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Does Thyroid Cause Eye Problems?

Dear Dr. I am suffering from some eye problems which I need to discuss with you and find out the best possible ways to deal with them. Though I have tried earlier also to deal with them but could not find a suitable solution for it. I am trying to renew my efforts for the same problems again as quality of life is decreasing due to vision problems. Currently my age is 27 and here is the result of my eye examination: Aided: Right Eye: 6/6 Left Eye: 6/12 Spectacles Power: Right Eye: +0.25/0.50x130 = 6/6 Left Eye: +1.0/1.25x75 = 6/12 IOP : Right Eye: 15 Left EYE: 16 Diagnosis Right Eye: Refractive error Diagnosis Left Eye: Refractive error with anisometropic amblyopia superior lattice Treatment done: Superior lattice prophylactic laser done. (June 2008) Problems which I face are as follows: 1.     Eye Floaters ( Problem started at the age of 23+ in the year 2008 ) My main problem as of now is eye floaters as I have got my retina checked thoroughly at Shroff Eye Hospital by retina specialists but they say that floaters are in the vitreous jelly of the retina and nothing can be done about it as its physiological not pathological, I had a second opinion too by some other eye doctor and he said the same thing. I see lot many floaters throughout the day which are of black color and white color, they are many in number they keep moving here and there but don’t go away. Its bothering me very badly as they are really very high in number and big in size. Much beyond you can think off. Floaters are of different shapes and size in both the eyes. One big black dot is of same size and shape which keeps moving in my front of my left eye all the time, in which I had Superior lattice prophylactic laser. This dot has appeared in the last one year. Floaters are impossible to ignore in my case as they are just too many and I am finding it hard to learn to live with them, this is what generally most doctor’s advice for it. I am not sure that why they are increasing, but I am sure about one thing that I don’t have a retinal tear or PVD as I have got my retina checked. I feel somewhere that these factors could be responsible because of which I might have developed floaters: 1.     Severe blow on my head as I had fallen down in the year 2008. I also developed temporary hearing loss after which got it restored after medication by ENT surgeon. Though I developed eye floaters a couple of months after that in the same year, not immediately. 2.     Rigorous exercise and weight lifting since 2002. 3.     Consumption of strong acne medicines like Accutane (Istotretonoin), Doxycycline, Azithromycin in 2007-2008-2009 after a gap of every few days & months for prolonged duration which were prescribed by Dermatologists. Though I still have acne but I am not taking any Anti acne medication except few multivitamins. Not sure if multivitamins can worsen eye floaters further. 4.     Severe constipation & poor digestive health from the year 1999 which is being managed by herbal medication, not sure what effect it has on the eyes. 5.     I am also suffering from Hypothyroid which is under control with Thyroxin; though I feel this should not be the cause of floaters but as a doctor you’re a better person to guide on these points. I am not really sure till what extent these problems could be responsible for eye floaters. Can you please provide your valuable comments on these points? My 2nd eye problem is very poor vision in left eye with no binocular vision: I don’t have binocular vision at all though my eyes are not squint and are perfectly aligned cosmetically. When my eyes were tested first time at the age of 12, I was told that my left eye is Amblyopic (Lazy Eye) and I need to try patching for it but the power difference between the good eye and left bad eye is not much. Secondly I had a car accident at the age of 5 and suffered severe injury on the left side of my forehead and the back side of my head .This thing was never mentioned to the Eye Doctor at the time of eye examination that I had a severe head injury at the age of 5 & I don’t remember that whether my both the eyes were fine before the head injury. I can’t feel I use my left eye much unless I close my right eye. Even after closing my right eye I have poor vision in the left eye. But I can very well feel the eye floaters in the left eye as they are Dear Doctor I have a thyroid problem. I have been to few specialists (Endocrinologists,Internal Medicine Doctor) and they all have differnt diagnosis. My thyroid was diagnosed in 2003 when i lost 15 kgs of weight following that I was put on wysolone after which i was put off the medication when my thyroid reports came normal and was on no medication for thyroid till 2010 Feb. It was monitored regularly and it always came to be normal but in march 2010 last year i was tested and first it came mild hyperthyroid just the TSH value varying and after 10 days it was hypothyroid follwing which i was put on thyronorm by the endocrinologist. Some say it s a thyroid fever ( Silent Thyroiditis Post Hypothyroid ) which can last upto 2 years and is curable and some say its Hashimoto Thyroidits Post Hypothyroid which is not curable and Thyroid supplement has to be taken life long. It s causing lot of confusion due to which I am not able to understand what exactly the problem is. I am uploading my Thyroid reports in a excel sheet in the below link where you can click and download all my reports in sequence( Please read the report values with comments from bottom to top so that you have a clear picture about my thyroid history) Thyroid profile , Thyroid antibodies , Thyroid 99 MTC Thyroid Scan. Link is totally safe please click below on the link to see and download my report,Please click on the blue download icon at the bottom once you copy paste and open the link to open/save the excel file: This is my complete thyroid case history in an elaborative format which will help you in understanding it and advising me. Other medical problems(Constipation,Acne,Eye floaters) Also guide me if thyroid can cause other medical problems like the ones which I have currently. Please help so that my anxiety can be releived. Regards, Vishwam
Fri, 28 Feb 2020
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Internal Medicine Specialist 's  Response
Hi,

Yes, it can affect the eye. The eye vision and appearance. Protrusion of the eyes is a common feature of thyroid disease.

Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.

Regards,
Dr. Salah Saad Shoman, Internal Medicine Specialist
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Does Thyroid Cause Eye Problems?

Hi, Yes, it can affect the eye. The eye vision and appearance. Protrusion of the eyes is a common feature of thyroid disease. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further. Regards, Dr. Salah Saad Shoman, Internal Medicine Specialist