Lack of balance/ tinnitus and seizures

[AlohaBird]

I've always enjoyed a good whodunnit mystery.

I'm also interested in the origins of the term Vestibular Disfunction you mentioned above from the eye doctor.

In a house the vestibule is the doorway, the entrance. I guess in the house of your brain, the vestibules are primarily the eyes and the ears. So if the message your brain is getting from one vestibule doesn't line up with what it is getting from another vestibule, like the soundtrack of a movie being off from the picture, that could be very confusing to your brain. (In your case it is the picture and the motion sensor tracks being "off")

 

[Bidwell]

You are absolutely right. I think it is confusing to everyone, including the insurance carriers, I bet. I have believed, having been taught that way in a bygone era, that the eyes are the only part of the brain that meets the external world. The emphasis was on the idea that the eyes were the unprotected part of the brain. When I go to the eye doctor I am always surprised that when the eye doctors talk Function they are talking something very different and more limited than what I have in mind. I think there may be real consequences to people that this separation is made.

 

[Bidwell]

I got sidetracked from "vestibular disfunction." These vestibules are pretty complicated and I am sliding into cynicism about the whole idea of vestibular disfunction[though not that something could be seriously amiss]. This may be too difficult a topic for this evening!

 

[MMRocks]

I've had tinnitus for years, also lack of balance. I've seen hearing specialists, I know all about the causes and reasons for, etc.

2 months ago I got diagnosed with Pernicious Anemia- low B12. I got b12 shots, and my tinnitus went away. So did my hearing sensitivity, I can go into grocery stores now. My balance issues gone, so's the dizziness and foot cramps.

 

[AlohaBird]

2 months ago I got diagnosed with Pernicious Anemia- low B12. I got b12 shots, and my tinnitus went away. So did my hearing sensitivity, I can go into grocery stores now. My balance issues gone, so's the dizziness and foot cramps.

That's interesting. My friend and chiropractor back in San Diego, one of the healthiest people I know as far as diet and exercise go, was also recently diagnosed with a B-12 deficiency. She was also diagnosed with Celiac disease which the doctor thinks may have been the origin of the problem. She said that it felt like a fog lifting that had been there so long she didn't really notice it. She was having tingling and numbness in her feet and balance issues (which is what caused her to seek help in the first place). And this is a woman who is in shape, surfs daily and is not a nanogram overweight.
Because she is a chiropractor, she does her own injections now too.

 

[MMRocks]

...was also recently diagnosed with a B-12 deficiency. She was also diagnosed with Celiac disease which the doctor thinks may have been the origin of the problem.

Very likely the Celiac was the origin, as undiagnosed celiac will wreck the gut. Gut health is everything. B12 is absorbed and distributed in the gut; k2 is manufactured in the gut. Either one of those goes off it tips the other, you get a domino effect.

My everything bad went away with these shots. Horrid thoughts, paranoia, anxiety attacks, shortness of breath, trouble swallowing- all gone. That's why I'm in here singing the praises!

 

[AlohaBird]

It's interesting how it could happen to anyone also. People might say you were on a bunch of meds, had some weight to lose, smoked, had seizures, etc. so it's not surprising that you had some nutritional deficiencies. And then there is my chiropractor friend, working out all the time, eating all organic paleo everything. And both of you ended up with a B-12 issue. She said she had also been feeling depressed for a while without realizing it.

Bidwell, MMRocks could be onto something for you here, at least a piece of the puzzle. I know B-12 deficiencies are much more common in older folks due to decreasing absorption.

You would both like Dr Perlmutter's new book Brain Maker. (He's the neurologist/nutritionist who wrote Grain Brain a few years back.

The new book is focusing on the gut-brain connection. We ignore what goes on in the gut (the second brain) at the peril of the health of the skull brain.