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I’m relatively new to this whole MS thing having gotten recently diagnosed and I haven’t had enough time to process this given that I’ve been distracting myself with work so much. To my detriment at times. My diagnosis has been a bit weird and quite dramatic but I’ll just vent here and hopefully s...

Hello, my name is Phillip and I’m new here at this site. A 63 yo male and have been suffering from MS symptoms serious since the 80’s. I blew them off for years, then in 2004 the symptoms started to increase. The would hit all of the sudden and then disappear for a while. First it was muscle cramps...

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 ...

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...

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...

Hi all I hope you don't mind me posting here. Apologies if this is long but if i dont share my worries somewhere i might explode! I have suffered migraines all my life, however about 6 weeks ago I had a cluster and on the 3rd day started to get blurred vision as opposed to the usual aura and began t...

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...

If you've experienced retrobulbar neuritis before, can you share what symptoms you had and how it was diagnosed? I've visited the optician after having had pain in my left eye when moving my eye. No blurred vision or colour vision loss. The optician has suggested RN as a possibility and made an urge...