Re: going to ophthalmologist

[Guest guest]

This sounds like a classic migraine, with the wavy " neon " lights and central

vision cut off in front of you. I have one every now and then and have to

turn my head in order to see people's faces in front of me, if that makes

sense. Before I started the Armour and was subtly hypo, I got several of

them a year. I haven't had one now in about 6 months or so. I'm not saying

that you can't get them if you're not hypo, I just noticed that I haven't

had one in that long. The visual things, irritability, restlessness, and

anxiety always hit me before the headache does, then, as the headache

starts, all these things go away at once. They call this " classic

migraine " . I had never gotten one in my life before around 15 yrs ago, but

did have only one when I was 12, sitting in one of my classrooms at school.

I didn't know what it was then. In fact, I didn't know what they were until

somewhere in my late thirties.

going to ophthalmologist

> I am going to an ophthalmologist (medical eye doctor) this afternoon.

> As I have stated before my eyesight seems to be getting " smaller " ,

> more tunneled. I can't stand bright lights, nor dim lights

> sometimes. They both bring can bring on migraine headaches, which I

> have had a lot of lately. Not to mention, seeing bright shiny lights

> every now and then. And not being able to focus in on people's faces-

> -sometimes their eyes/face is foggy. Strange!

>

> I want to make sure that there isn't anything else going here, either

> thyroid related or not. I hope if there is something wrong he can

> discover it.

>

> Any one been to this type of doc before for thyroid eye issues?

[Guest guest]

This sounds like a classic migraine, with the wavy " neon " lights and central

vision cut off in front of you. I have one every now and then and have to

turn my head in order to see people's faces in front of me, if that makes

sense. Before I started the Armour and was subtly hypo, I got several of

them a year. I haven't had one now in about 6 months or so. I'm not saying

that you can't get them if you're not hypo, I just noticed that I haven't

had one in that long. The visual things, irritability, restlessness, and

anxiety always hit me before the headache does, then, as the headache

starts, all these things go away at once. They call this " classic

migraine " . I had never gotten one in my life before around 15 yrs ago, but

did have only one when I was 12, sitting in one of my classrooms at school.

I didn't know what it was then. In fact, I didn't know what they were until

somewhere in my late thirties.

going to ophthalmologist

> I am going to an ophthalmologist (medical eye doctor) this afternoon.

> As I have stated before my eyesight seems to be getting " smaller " ,

> more tunneled. I can't stand bright lights, nor dim lights

> sometimes. They both bring can bring on migraine headaches, which I

> have had a lot of lately. Not to mention, seeing bright shiny lights

> every now and then. And not being able to focus in on people's faces-

> -sometimes their eyes/face is foggy. Strange!

>

> I want to make sure that there isn't anything else going here, either

> thyroid related or not. I hope if there is something wrong he can

> discover it.

>

> Any one been to this type of doc before for thyroid eye issues?

[Guest guest]

This sounds like a classic migraine, with the wavy " neon " lights and central

vision cut off in front of you. I have one every now and then and have to

turn my head in order to see people's faces in front of me, if that makes

sense. Before I started the Armour and was subtly hypo, I got several of

them a year. I haven't had one now in about 6 months or so. I'm not saying

that you can't get them if you're not hypo, I just noticed that I haven't

had one in that long. The visual things, irritability, restlessness, and

anxiety always hit me before the headache does, then, as the headache

starts, all these things go away at once. They call this " classic

migraine " . I had never gotten one in my life before around 15 yrs ago, but

did have only one when I was 12, sitting in one of my classrooms at school.

I didn't know what it was then. In fact, I didn't know what they were until

somewhere in my late thirties.

going to ophthalmologist

> I am going to an ophthalmologist (medical eye doctor) this afternoon.

> As I have stated before my eyesight seems to be getting " smaller " ,

> more tunneled. I can't stand bright lights, nor dim lights

> sometimes. They both bring can bring on migraine headaches, which I

> have had a lot of lately. Not to mention, seeing bright shiny lights

> every now and then. And not being able to focus in on people's faces-

> -sometimes their eyes/face is foggy. Strange!

>

> I want to make sure that there isn't anything else going here, either

> thyroid related or not. I hope if there is something wrong he can

> discover it.

>

> Any one been to this type of doc before for thyroid eye issues?

[Guest guest]

I have no cataracts and haven't done any research at all on this, but I will

say that my eyes have been extremely light sensitive for over 20 yrs now.

It is so ridiculous that I wear sunglasses even on very cloudy days, and

people who don't have this sensitivity look at me and may be thinking

(hehe!) that I'm maybe smoking marijuana because I'm wearing my sunglasses

on the darkest of days. I am also night blind all my life. One thing we do

know about the eyes and thyroid disease is that we have all kinds of trouble

converting beta carotene into vitamin A, and this is vitally important for

the eyes. I am now taking Bilberry on acct of this. The daughter who lives

with me also has Hashi's and has a cataract that's not been removed, but it

was definitely brought on by an accident she had with her eye some yrs ago.

It was the only repercussion of the accident. She says that she sees in

bright light something like a person would see through a windshield with

sunlight shining through it. I know that when she had an eye exam done by a

retinal specialist, he said that she had a red-green or blue deficit in her

color vision? I do not understand this part of medicine because I really

truthfully have not made it a point to, but I know that I should. She is

now 34 yrs old and simply won't take care of this sort of thing, thinking

nothing of it. She also won't listen to me about the Armour and brushes off

anything that I say about thyroid problems, so I'm leaving well enough alone

these days. You can't make the horse drink.

Re: going to ophthalmologist

> :

> Has anyone investigated a correlation between symptoms

> attributed to the thyroid condition and similar

> symptoms which the cataract sufferer experiences?

> Maybe there's a mistaken identity of " thyroid-related "

> symptoms, which may actually be incipient cataract

> damage to the eye lens. Especially in view of the

> 300% or more increase in UV rays striking the earth's

> surface in the past couple of decades. Some may be

> more sensitive than others to these increased UV

> levels - especially those of us with thyroid disease.

> (Wear your sunglasses !). Any thoughts?

> - Joni