Thyroid hormone and neuropathy

[selenabaroni]

I am wondering I have had sensori motor neuropathy for over 2 years my TSH at last check was 1.7 and my T4 was .86

my thyroglobulin was 3

this was all in 2015 and no one has checked them since. could these levels cause neuropathy

[Marz]

Do you know your B12 level ? If low in range then the symptoms can present as neurological.

[SlowDragon Administrator]

What's your vitamin D level like?

Low vitamin D can upset vitamin B levels

See this article how they interact in the gut - especially if you have an autoimmune disease

drgominak.com/vitamin-d-hor...

Have you been tested for Hashimotos? High Thyroid antibodies

[HLAB35 in reply to SlowDragon]

Thanks for posting this SlowDragon...really interesting link. I'm going to get my vit D levels tested again asap as I suspect this may be behind my less than restorative sleep I've been experiencing in the last few months.. I'm thinking of taking B5 in addition to my normal B supplement as I suspect my adrenals are pretty weak (again) and B5, by all accounts seems to be what I'm lacking (supplemental niacin in the evening has been 'ok' but I suspect it's dealing with symptoms rather than an actual cause) ...

The way this all ties in with the time of year when our vit D levels are likely to be low anyway does make a lot of sense... I got by on 5,000 iu for several months initially (when I was low before) and tapered down to 1,000 - I have vit K2 and I've not had any recent problems with my back, so we all assumed levels were ok, but now, I realise that vit d does so much more than help our bones.

[Daisy77 in reply to SlowDragon]

Fascinating article, thanks for posting.

[Rush2112]

I have neropathy as well the neurolgist said its thyroid linked endo says not so not sure if they don't know or don't care I have hyper in remision

There has been some improvement with sublingual

B12 and vit d but it's taken over a year to show any substantial improvement still have intense burning in hands and feet at night

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to Rush2112]

I had "burning" feet (and hands & arms at times) & dizzy about a month after starting relatively high dose vitamin D (on endos suggestion)

I found this article by Dr Gominack

So I tried adding good vitamin B complex - it really helped & quite quickly too. I needed B12 as well for a month or so - then phased that out. I still take the B complex

I have Hashimotos & gastroenterologist diagnosed poor gut function/gluten intolerance

[dtate2016 in reply to SlowDragon]

Could you share the article by Dr Gominack?

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to dtate2016]

See my first reply in this post - the link is there

[Rush2112 in reply to SlowDragon]

Thanks slow dragon vert interesting

I kind of new when I first took 12 that b vist had to be balanced and did take multi vit. For first month did not know vit d could effect it think i will get a good b multi vit and see if that helps burning