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Jaybo78

Optic Neuritis recovery

Hi I managed to develop optic neuritis in my right eye at the beginning of September. Quite a long story but It started with the usual pain when moving eye, not that I knew why at the time I just thought I had bad eye strain. Well after a week I suddenly had what the optician thought was an ocular migraine, basically patches of vison suddenly greyed out as blood vessels constrict leaving holes in vision. This soon resolved after 10 mins, and after optician checked me over I thought all was fine. I realised something was not right when I woke up the next morning only to find my vision in right eye had got worse. It was like looking through dark grey lumpy jelly, I could see some detail quite well in patches between the darker patches but decided to get this seem to at the oxford eye hospital. The opthmologist who saw me said it was classic optic neuritis and will pass in a couple of weeks, so less worried again I went home. However things did not improve over the next few days the vision got darker and darker, noticeable each morning and I was starting to develop bad pain in head behind the eye and my vision had gone completely by this stage. After many visits to eye hospital they finally admitted me to hospital for 3 day steroid IV treatment followed by oral tablets for about 10 days. I've also had CT, MRI and blood tests and all were ok, no signs of contributing factors not even MS, though now the Drs regard me as having a 10% chance of developing MS in future. There was no improvement after IV or tablets, Drs seem disappointed, me more so. Beginning of October i started to make out light but very little and could sort of make out shapes more towards top half of vision, bottom quarter is black as ace of spades though. Its now November, 2 months since it all started and I have seen no change since beginning of October. I have been told vision Usally returns, I'm worried that the lack of progress since October, and that this will be it for my recovery. What are your experiences with optic neuritis recovery and how it changes with time? thanks Jay
@Stumbler

@Jaybo78 , I've never had this symptom although many others have. Recovery times have been subject to a lot of discussion because of the concerns that you have. Try the forum search facility, the magnifying glass, top left and search for "Optic Neuritis" and you'll find these previous discussions. PS. I removed your duplicate post for you. :wink:

@AussieKylie

@Jaybo78 I got optic neuritis in my left eye in June this year. Classic eye pain and slightly blurred vision and then within a day or two could barely see anything out of that eye. Didn't have steroids and recovery was really slow for first 6 weeks. Now nearly 6 months later I have central vision but edges are still blurred and I still have occasional eye pain. In currently having pain in my other eye (but not with eye movement) so am worried I might be getting ON in that eye, although I did have it a few months ago and opthomologist said it was all clear. I am having headaches all day/night but don't know if this is eye pain causing the headache or headache causing the eye pain. I can understand how fearful you must be, but don't overanalyse it in your head. Made your doctor again and if you're not satisfied with your treatment keep pursuing it. A good doctor will take any vision loss as a serious issue. Best of luck and keep us updated. Kylie