Back in mar. '06 I was diagnosed with
optic neuritis in both eyes. I had an
mri, but nothing was apparent except the
radiologist reported noted a possibility
of acute sinusities (i didn't find this
out until june '06). I've been through
steroid iv and oral treatments and have
been well (with my vision returning
completely) until two months later.
In june '06 I was diagnosed with
retrobulbar optic neuritis in my left eye
(with 5% vision loss). After going
through the steroid treatments, again, the
pain has reoccurred, again--to no
assistance from steroids nor the pain
killers. I have no symptoms of ms or
glaucoma (after several trips back and
forth to the opthamologist and
neurologist). I have recently seen an ent
(ear, nose, and throat doctor) as soon as
I found out what my mri report said. He
ordered a ct-scan and am waiting for that
report. I have no other health problems,
no history in my family of diseases that
are related to this problem.
Now, back in january and february I did
have two colds--the one in february lasted
longer than a week. Since then, I haven't
been able to breathe comfortable through
my left sinus. Could there be a possible
infection?
Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 6 Location: west of scotland
Optic Neuritis Posted: 06-19-06 14:10pm
I can't really help with your specific
problem, but I do know a bit about what
you're going through as I had unexplained
optic neuritis last year, in my left eye.
It was in october, and I would say I have
just about fully recovered. I say just
about because sometimes I still get pain
in that eye and i've had a few days where
the pain really reminds me of the type of
pain when you have on (not intense and
more like a pressure). Obviously this
causes me panic when I think I may be
getting it again as they do test you for
ms on a second occurence in my health care
area.
I have my last (hopefully) appointment mid
july at the opthalmologist in the
hospital, and I hope to be 'signed off'
that day.
I can also relate to the sinusitis thing,
as that's what the hospital tried to tell
me I may have, I went to the doctor who
gave me antibiotics just in case, but he
was reluctant to believe it was the cause
- especially since I wansn't experiencing
the type of pain you would get with
sinusitis.
Mine has been put down to a virus I think,
and I just have to hope there's no
recurrence of it.
Well my ent doctor has given me the
"there's nothing wrong with your sinuses",
so i'm off to find an nueroopthamologist
in my area.
I do know that the pain gets worse my neck
is out of alignments (that's when I see my
chiropractor), and i'm familiar what
nerves control the face from the brain
stem. I just hope that the
nueroopthamologist will be able to give me
some news when I see him/her. I do hope
that it is nothing more than viral.
Now how long have you had your neuritis
before things started to pick up for you?
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lesley74
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Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 6 Location: west of scotland
On Posted: 06-19-06 18:11pm
I had it bad for just about a week, then I
could see it beginning to clear. By that
I mean I was almost completely blind in
that eye for about 5 or 6 days. Quite
worrying! Then my vision came back from
the top, and it was like a cloud dropping
a little each day. Then my colours and
contrast were out, but they got back to
near normal within the month. I have to
say that the pain (although mild) lasted a
bit longer, and as I said I still have
times when I think it might be coming
back. I took it last october.
Do you realise it's very unusual to take
on in both eyes at once. I don't know if
that maybe suggests a cause other than ms.
Also I hope you realise that mris aren't
100% conclusive, but at the end of the
day, you really just have to recover from
your on, hope that it doesn't happen
again, and if it does then you just have
to overcome that and any other problems
you may have. If you think about it -
it's not really the worst thing you could
have....Although you'd rather be totally
healthy.
Hope you're feeling better and more
settled about it all soon. :)
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