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Hello, looking for some words of wisdom, am fairly recently diagnosed (March this year) luckily symptoms have been fairly manageable so far. However Thursday morning I woke up without much sight in my right eye, trip to eye casualty later and diagnosis of optic neuritis. They’ve said it will heal it...

Hi everyone, I’m new here 👋 I was diagnosed in December 2024, my first symptom was numbness in my legs back in 2021-22, then optic neuritis in 2023 had landed me in the hospital and so began my MS journey. During that time I was just a few wks shy of moving from upstate NY to the UK for school - it...

I don't know if I'm over reacting/panicking, but Tuesday i had a grumbling headache, that twice gave me sharp pain to the right side of my head, grumbling very mild headache since. Yesterday I felt like there was 'jelly' in my right eye making sight a little off, but not awful, resolving after a f...

Hi everyone, looking for advice and experiences. On Monday, I did my first workout after not being active for about 4 years. I had normal muscle soreness after, nothing unusual. On Wednesday, I started sweating a lot and had pain in my right eye. I have had optic neuritis in that eye before. I als...

I’m struggling to articulate today. Bear with me. I can’t stop crying. I don’t feel like there’s anything going on that is worthy of such a strong emotional response. New. Optic neuritis. Ocular migraines. One point away From being legally blind with corrective lenses. Photophobic. Dizzy. Na...

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 ...

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...

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...