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#1066182

My balance has been shot since I found out I have Graves. I had real problems with vertigo during my really hyper periods. I had an attack just two days ago. I am still not in my normal range for TSH since having RAI last May. I hope that some of this balance stuff disappears when I get there. It was like the world was tilted for me too. People would say oh you’re dizzy and I’d say no I have to hold on to things to make sure of where I am in the room. I would walk down the hall and run my knuckle along it as I walked to make sure my legs didn’t feel too wobbly. I called it getting the wobblies. I get it still sometimes when the air pressure goes way down when a storm is coming too.

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[Ski]

#1066183

There is another autoimmune disease that gives a patient vertigo ~ you may want to be tested for that. Once we have one autoimmune disease, we have a slightly higher likelihood of ending up with another.

[ewmb]

#1066184

Do you know a name for that one ? My father had menieres that ended up with him having some of his middle ear removed. He had to learn how to walk all over again. Later in his life he found that he had Graves.

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[Antony]

#1018643

Has anyone else encountered a loss of equilibrium in low or no light? I’d never had this problem before, but encountered it last summer when another doctor told me to (literally) cut my synthroid dose in half because he didn’t like my TSH levels. It wasn’t like feeling dizzy, but rather having my world tilt 45 degrees…the less light, the worse it was; I’d fall over. It hasn’t happened since synthroid got back on track, but I was curious.

[Antony]

#1066185

Ski…What is the name of the other autoimmune disease you mentioned? As I said, I never had another incident of this "tilting" experience, but I’d like to know what you were referring to.
Thanks

[Ski]

#1066186

I was thinking of Meniere’s, but I just looked it up and I apologize, I must correct myself, it is NOT an autoimmune condition. It may not be the cause of your episode, but it is something you could look into ~ the page I’m looking at says there is no conclusive test for it, so it is usually diagnosed only when no other cause can be found.

[Antony]

#1066187

Thanks ” title=”Very Happy” /> I looked up that condition as well as others that are autoimmune diseases. The strange part is that I haven’t had an episode like that since my endo put me back on the synthroid dose I’d been on beforehand. I was so messed up that my tremors actually looked more like seizures; my wife took me to the E.R., but CAT scans, etc came back fine (T4 was through the roof). As I said, no recurrance since then.
Tony

[genuinruby]

#1066188

I ,too, have had some intermitant balance issues in low light. I cannot really pinpoint the "whys’ –but– I have noticed a connection to it happening and having double vision. Which has also been intermittant these past 2 years.

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