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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.
Many of the symptoms you speak of can be contributed to or be made worse by VDD (vitamin D def.)
One of my worse problems was, like you, a severe off balance feeling. I felt like I had a constant rocking feeling or like I had drank too much. My numbers have been up for almost a year now. The symptom of off balance is much better, but unfortunetely not gone. So there must be another cause, but like you I have been tested and scanned with no real answer.
A place to look at what others have listed as their symptoms upon diagnosis is in this group somewhere. It will give you a great list.
There is a long road ahead of you to get your levels back up and to stay up. You will see most of the answers and postings on levels in the North American form of ng/ml instead of the nmol/L.
3000iu of OTC Vitamin D is a good start, however it may take more to get you to optimum ranges. I currently take 5,000iu daily and will have to for the rest of my life if I want to maintain a good result.
Keep your chin up and know that you are not alone.
One of my worse problems was, like you, a severe off balance feeling. I felt like I had a constant rocking feeling or like I had drank too much. My numbers have been up for almost a year now. The symptom of off balance is much better, but unfortunetely not gone. So there must be another cause, but like you I have been tested and scanned with no real answer.
A place to look at what others have listed as their symptoms upon diagnosis is in this group somewhere. It will give you a great list.
There is a long road ahead of you to get your levels back up and to stay up. You will see most of the answers and postings on levels in the North American form of ng/ml instead of the nmol/L.
3000iu of OTC Vitamin D is a good start, however it may take more to get you to optimum ranges. I currently take 5,000iu daily and will have to for the rest of my life if I want to maintain a good result.
Keep your chin up and know that you are not alone.
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