Eye issues

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I would make my way immediately to CAB and ask them what your rights are - this is ridiculous, glasses that are of no use to you and he says that this is what you need get on with it - stupid man.

No matter the reason for your eye problems, they have to supply you with goods fit for the purpose and, if you cannot see out of them, they are certainly not that. CAB or Trading Standards is who you need to contact.

Luv nne

So I now have two pairs of glasses sitting in a case doing diddly squat.

I have a so called lazy eye and when I put my new glasses on it kind of

knocks my good eye out. Hard to explain really.

So I'd like to know if anyone on here is hypothyroid and what eye

issues they have with it.

The more info I have the more at war I can go with the opticain lol.

Messages are not a substitute for professional medical advice. Always consult

with a suitably qualified practitioner before changing medication.

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Hi My husband had a similar problem, we went to ****savers they were a lot cheaper than the previous place but his new glasses were giving him headaches. When he went back and had his eyes retested they found the glasses were not the right prescription. Give them their due they did change them. I felt a bit mean for the two weeks I kept telling him to persever he just had to get used to them though. LOL. Caroline So I now have two pairs of

glasses sitting in a case doing diddly squat.I have a so called lazy eye and when I put my new glasses on it kind of knocks my good eye out. Hard to explain really.So I'd like to know if anyone on here is hypothyroid and what eye issues they have with it.The more info I have the more at war I can go with the opticain lol.Messages are not a substitute for professional medical advice. Always consult with a suitably qualified practitioner before changing medication.

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Take them to another Opticians, somewhere like Boots and ask them if they can check that these glasses are for YOUR prescription and not somebody else's. They will be able to tell you whether he has made them up correctly or not. If not, you can then go ahead and report him to the authorities. For an optician to have never heard of thyroid eye disease is pretty terrifying. I wouldn't trust him one jot.

Luv - Sheila

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I've just had my eyes tested and picked up my new glasses, but I can't see through them correctly. The optician has told me its what my eyes need and he isn't prepared to do anything esle. Course me and my big mouth bought up a thyroid question, can hypothyroid affect the eyes. To which he waved his arms in the air and said he had never heard anything so obsured in his life!So I now have two pairs of glasses sitting in a case doing diddly squat.I have a so called lazy eye and when I put my new glasses on it kind of knocks my good eye out. Hard to explain really.So I'd like to know if anyone on here is hypothyroid and what eye issues they have with it.The more info I have the more at war I can go with the opticain lol.

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> I've just had my eyes tested and picked up my new glasses, but I

can't

> see through them correctly. The optician has told me its what my

eyes

> need and he isn't prepared to do anything esle.

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> So I'd like to know if anyone on here is hypothyroid and what eye

> issues they have with it.

> The more info I have the more at war I can go with the opticain

lol.

Hi

I have had similar problems but my optician has been brilliant, even

changing glasses where necessary.

My visual acuity changed so much week to week that it was difficult

to get a prescription that worked consistently. Just this last week

I'm having a spell where if I wear the glasses I usually wear for

computer work, I can't see! And whereas I usually can't see anything

close up with my contact lens in, this week I can.

Things were so bad at one point that I was told to go and buy a pair

of those cheapo supermarket brand glasses in what was thought to be

the corrct prescription before making another expensive mistake. I

tried them out for a while and then had a proper pair of glasses

made up when we thought it would be fairly safe to go with that

prescription.

I asked Dr Peatfield about it when I last saw him and he said that

thyroid affects the fluid levels in the eye and when you find your

correct level of thyroid supplementation the problem usually sorts

itself out.

Even my optician, before he, or I for that matter, knew anything

about my thyroid issues, said that the visual changes were possibly

due to hormones.

I also have problems with gritty, sore eyes which from time to time

are very red and bloodshot, usually one at a time rather than both

together. The optician told me to come in to see him without an

appointment on a " bad eye day " , in order to be able to try to

understand what was going on, while it was going on. I think that's

the sort of optician you want to be dealing with, not one who says

he isn't prepared to do anything else to help.

Obviously you need to establish whether your present problem is like

the one I have, or whether the optician has made a mistake in your

prescription.

