shocks/ vitamin d deficency

I pray someone out there is having the same symptoms as i.  I have recently had my thyroid removed.  I was hopeing after that my shocking symptoms would be resolved.  Unfortunatly, they are still here.   I was started on vitamin d.  I thought oboy 3 days and counting and no shocking!  Man was i upset when they came back today.   I have no idea what this is .   I had an mra done. thinking I had multiple sclerosis.   It came up normal.  I was put on vitamin D by a cardiologist, not that i don't need it.  But he thought it would resolve the shocking feelings.. after 3 days i am now starting the sensations again.  

   If there is anyone experiencing this strange sensation,  it seems to be mostly in my hands head and occasionally into my legs and toes.   but mostly it stays up on the uppper portions of my anatomy.  my eyes are also involved.  split second shocks!!!! over and over again.

   Please respond,  i need all the help i can get. I just want to know the cause!!!!!

 

 

gonuts said...
I pray someone out there is having the same symptoms as i.  I have recently had my thyroid removed.  I was hopeing after that my shocking symptoms would be resolved.  Unfortunatly, they are still here.   I was started on vitamin d.  I thought oboy 3 days and counting and no shocking!  Man was i upset when they came back today.   I have no idea what this is .   I had an mra done. thinking I had multiple sclerosis.   It came up normal.  I was put on vitamin D by a cardiologist, not that i don't need it.  But he thought it would resolve the shocking feelings.. after 3 days i am now starting the sensations again.  

   If there is anyone experiencing this strange sensation,  it seems to be mostly in my hands head and occasionally into my legs and toes.   but mostly it stays up on the uppper portions of my anatomy.  my eyes are also involved.  split second shocks!!!! over and over again.

   Please respond,  i need all the help i can get. I just want to know the cause!!!!!

 

 

As has already been noted, we can't diagnose here.  Here are some random thoughts, which you need to take to your doctor and ask about:

1. Thyroid problems can cause a lot of issues to go wrong in your body. Are you on thyroid replacement medications?

2. I don't know that vitamin D -- a shortage of it or taking it -- will make a great deal of difference, particularly that quickly (you keep mentioning "3 days"). Lots of medications take awhile to build up in the body, and 3 days isn't enough time for almost ANYTHING to be significant enough to make a difference.

3. MRA's are NOT used as a diagnostic tool in MS.  MRI's are.  Are you sure you had an MRA -- Magnetic Resonance Angiography, or did you have an MRI -- Magnetic Resonance Imaging?  They sound alike, and in many ways are alike, but an MRA looks for different issues than an MRI.

4. You need to talk again to the cardiologist and see why he thinks taking Vitamin D will help reduce the shocking sensation.  It doesn't sound a lot like the shocking sensation that people with MS have -- L'Hermittes -- but then,

no one here is a doctor, and we obviously can't begin to tell you what might be going on. It does sound quite uncomfortable. A call to your doctor(s) tomorrow is probably in order.

I'm a bit confused as to how you went from thyroid to cardio doctor. At any rate i do have shocking sensations that are in the spine and neck. It is termed as uppity mentioned. Mine however isn't brought on by my own tilting of my neck or at least i cant simply bend my head down and make it happen. It may be slightly bent when it occurs. Either way yours in in several areas and even though it largely stays in upper its also went to lower part of your body if I read you correctly.


I am vitamin D deficient. Moderately so..borderline severe. It can take up to 7 months for a person to notice any difference. This all depends upon how severe and how aggressively its treated along with how early its detected.

I do not wish to mislead you, i have never heard of it having anything to do with shocking sensations at all!
Bone pain? yes, some say it helps sleep . Some doctors feel that it mimmicks fibro (muscle twitches and pain)...
Shocking sensations that come and go? no.

I would contact my GP who should have your entire history to include thyroid/surgery/medicine/results of mri<lets hope, and your cardiolgists report. Let your Gp explain to you what they feel they are dealing with. If they dont know as it appears might be the case then you might wish to allow your Gp to run some blood tests to rule out some things (there are a vast amount of contions that can cause all kinds of odd sensations) and your gp might discover it or through speaking with your other doctors' might better understand what the problem is.

If your bloodwork comes back ok, and they feel your thyroid is in no way causing this, then you as a patient do what a patient does. Go back to your Gp and have him/her refer you for further testing that might reveal the problem. That might include Mri/evoked potentials/lumbar puncture.

Take comfort in this: I feel vibrations, yes they are very scary. The pain isnt the problem but the unreal feeling that we as humans don't expect to feel is frightening. I'm sure there is an explanation for whats causing yours and perhaps there is something about vitamin D type of things i havent been told?


Either way it can take up to 7 months of vitamin d to see results in some. Some feel them alot sooner.

Call your General Practitioner and ask what to do from here, as they've all stated above we can't diagnose you and I'm not at all certain your doctors are sure where the shocks are coming from. They will find out. Just be persistent and proactive about your body. Your not alone..others feel shocking sensations too.


thanks

kiera

thank you for your response. I just had my thyroid out last week and the cardiologist was in the hospital due to the fact i had some chest discomfort and he brought up the vit d for the shocks.? He really seemed as though he believed in this. I am taking 2000 iu's a day. I am so glad you said it takes that long, because now i still have some hope to look forward to . thank you again!!!! gonuts

wanting you to know how wonderful you are.  Also, i want you to know my thyroid levels were always in the norm range.  If I hadn't had a cervical spine injury the only way i would have know was to wait longer for the nodules to grow more.  that could have taken some time.   I also hope you find your answers as well.

hi uppitycats,

 yes that is the one reason that i had the thyroid taken out.  they saw it in my mri.  my neuroligist is aware of the shocking and he wanted me to have the mri to see how the cerivical looked since my surgery 4 yrs ago.  he couldn't see anything but had to deal with the thyroid first.   i am in the healing stage of that surgery now.  Only a week and a half into recovery.  So after that, I am suppose to have a ct scan done to be sure my neurologist didn't miss anything from the mri. Also, my gp and endrocronologist is following up with everything else (vit d and calcium supplememt and my lovothyroxine supplement) 

  it is just so bad sometimes the shocks i feel, like my head is weak and i seem to get nausia from it.   it is somewhat like a hangover, if you have ever had one.  That is the only way to describe the sick feeling part of it.   the rest is just the imbalance of it and the steam sound it makes in my head for that second at a time.

   Thanks for your imput.  Your are all wonderful....gonuts