroid function back to normal <?> although now I

> question that, since the doctor that treated her was

> the same one who left me at 8.5 TSH as " ok. " She

> also had migraines all her life, but she got the

> icky headachy ones with the getting sick and the

> dark room with no sound.

>

> Things that make ya go hmmmmmmmmmmm......

>

>

> -- Re: My update

>

>

> What sorts of eye problems can people with Hashi's

> have? My eyes bug me a lot, and have for years (I

> also wear glasses), but nothing that seems to fit a

> particular dx.

>

>

> My update

>

>

> A couple days ago I went to " gasp " one of the few

> types of drs that I trust!!!!This is an eye dr.

> Great news, my eyes have not changed hardly any in

> seven years!That includes the glaucoma that I have

> been dxed with.He said that those with hashimoto's

> can have crazy visual problems. My response? I

> already am crazy!!!

> So I got new glasses, my old ones had such

> scratched lenses and being held together by duct

> tape!

> hugs

>

> ThyroFeisty(Feisty)

> www.thyrophoenix.com

> I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on

> us. Pigs treat us as equals.

> Sir Winston Churchill

> British politician (1874 - 1965)

>

> ThyroFeisty(Feisty)

> www.thyrophoenix.com

> I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on

> us. Pigs treat us as equals.

> Sir Winston Churchill

> British politician (1874 - 1965)

>

>

> ---------------------------------

>

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What happened to me is that I developed fast growing cataracts and glaucoma very early... I was about age 40.These cataracts and the glaucoma occurred in a matter of six weeks! I was 20/200 in one eye and close to that in the other.I am an avid reader and when I could not see to read anything, watch tv, computers--- that was pure torture for me!My opthamologists were the first drs to recognize my thyroid disease.

I am thinking it is a lot like diabetes.A person's vision often changes with their changes in the blood sugar levels.

Also, food for thought....... thyroid disease and sjogren's are so closely related.Those with sjogren's suffer from problems with their eyes, etc....

Feisty

My update

A couple days ago I went to "gasp" one of the few types of drs that I trust!!!!This is an eye dr. Great news, my eyes have not changed hardly any in seven years!That includes the glaucoma that I have been dxed with.He said that those with hashimoto's can have crazy visual problems. My response? I already am crazy!!!

So I got new glasses, my old ones had such scratched lenses and being held together by duct tape!

hugs

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OH hey, there's a connection between Hashi's and eyesight too?

I ask because a) I am VERY nearsighted, though I don't think the onset was related to the Hashi's and I have this weird perceptual thing . . . I have a problem connecting what I see to what I know to be reality. It's not like hallucinations or anything but ......... for example, if I meet up with a friend I haven't seen in a while, I don't visually recognize them. I'll recognize their voice, the sound of their footsteps, their general carriage, but for about 10-15 minutes they will be sort of foreign looking to me. So I KNOW it's my friend, but I don't SEE my friend, does that make sense?

My other big issue is making the map match the geography. I am GOOD at map reading, and really good at getting around, but I can't look at a map and understand it related to my own surroundings.

Weird, I know ......... but I jsut figured this out a few months ago. It's done wonders for my self esteem, though, because I realize it's a perceptual problem and not a crazy girl problem.

Um not that I'm not crazy though. *grin*

in LA

He said that those with hashimoto's can have crazy visual problems.

[Guest guest]

I used to have those type of migraines too and my doc called them A-typical had a few of the others then they changed in 1990. Haven't had any since I started on the naturopathic regime, one more thing that seems to be getting straightened out. Didn't realize that they hadn't been happening till now and I used to get 2-3 a week. Wow some improvement going here.

DawnBlazing Krimson wrote:

My vision is good, in fact at 41, I don't need glasses for reading or distance <knock wood.> But I do get a sort of fogginess in my sight now and then, as if there was a film over my eyes. I can blink it away, but in the next blink, it's back. I also get ocular migraines, which are like regular migraines without the pain <again, knock wood.> I get the visual disturbances and funky wavy jagged watercolor lines in my field of vision, but don't get the headaches. Other than that, I have no eye problems at all.

You see how all of this is beginning to click??? My mother had Grave's and had RAI which brought her thyroid function back to normal <?> although now I question that, since the doctor that treated her was the same one who left me at 8.5 TSH as "ok." She also had migraines all her life, but she got the icky headachy ones with the getting sick and the dark room with no sound.

Things that make ya go hmmmmmmmmmmm......

-- Re: My update

What sorts of eye problems can people with Hashi's have? My eyes bug me a lot, and have for years (I also wear glasses), but nothing that seems to fit a particular dx.

My update

A couple days ago I went to "gasp" one of the few types of drs that I trust!!!!This is an eye dr. Great news, my eyes have not changed hardly any in seven years!That includes the glaucoma that I have been dxed with.He said that those with hashimoto's can have crazy visual problems. My response? I already am crazy!!!

So I got new glasses, my old ones had such scratched lenses and being held together by duct tape!

hugs

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I had chronic severe headaches that started when I was in the first grade. They followed me all through my hyper years, got worse during thyroid storm, continued on through all the years that I was hypo and on either Synthroid or without meds.... since starting on natural AND adding adrenal glandular headaches are a rarity and can easily be linked to doing something dumb - too short on sleep, eye strain, pulled my neck funny/slept funny or heat....