Good luck in your battle with him. Hope you win the war! Glasses

aren't cheap nowadays, especially when you can't use them!

.

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Hi

My Boots optician believes that hypothyroidism can affect the eyes and

actually told me to see a doctor about the deterioration in my

eyesight and change in shape in my eyeball. Alas, I am currently under

an endocrinologist who disagrees with the optician on this point,

therefore my eyesight is doomed to worsen until my TSH goes over 10 at

which point I will be declared hypothyroid!

My eyes fail to lubricate properly and feel quite gritty unless I use

eyedrops. A lot of a sudden loss in my vision was thankfully

reversible. My eyes had become so dry that the cornea had got

sratched and infected, causing blurred vision.

But, as I am not officially hypothyroid, I don't know if this will

help you much. My mother (aged in her mid 60s), IS officially

hypothyroid and also has the dry eye issue. She finds that her

eyesight worsens when her hypo symptoms worsen - sometimes requiring a

new glasses prescription.

Tracey

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Forgot to add that I suffer from a weird sort of fluid retention on

occasions. It causes my eyeballs to hurt and feel quite hard. They

don't look any different but they feel like they are being pushed out

of the sockets - a horrible sensation.

The endo says this is not a symptom of hypothyroidism as I am not

hypothyroid. Love to know what it is and how to ease it though!

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Hi ,

I think that you need a new optician! Mine knows that thyroid

affects the eyes- not just graves disease. Try a new one than compare the

prescriptions. Then if they are different you have a cast iron basis for

complaint.

I had an eye test just before changing to Armour from T4 and found that I

too, could not use my new glasses. I explained the change of treatment- they

gave me a retest and found that my eyes had returned to the state of 2 years

previous and remained so for the next 3 years.

eye issues

I've just had my eyes tested and picked up my new glasses, but I can't

see through them correctly. The optician has told me its what my eyes

need and he isn't prepared to do anything esle. Course me and my big

mouth bought up a thyroid question, can hypothyroid affect the eyes.

To which he waved his arms in the air and said he had never heard

anything so obsured in his life!

So I now have two pairs of glasses sitting in a case doing diddly squat.

I have a so called lazy eye and when I put my new glasses on it kind of

knocks my good eye out. Hard to explain really.

So I'd like to know if anyone on here is hypothyroid and what eye

issues they have with it.

The more info I have the more at war I can go with the opticain lol.

Messages are not a substitute for professional medical advice. Always

consult with a suitably qualified practitioner before changing medication.

[Guest guest]

, No I didn't actually have corneal erosion. Mine was simply my eyes stopped lubricating so there were no tears to protect the surface. A simple matter, easily remedied. But it just goes to show how important it is to keep the eyes moist. , fortunately I don't have glaucoma. My eye pressure has been normal when tested. Interestingly my mum had all manner of visual problems before she was diagnosed as hypothyroid and these have greatly improved on thyroxine. She'd even developed tunnel vision temporarily at one stage and had to stop driving for a while - not too clever as she was working as a chauffeur at the time! Tracey

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> No I didn't actually have corneal erosion. Mine was simply my eyes

stopped lubricating so there were no tears to protect the surface. A

simple matter, easily remedied. But it just goes to show how important

it is to keep the eyes moist.

Thanks Tracey. I'm pretty sure I was told to use eye drops but never

got round to doing it. Smack on the hand! I'm going to get some

tomorrow.

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Yes it is a sympton of hypo!! AND you need to be treated for the

pressure build up in your eyes NOW!!!! This sort of thing is what

causes Glaucoma. Suggest you need Xalatan eyedrops or something

similar to reduce the pressure BEFORE YOU LOSE YOUR SIGHT!!!!!

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In reference to my last reply, please go and see a decent optician!!

What is happening is that the fluid that normally flows out of the

inside of your eyeball, isn't.

This is how you get Glaucoma, the pressure builds up on the optic nerve

and strangles it, for want of a better description!! You need to get

proper treatment befor you lose your sight. It may take years as the

problem seems to come and go, but without treatment it WILL happen!!

