#optic-neuritis - Shift.ms

12 Dec 2013 12:19Last reply 11 Mar 2021 15:16

Slow recovery from Optic Neuritis?

Hi everyone, hope you are all doing well. :) I am interested to hear about people's experiences with Optic Neuritis, and in particular those who have had a slow recovery from it. My own story - I got an attack of Optic Neuritis in my left eye in June this year. It started off with some mild pain a...

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@Jaybo78

4 Nov 2014 17:19Last reply 31 Jul 2015 05:59

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 m...

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@niteowl

25 Jun 2019 20:46Last reply 29 Jun 2019 22:04

Optic neuritis

Hey I am needing a bit of advice I had ON in Oct and I have started with a sore eye again been getting worse the last few days ..... is this more likely for me to get it again in the same eye ? Dr said to rest, been extremely fatigued again and in a lot of pain in my hips and legs which has been co...

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@Sarah_T

20 Aug 2012 07:11Last reply 15 Sep 2012 23:07

Optic Neuritis

Hi Peeps I've never had optic Neuritis which I am ever so grateful for but I do have a question or two about it. A good friend has been having eye trouble recently. Her left eye became blurrey quite suddenly and has been like it for several weeks. Its making work pretty hard for her and gettin...

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@mtvesuvio

26 Nov 2018 17:44Last reply 29 Nov 2018 15:50

Sort of newly diagnosed, optic neuritis

Hi I started losing vision 6 weeks 4 days ago to be precise. My left eye is has a gray cloud over the central vision - peripheral is ok. My right eye has blurring on the edges, so if I look at a word, the last letters come in and out of vision. I had IV steroids at 12 days - they did nothing but m...

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@boodle06

23 Oct 2012 14:18Last reply 24 Oct 2012 23:29

Who hasn't had optic neuritis?

Anyone?

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@purpleannoys

22 Jun 2012 07:49Last reply 26 Jun 2012 08:17

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 act...

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@AngeShiftMS

17 Jan 2013 11:37Last reply 1 Feb 2013 17:25

Anyone had Optic Neuritis that hasn't resolved?

I have had ON in one eye which hasn't cleared up, and although I'm back at work, I'm seriously struggling with looking at the monitor all day. My Ophthalmologist suggested that the damage to the optic nerve will be permanent. So that leaves me in "What can I do to overcome this" territory.... ...

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@ONSufferer

13 Dec 2017 13:14Last reply 21 Dec 2017 13:20

Optic Neuritis

Good afternoon Brand new to this site and not really au fait with chat groups - not generally something I get involved with, so please bear with me! Also potentially feeling a bit of a fraud because I have not actually been diagnosed with MS at present, although I have been warned that the optic neu...

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@Sarah_T

27 May 2016 06:21Last reply 2 Jun 2020 18:41

How do you know if its optic neuritis?

Hi I have RRMS but I've never had optic neuritis but since Monday vision has been blurry in my right eye and I've had a weird headache behind my right eye. The kind thats fine if I keep my head still but if I bend down it really hurts. I've been keeping the headache at bay with paracetamol 3 tim...

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@boodle06

26 Sep 2012 15:42Last reply 28 Sep 2012 15:36

Symptoms of optic neuritis...

Apart from the obvious things that it causes, double vision/blurred etc, did any of you have any other symptoms before getting it full blown?

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@bbaughman

10 May 2018 17:42Last reply 5 Mar 2020 08:20

Optic Neuritis in right eye

So I recently was diagnosed with optic neuritis in my right eye, my doctor wants to put me on 3 day iv steroids. Does this help, how long will this fuzzy/blurriness be in my eye? What is your experience with optic neuritis?

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@Solo

22 Aug 2020 09:57Last reply 25 Aug 2020 16:10

After effects of optic neuritis

I know there is lots here about optic neuritis, but I wanted to ask if anyone has had their vision recovered but been left with discomfort ever since. I had ON a year ago and lost partial vision in the eye but it returned within 2 months. However now a year on I Continue to get intermittent but dail...

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@jojo75

12 Dec 2017 11:43Last reply 10 Jan 2018 07:57

???Optic neuritis

Hi Looking for some ideas please. On Sunday my left eye was very irritating and t vision in that eye blurry. Been very painful and watery. Saw my gp hoping it was conjunctivitis. That's ruled out and referred to eye clinic at hospital. My gp was quite certain that you only get this eye problem bef...

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@desbanks

14 May 2012 05:21Last reply 14 May 2012 18:09

Optic Neuritis otherwise known as ON

As we all know MS could be unique to as all and we could all go through things differently, so i just wanted to know how, if it did,how did ON manifest its self? What do people mean by visual problems,

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@Jessa

4 Sep 2014 21:01Last reply 26 Sep 2014 21:14

Optic neuritis for 2 months.How long?

How long can I expect this? It's been a little over 2 months...the eye has not worsened or got any better...it's like looking through cobwebs/smoke and I'm tired of it!!! Any advice is a Godsend :)

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@JoshHocking1

16 Feb 2021 12:21 EditedLast reply 12 Jul 2021 21:41

Optic neuritis, will my sight return?

Got optic neuritis last year around June time, started off with what felt like migraine vision and got bad within the week, went hospital for tests and the diagnosed it as optic neuritis caused by MS. As for now my vision in my left eye never fully returned, looking through both eyes sight seems nor...

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@staceyisabel88

24 Jan 2016 01:02Last reply 26 Jan 2016 09:11

Bore off Optic Neuritis...

Hi all... I'm new here. I am so happy to have stumbled across this site. It's 2am and I'm wrestling a teething baby currently.. so it couldn't have come at a better time! I was dx'd just before Xmas when my son was about 5 months old.. This is off the back of suffering from optic neuritis since mid ...

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@Guy_Mckeag

14 Aug 2018 12:42Last reply 28 Aug 2018 19:24

Tecfidera and Optic Neuritis

Hey All, I've been diagnosed with Ms within the last couple of weeks. Today was my DMT appointment, my MS nurse and I have narrowed treatment down to either Tecfidera or Aubagio. I see from older posts that some people have experienced hot flushes as a side effect of the drugs so I wondered if any...

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@rabwick

6 Mar 2018 09:17Last reply 19 Mar 2018 07:25

Optic Neuritis Not Healing

Hi All, I was diagnosed with MS about 5-6 months ago. This started with my right eye going blurry - once at the hospital i went though all the tests and came out with an MS diagnosis and optic neuritis. I was put on Tysabri immediately which im still on now. I feel fine other than my eye still bein...

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