Pressure and blurred eye vision and numbness/tingling sensation Left side of face

[Purple_dog]

I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s last year after spending 11 months very ill. While I have gotten use looking out for my symptoms to know when I need to get checked the above is new symptoms I’ve never had before. Has anyone else experienced this with hashimotos? I let my anxiety get the best of me and went to a&e to get get checked as I was experiencing chest pain too. Chest pain is something I suffered with a lot as one of my symptoms but after cutting out gluten wasn’t much of an issue until the yesterday. The hospital ran my bloods and an ecg to check my heart and fortunately that was all ok.

[Marz]

Have just read your post and thread of a year ago. Did you obtain your Thyroid results along with vitamins and minerals ? It was suggested you re-tested VitD after a few months.

Perhaps your B12 is low in range and a result below 500 can be the cause of the symptoms you describe ? So important to obtain results so you can monitor your own health and check what has been missed.

Hope you feel better soon.

[SlowDragon Administrator]

Chest pain can be low iron....very common when hypo

Ask for vitamin D, folate, ferritin and B12 tested

[Newmummy82]

Hi I also have hashimotos and had something similar earlier in the year. Turned out to be TMJ disorder. Do you clench your jaw or grind your teeth at night? Mine caused pressure behind my eyes, and painful sore muscles in my face ( mainly on right side) which would cause tingling and what I interpreted as numbness due to trapped facial nerves.

I sorted it out with botox injections in my jaw which are expensive and need doing every few months but sorted the pain out almost instantly.

[Purple_dog in reply to Newmummy82]

Hi thanks for replying. I know I used to grind my teeth in my sleep but only when I was very tired so I could be again. I have a month old so getting a good night sleep is proving difficult since she likes to wake up middle of the night every 2 hours. Back at the doctors on wednesday for my blood results so I will mention it to him.

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to Purple_dog]

Grinding teeth and TMJ are hypothyroid symptoms

For full Thyroid evaluation you need TSH, FT4 and FT3 plus both TPO and TG thyroid antibodies tested. Also EXTREMELY important to test vitamin D, folate, ferritin and B12

Recommended on here that all thyroid blood tests should ideally be done as early as possible in morning and before eating or drinking anything other than water .

Last dose of Levothyroxine 24 hours prior to blood test. (taking delayed dose immediately after blood draw).

This gives highest TSH, lowest FT4 and most consistent results. (Patient to patient tip, best not mentioned to GP or phlebotomist)

It can take a while for levels of thyroid and vitamins to settle after giving birth

Suggest you wait 6-8 weeks before testing