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purpleannoys

Optic Neuritis Blues

Hey everyone! Hope you're all enjoying your fridays :) I've had a flare up of ON in my right eye - kinda like a fog curtain has been lowered over it! pretty much zero vision atm leaving me very off balance and i have no depth perception whatsoever! This is first time I've had a symptom that has actually physically affected me so profoundly (dx Oct '11) before this it's all been sensory stuff. I was wondering if any of you have experienced similar symptoms and what you did to cope with it? at the moment i'm doing my usual thing of just getting on with it - sat at work periodically knocking cups of tea over ;) My MS team are aware and asked me to cal back monday if it hasnt got any better - just gotta get through the weekend without tripping over the cats! :)
@hkittypink

it was a whole ago, but I wore an eye patch as it seemed that the distortion was making me more off balance than not, it also rested the eye a little (I was studying for my finals at the time so I couldn't switch off!) I hope it passes quickly for you.

@purpleannoys

fingers crossed - last time I had problems with my eye it was only pain with no visual disturbance and lasted for exactly 2 weeks. I will definitely try the eye patch idea :) Thank you!