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Hi there glynisrose Can you tell me is this the eye pain I suffer from on and off. Don't scare me. I thought it was just because I was undertreated for hypo.t and when on the correct dose it would settle. My eyes ache most of the time. Carol X Re: eye issues

In reference to my last reply, please go and see a decent optician!!

What is happening is that the fluid that normally flows out of the

inside of your eyeball, isn't.

This is how you get Glaucoma, the pressure builds up on the optic nerve

and strangles it, for want of a better description! ! You need to get

proper treatment befor you lose your sight. It may take years as the

problem seems to come and go, but without treatment it WILL happen!!

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just an aside really - on the issue of how expensive specs are - check out goggles4you.com - they are incredible cheap - frameless for £15 - they tell you how to fill in your measurements and your prescription and they arrive in a week or so. has had 2 pairs so far and they are fine - cheap enough to have a few pairs!

Gill

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Hi Girls,

Don't mess with your eyes ladies, when in doubt get a second opinion

PLEASE!!!

In this month's edition of the Readers Digest they investigated eye

examinations and found that many Opticians fail to find glaucoma in

patients because there's no clear cut tests, it's putting symptoms

and results together and comparing previous test results that show

up this problem. Glaucoma can destroy your sight rapidly if it

isn't treated. Also, if you are on steroids you need to be tested

more often because of the risk of both glaucoma and cataracts, which

incidentally ARE also connected to hypothyroidism.

Dry eye or red eye is another condition related to hypothyroidism

and also left untreated can cause significant damage to the surface

of the eye. If enough scarring occurs you can suffer considerably

reduced vision.

Sorry to scare you all but eyes are so very important.

Luv Bella xx

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> Hi there glynisrose

> Can you tell me is this the eye pain I suffer from on and off.

Don't scare me. I thought it was just because I was undertreated for

hypo.t and when on the correct dose it would settle. My eyes ache

most of the time.

>

> Carol

> X

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Thank you so much for this Gill, it costs us £600 when we go for our specs and that is horrendous, this will mean that we can happily buy a couple of pairs each and still have change.

Luv nne

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According to my optician it is a very common problem. What happens is

that the membrane that forms your eyeball hardens slightly, doesn't let

any fluid out so pressure builds up in your eyes.

The specialist at the eye clinic said it is nothing to do with hypo but

he's wrong, being hypo sends your blood pressure up and aggravates the

problem. Using a computer too much can also raise the pressure in the

eyes. (Because we concentrate on the screen and forget to blink!)

Get your eyes tested, make sure they give you a pressure test, even if

the optician says everything is alright you can still ask your doctor

to refer you to an eye clinic. There they will give you a field of

vision test and check the pressure in your eyes with a much more

accurate machine than at the opticians.

The thing is NOT to ignore it, if your eyes ache then you are likely to

have higher pressure in them, if not treated then it puts pressure on

the optic nerve and eventually causes irrepairable damage.

Sorry I don't want to frighten you. I was terrified when it happened

to me, my vision was so blurred that I could not read a book. Luckily

my optician referred me to my GP as the pressure in both my eyes was

too high. I got referred to the eye clinic at the hospital and apart

from one a***hole of a specialist I have had really good treatment. (I

have been to the clinic about a dozen times over the last 7 years)

I have to use eye drops every night and will for the rest of my life

but at least I know that I'm not going to lose my sight to Glaucoma.

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Hi Tracey,

I know what you mean. I have not been diax by my Gp, but I did go and

see Dr Peatfield a few weeks ago who did diax as hypothyroid and has

started me off on vitimins and adrenal support etc and then moving onto

thyroid treatments.

So I'm hoping that in time my eyes will correct themselves. As I feel

that is the worse symptoms of all, if i can see right I can do more

things. I used to do alot of cross stitch which I can't do now. So

when I have worn out shattered days, there isn't much I can do except

sleep.

Has anyone had an improvement with their sight after being treated by

Dr Peatfield.

