Since I found that reading others experiences has been really helpful in accepting my new diagnosis, I figured I would share mine. On September 28th, 2022, I started noticing shadows in my vision, made an eye appt the next day and everything looked great. September 30th, I showed up to my desk job and could not focus because everything was blurry from my right eye. Checked into the ER, did an MRI and was sent on my way with a referral to see a neurologist. On Monday October 3rd, I followed up with my eye doctor who was alarmed by my worse than 20/400 vision in my right eye and an afferent pupillary defect. I was then sent over to the ER for IV Steroids with a diagnosis of Optic Neuritis. After 3 days of high-dose IV steroids I had little improvement in my right eye. I then saw a neurologist who has no answers, gives me a steroid taper, schedules a spinal tap and refers me to a neuro-ophthalmologist. Completed spinal tap results were normal besides showing 8 Oligoclonal bands. When I finally see this fancy eye doctor on October 28th, I have some visual recovery but had no central vision in my right eye (one month after onset of vision issues). They performed many tests and imaging and said there was no inflammation in my optic nerve. She discussed MS, NMO and Leber's but said there wasn't anything more she could do for me and that I needed to talk with a neurologist again. That same day she called back and said that there was inflammation and to not consider the diagnosis' we discussed and just meet with a neurologist. At this point I decided to see a different neurologist for a second opinion. Upon meeting with this neurologist on November 2nd, she wanted to do oral IV steroids to work on the swelling in the optic nerve and order labs and a full MRI (eyes, brain, and spine). Immediately after reviewing the MRI results the neurologists office called to tell me there is a small lesion on my spine T10-T11 and that I have multiple sclerosis. We had a follow up appointment on November 14th in which we discussed starting Ocrevus. Prior to that however she would like to undergo Plasmapheresis with hopes to regain more visual recovery in my right eye. I will be going to the consult for that today and will be sharing my experience for others as there isn't a lot of information on Plasmapheresis use in the case of Optic Neuritis. Overall I have accepted my diagnosis and am focusing on the things that I do have control over. It was a pleasure sharing this with you all.