Can Hashimoto's thyroiditis cause vertigo?

[helvella]

We have seen many posts here from or about people who have various balance issues. Recognition of an association between balance and thyroid is a step towards better understanding (even if not always the cause).

Can Hashimoto's thyroiditis cause vertigo? [Czy choroba Hashimoto może być przyczyną zawrotów głowy?]

Katarzyna A. Miśkiewicz-Orczyk, Grażyna Lisowska, Dariusz Kajdaniuk, Matuesz Wojtulek

DOI: 10.5603/EP.a2019.0069

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Endokrynologia Polska 2020;71(1):76-86.

Abstract

Vertigo and balance disorders are common symptoms reported by approximately 15–20% of the adult population worldwide. For many years thyroid diseases have been suspected as the cause of vertigo by ENT physicians. Almost every patient hospitalised due to severe vertigo is investigated for thyroid disease as a suspected cause of acute vestibulopathy. The issue presented in this paper is related to a difficult and poorly understood relationship between autoimmune thyroid disease and peripheral vertigo.

Keywords

vertigo; Hashimoto’s thyroiditis; benign paroxysmal positional vertigo; Meniere’s disease

Full paper freely available here:

journals.viamedica.pl/endok...

[stiltzski]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting. I developed vertigo around the time of the menopause and thought that was what had caused it, but, thinking back, it was also at the time that I started my thyroid symptoms. Never connected the two!

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to stiltzski]

And why would you?

We can be pretty sure that few medically trained people would consider it far enough to say or do anything.

[nightingale-56]

I had vertigo after I had been left untreated after a sub-total thyroidectomy for 19 years. Levothyrxine was started and recovery came within 3 months.

[Hidden]

"Can Hashimoto's thyroiditis cause vertigo".

Is there any physical symptom that can NOT be caused by Hashimotos? That's the question! Though some are more common/typical than others.

[TSH110 in reply to Hidden]

Ha ha sometimes I think I’ve had them all! I felt rather unsteady on my pins and had a few episodes of syncope prior to treatment but vertigo might be one that escaped me!