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We have a specs maker in Keighley. He does nothing else but make up prescription glasses using his frames. We always buy ours from him. We get tested at Boots every time and then take our prescription to him and he makes them up. He has a wide selection of frames and they are mostly £25. I wouldn't dream of going anywhere else.

luv - Sheila

Thank you so much for this Gill, it costs us £600 when we go for our specs and that is horrendous, this will mean that we can happily buy a couple of pairs each and still have change.Luv nne

just an aside really - on the issue of how expensive specs are - check out goggles4you.com - they are incredible cheap - frameless for £15 - they tell

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I have found the best eyedrops are MSM. You can buy them cheaply from here http://www.detoxyourworld.com/acatalog/msm_drops.html. They beat any other drops I have ever tried.

Luv - Sheila

Thanks Tracey. I'm pretty sure I was told to use eye drops but never got round to doing it. Smack on the hand! I'm going to get some tomorrow.

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Hi Carol - once you are on the correct dose of thyroid hormone replacement and your body has settled to that dose, your eye problems will probably go. In the hypothyroid symptoms on our website www.tpa-uk.org.uk, you will see that hypothyroidism can give you Visual disturbances: Poor focusing - Double vision - Dry eyes - Gritty eyes - Blurred vision.

Luv - Sheila

Hi there glynisrose Can you tell me is this the eye pain I suffer from on and off. Don't scare me. I thought it was just because I was undertreated for hypo.t and when on the correct dose it would settle. My eyes ache most of the time.

Carol

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Hi jdn5764, ( do you have a name we can use?)

Straight answer- yes!

My eyes returned to the previous prescription for the next 2 years. I could

not use the new glasses I had prescribed just before I changed treatment as

they we too strong, I had a retest which proved my eyes had improved.

My eyes are tested for glaucoma at every retest.

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Hi Tracey,

So I'm hoping that in time my eyes will correct themselves.

Has anyone had an improvement with their sight after being treated by

Dr Peatfield.

>

Messages are not a substitute for professional medical advice. Always

consult with a suitably qualified practitioner before changing medication.

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A person with an inflamatory disease should have eyes checked every 6 months.

At least thats what all our specialists here in boston say and also at NIH.

Breana has had inflamtion inm her eyes casuing her greta eye pain and has also

been VERY VERY light sensitive.

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A person with an inflamatory disease should have eyes checked every 6 months.

At least thats what all our specialists here in boston say and also at NIH.

Breana has had inflamtion inm her eyes casuing her greta eye pain and has also

been VERY VERY light sensitive.

[Guest guest]

I had severe uveitis of both eyes.  It didn't effect my vision  but I was very

light sensitive and my eyes were so dry I could barely bllink and the dryness

made it difficult to see.  I have been on Restasis eye drops twice daily for a

long time and my uveitis is gone now.  I still use the drops to keep things at

bay, but try not to use them less often.  They are very expensive but, the only

drop that worked for me.  I did try some others. I always called them liquid

gold because they were so expensive.  It worked for me though and my vision has

not been effected.  I think it's important to have your eyes checked with Lyme

every 6 months, just to make sure nothing is going on.  Some of the medications

for Lyme disease often require eye exams because of side effects.  Plaqenil is

one of them.

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Did an ophthalmologist diagnose the uveitis? Is Restasis a prescription or over

the counter med? I don't think my ophthalmologist is familiar with how chronic

Lyme effects vision. In Dec. during routine exam he said my eyes were

fine--which is good news. But he didn't mention returning before my next yearly

exam.

I may try to find another one in my area who has experience with LD.

Thanks

Kim

[ ] Eye issues

I had severe uveitis of both eyes. It didn't effect my vision but I was very

light sensitive and my eyes were so dry I could barely bllink and the dryness

made it difficult to see. I have been on Restasis eye drops twice daily for a

long time and my uveitis is gone now. I still use the drops to keep things at

bay, but try not to use them less often. They are very expensive but, the only

drop that worked for me. I did try some others. I always called them liquid

gold because they were so expensive. It worked for me though and my vision has

not been effected. I think it's important to have your eyes checked with Lyme

every 6 months, just to make sure nothing is going on. Some of the medications

for Lyme disease often require eye exams because of side effects. Plaqenil is

one of them.