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Can Low Vit D cause this?
Hello. I am in my early thirties, female and I have been having these symptoms for about 3 months now.
I feel incredible off balance. I feel like my head is swaying, like as if my head weighs a lot and I can't balance the weight of it. I sway, and I stumble and I can't go on with anything in my life. With this, I have had panic attacks, high anxiety and light headedness at the same time. I have been to doctors and my blood pressure is low. I have never had a blood pressure problem before until this started happening. He said that low BP can cause the off balance feeling, so he ordered blood tests which were all normal, But for a slight elevation in Iron. In this time I have also had an MRI of the brain which showed normal. Finally I asked for more blood testing and discovered that I have a low Vit D level of 11nmol/L and have been put on supplements of 3000IU per day. Doc said to come back in 3 months to test again.
What worried me is that he said that low Vit D can not cause dizziness or off balance. (The room inst spinning for me, its more like I am spinning) He thinks it's the inner ear and that I should see a neurologist. I did see a neurologist who did some reaction and reflex tests on me and nothing more, said I was fine. There was no testing done on my ears.
What I want to know, in your opinions, does Low Vit D cause:
- Severe Off balance (my main problem)
- Fatigue
- Eye tiredness (when reading from computer, concentrating on close up objects in detail and wearing glasses which I have to)
Those are the main. I also have symptoms which more closely relate to Vit D such as:
- Nerve like spasms in my right wrist and elbow
- Muscular pain
- Tenderness in joints and muscles
- Random stabs of pain in parts of my body
- Depression and anxiety.
Other symptoms are:
- I get cold a lot.
- Severe constipation
- Insomnia
- convulsions upon trying to fall asleep.
- Many more.
But the main thing I want to know is.. could Vit D be causing this off balance thing because I can';t do anything at all, it completely disables me, and it doesn't change, its constant, and gets even worse when I eat, drink, anything seem to make it worse, any little thing.
Thank so much for reading, I have been crying for days and it was good to talk about it somewhere, no one really understand just how bad it feels.
I feel incredible off balance. I feel like my head is swaying, like as if my head weighs a lot and I can't balance the weight of it. I sway, and I stumble and I can't go on with anything in my life. With this, I have had panic attacks, high anxiety and light headedness at the same time. I have been to doctors and my blood pressure is low. I have never had a blood pressure problem before until this started happening. He said that low BP can cause the off balance feeling, so he ordered blood tests which were all normal, But for a slight elevation in Iron. In this time I have also had an MRI of the brain which showed normal. Finally I asked for more blood testing and discovered that I have a low Vit D level of 11nmol/L and have been put on supplements of 3000IU per day. Doc said to come back in 3 months to test again.
What worried me is that he said that low Vit D can not cause dizziness or off balance. (The room inst spinning for me, its more like I am spinning) He thinks it's the inner ear and that I should see a neurologist. I did see a neurologist who did some reaction and reflex tests on me and nothing more, said I was fine. There was no testing done on my ears.
What I want to know, in your opinions, does Low Vit D cause:
- Severe Off balance (my main problem)
- Fatigue
- Eye tiredness (when reading from computer, concentrating on close up objects in detail and wearing glasses which I have to)
Those are the main. I also have symptoms which more closely relate to Vit D such as:
- Nerve like spasms in my right wrist and elbow
- Muscular pain
- Tenderness in joints and muscles
- Random stabs of pain in parts of my body
- Depression and anxiety.
Other symptoms are:
- I get cold a lot.
- Severe constipation
- Insomnia
- convulsions upon trying to fall asleep.
- Many more.
But the main thing I want to know is.. could Vit D be causing this off balance thing because I can';t do anything at all, it completely disables me, and it doesn't change, its constant, and gets even worse when I eat, drink, anything seem to make it worse, any little thing.
Thank so much for reading, I have been crying for days and it was good to talk about it somewhere, no one really understand just how bad it feels.
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Definitely have the swaying feeling - back and forth like on a boat or something, and I have had the severe arms/legs soreness, restless leg feeling, severe fatigue, headaches, and shortness of breath when climbing stairs. I've always been really active and eat healthy ... but I have an extremely low ferritin level ... at a 6 ... and thus a severe iron deficiency. Oral iron has helped mitigate some of those symptoms, but I have only been taking it a week so far. All those symptoms (the ones I listed, not the Vit D ones, like twitching etc) are CLASSIC iron deficiency. Unfortunately, doctors usually test for anemia (hemoglobin/hematocrit) and rule out an iron deficiency that way without testing ferritin. I am not anemic (have normal hemoglobin/hematocrit) just SEVERELY iron deficient (uber low ferritin). An iron deficiency is hastened by eating a lot of calcium ... calcium prevents the absorption of iron. I don't eat much red meat and started to eat a lot more dairy and slowly developed all kinds of symptoms. It sounds like you probably have low Vit D AND low ferritin. Stupid doctors never check ferritin unless you make them! And to think they are testing for brain problems when it could just simply be those two things. If you want some good info on classic iron deficiency symptoms, I liked this message board (http://www.************.com/boards/dizziness-vertigo/641448-low-ferritin-vertigo-other-fun-things.html) and loved this website (http://ironmatters.com/) You should totally check out both! I am in my 20's, healthy, and active, and having that kind of fatigue/swaying/muscle weakness/shortness of breath is very frustrating and hard to explain to other people how it has dominated my life this year. Yes, and get your ferritin levels checked!!!! It could certainly be caused by other things, but how said if it is a simple mineral imbalance in your body that is so easily remedied, to live with that!!! I wouldn't have gotten diagnosed if I hadn't done my own research and made them test me for iron/ferritin. I'm on oral iron now and some things improved right away, but still a long battle ahead yet I think to get iron stores back up.
One thing that I would suggest is to have your ferritin level checked, if you haven't already. A lot of the symptoms you are talking about are not only a part of Vitamin D Def, but Iron def as well. I myself was diagnosed as being hypothyroid shortly after I finished the high dose prescription of vitamin d for 12 weeks. Fast forward to 2 years later and I cannot tolerate any thyroid hormones even at the lowest dose (15 mg). I am not trying to stop the thyroid medicine with my docs help because they don't believe I have a thyroid issue. What a freaking rollercoaster. Typically to feel good you need to have a vitamin D level around 50 and a ferritin level above 60. Ferritin is one of the most overlooked tests. Docs tend to go with the, "Well it's within normal range" thing and not knowing optimal vs. normal. Good luck!!
Are there any doctors reading this forum? With most or all of us having the same type of syptoms you would think they would say 'hey, maybe there is more to VIT D deficiency" and research and get the word out about it. Right now I'm afraid to tell others how I'm feeling because the doctor's don't seem to understand it themselfs so how can I convince others that it is all related to a Vitamin Deficiency. I can't just tell my boss I do not have the energy to do certain things without a doctor saying that it is so, what's a person to do, I need my job.
Btw....mine started suddenly August 2012...not a second of relief since then....only positive tests were Epstein Barr (from mono) low sodium (for about 4 months) and the vit d level of ten....nothing has helped
Omg....your going through exactly what I am....I am 27 year old active registered nurse and I cannot do my career anymore because off this disabling off balance feeling....just got vit d checked....it was ten......so im taking supplements. Please keep me posted of anything you find! I'm having an MRI of my pituitary next week.
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