#optic neuritis - Shift.ms

28 May 2025 01:44

Thankful for my father

At 12 I saw a Dr. Who said my optic neuritis could be a sign of MS. We left his office not trusting him because something seemed funny about this guy. 2 weeks later getting hair cut I see him on the news, being arrested for Pedophila in his practice.Thanks Dad for having my back, I wish we could of ...

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@angela79

27 May 2025 19:55Last reply 28 May 2025 01:50

Im currently waiting to see a neurologist.

For those of you in the days before diagnosis did you ever have mild optic neuritis or eye problems My GP suspects i have Ms I have a pulling type of pain in one eye alongside blurred vision and peripheral vision loss and dull colours and face pain. The pain has never been severe but the symptoms ...

Birmingham, United Kingdom

@Lauren21

23 May 2025 11:56Last reply 23 May 2025 18:05

MRI post relapse

I have a scheduled MRI next weekend which is 6 weeks after symptom onset. I attended the eye hospital with suspected retrobulbar neuritis which is optic neuritis behind the optic nerve. However when I returned for a 2 week check up, the Dr who examined me said my optic nerve appears to be firing- wh...

@AWAYWITHMS

16 May 2025 17:04 EditedLast reply 23 May 2025 20:00

Vision loss

Anybody experience vision loss at any point because of MS? I’ve been partially blind in my left eye since last year. I experienced optic neuritis late July 24’, did 5 days in the hospital on high dose steroids. Vision went from blurry to dim to dark. The iv steroid did little affect leaving my vi...

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@anniespencer

30 Apr 2025 14:56Last reply 5 May 2025 19:26

Eye pain

Anyone suffer with eye pain but not optic neuritis? My eye goes through stages of pain on movement but the opthalmology clinic says it's not optic neuritis it's happened a few tea for a few weeks at a time in different eyes but after scans and tests they say my optic nerve is fine and my eyes are he...

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@Melissaglass

29 Apr 2025 09:47 EditedLast reply 29 Apr 2025 12:58

Offloading - The diagnosis process and keeping up with life

Hi guys, here with my first post and just needing to get some things off my chest as I'm struggling. Background is that I am newly diagnosed but not yet on DMT. Last summer had a bout of optic neuritis, and MRI results in January showed 2 lesions. I've since had two appointments with a neurologist ...

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@kawigma

27 Apr 2025 11:44Last reply 27 Apr 2025 15:12

Anybody with Optic Neuritis?

Do you have optic neuritis? Do I? When I get tired, or stressed or sometimes neither. When I move my eyes I'll "hear" the movement. It's sounds like a whooshing noise. Makes me feel seasick and my eyes will ache. Mentioned it to ophthalmologist and he said he had never had anybody report that. I've ...

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@tiffduh

12 Apr 2025 02:10 EditedLast reply 15 Apr 2025 01:01

Has anybody ever experienced Optic neuritis? If so what helped also extreme fatigue and weakness. What helped with that as well. I’ve been diagnosed with RRMS in 2022 l. This is my first bad flare up.

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@Emilybelch

11 Apr 2025 09:10Last reply 11 Apr 2025 10:06

How to get over bad news..

I just had a call with an optician, got my driving license taken off me by DVLA 5 years ago and the optician today said the damage to my eyes had been done from optic nuritis 9 years ago and it’s just got worse.. it’s causing me every day walking problems etc and it’s really getting me down how do I...

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@JJPac

7 Apr 2025 13:20Last reply 9 Apr 2025 09:12

Choose a year

If you could go back to a year before your multiple sclerosis diagnosis, which year would it be? I choose 1998: the year I passed my driving test 🚗 before losing sight in right eye due to optic neuritis 👁 and England were also supposed to win the World Cup. Go! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇧🇷🇩🇪🇦🇷🇮🇹🇦🇷...

London, United Kingdom

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