I THINK it has something to do with stress and over exertion by the adrenals.. but I'm not sure.... while hyper and before starting on natural and adding the adrenal I THINK that my adrenals were over worked.. that the headaches were my body's way of making me go lay down......

After living for most of my life with headaches that routinely lasted for weeks at a time.... I hope they NEVER come back like that again....

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On Fri, 6 May 2005 18:03:09 -0700 (PDT) dawn prince writes:

I used to have those type of migraines too and my doc called them A-typical had a few of the others then they changed in 1990. Haven't had any since I started on the naturopathic regime, one more thing that seems to be getting straightened out. Didn't realize that they hadn't been happening till now and I used to get 2-3 a week. Wow some improvement going here.

Dawn

[Guest guest]

> I used to have those type of migraines too and my doc called them A-

typical had a few of the others then they changed in 1990. Haven't

had any since I started on the naturopathic regime, one more thing

that seems to be getting straightened out. Didn't realize that they

hadn't been happening till now and I used to get 2-3 a week. Wow

some improvement going here.

I also get ocular migraines, which are like regular migraines

without the pain <again, knock wood.> I get the visual disturbances

and funky wavy jagged watercolor lines in my field of vision, but

don't get the headaches. Other than that, I have no eye problems at

all.

>

This is one thing I do not understand about me, I get migraines, they

run in the family, thankfully not very often and if I keep my

potassium high during my cycle they seem to stay away that and avoid

MSG.

But I always get the hide in the dark, projectile vomitting type of

migraine. No migraine meds work but getting sick does..3 hours of

sleep later and I am fine.

January at work after my break I just went green..looked like death

warmed over. They wanted me to go to the hospital but I didn't. I

went to the doctor the next day who immediately sent me to an eye

specialist and they said it was a new type of migraine. All the

migraine symptoms, more sensitive to light on the eyes but no head

ache. I still think it is related to the thyroid though as it seems

to happen when I get really bad hyper symptoms, and then after the

sympotms go away for a few days and then start building up again..and

the one eye is still sensitive to bright lights.

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I've always had problems driving anywhere, where I'm not in familiar territory. It's not a matter of not knowing which roads to take, according to a map, it's my immediate visual reaction to "bringing things together" into perspective, as I approach an intersection or somewhere I may be supposed to turn, etc.....i.e., I may be well past it before I know for sure that that's where I was supposed to turn. This has been a VERY nightmarish problem for me all my life. I also have a LOT of trouble relating directions or rather the relationship of one point in a strange area to another point, even though I may have been there several times. It's gotten even more ridiculous over the past 10 yrs or so, to the point that it has stopped me from going a lot of places that I need to go. My far AND near vision, either one, is not good either, so that magnifies the problems even more so. I have 3 prs of broken glasses and have backburnered a trip to an ophthalmologist for around 10 to 15 yrs now!

Re: My update

OH hey, there's a connection between Hashi's and eyesight too?

I ask because a) I am VERY nearsighted, though I don't think the onset was related to the Hashi's and I have this weird perceptual thing . . . I have a problem connecting what I see to what I know to be reality. It's not like hallucinations or anything but ......... for example, if I meet up with a friend I haven't seen in a while, I don't visually recognize them. I'll recognize their voice, the sound of their footsteps, their general carriage, but for about 10-15 minutes they will be sort of foreign looking to me. So I KNOW it's my friend, but I don't SEE my friend, does that make sense?

My other big issue is making the map match the geography. I am GOOD at map reading, and really good at getting around, but I can't look at a map and understand it related to my own surroundings.

Weird, I know ......... but I jsut figured this out a few months ago. It's done wonders for my self esteem, though, because I realize it's a perceptual problem and not a crazy girl problem.

Um not that I'm not crazy though. *grin*

in LA

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This recalls what happened to Leon after his stroke.He could read numbers, but could not make sense out of letters any more.He would also get his words mixed up-- like saying turtle when he meant dog.He has regained quite a bit of his ability to read again, but he still has problems in the brain recognizing what he sees...His opthamo;olgist has said it is not due to physical damage. His mind just has difficulties in interpretation.

He is diabetic, and I am convinced he also has thyroid disease, but can't get anyone at the Veteran's to listen..They seem to be in that same mindset as a lot of drs in the civilian world.

Even though I just had my eyes examined and new glasses, the past two/three days, my vision has fluctuated again....Hashimoto's I suppose

Feisty

Re: My update

OH hey, there's a connection between Hashi's and eyesight too?

I ask because a) I am VERY nearsighted, though I don't think the onset was related to the Hashi's and I have this weird perceptual thing . . . I have a problem connecting what I see to what I know to be reality. It's not like hallucinations or anything but ......... for example, if I meet up with a friend I haven't seen in a while, I don't visually recognize them. I'll recognize their voice, the sound of their footsteps, their general carriage, but for about 10-15 minutes they will be sort of foreign looking to me. So I KNOW it's my friend, but I don't SEE my friend, does that make sense?

My other big issue is making the map match the geography. I am GOOD at map reading, and really good at getting around, but I can't look at a map and understand it related to my own surroundings.

Weird, I know ......... but I jsut figured this out a few months ago. It's done wonders for my self esteem, though, because I realize it's a perceptual problem and not a crazy girl problem.

Um not that I'm not crazy though. *grin*

in LA