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Optic Neuritis and MS are a common combination. Optic Neuritis is an inflammation of the optic nerve that can cause double vision or blurred vision in one or both eyes. It is a characteristic symptom of MS, with many MSers reporting Optic Neuritis as the symptom that led to their multiple sclerosis diagnosis.Feel free to talk to other MSers who have experience with Optic Neuritis or ask the community any questions you may have.

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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

@stephmed

6 Apr 2025 20:07Last reply 7 Apr 2025 17:57

Will I ever feel like myself again?

Hi all, I was diagnosed in Jan of this year after a severe bout of optic neuritis. During the diagnostic process i developed a spinal leak and headache from the lumbar puncture and have had residual pain and nerve issues in my lower back after the epidural blood patch to seal it. My eyesight improv...

@HilaryP

2 Apr 2025 20:29Last reply 3 Apr 2025 18:22

Yes I know about optic neuritis but I was interested in what an eye specialist can see when they examine the retina.

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@shiftmsmk

31 Mar 2025 20:54Last reply 7 Apr 2025 01:47

Optic Neuritis

I’d love to hear people’s stories with optic neuritis. Like when did it start? Do you experience it with Uthoffs? How long? One of the major first symptoms I had was double vision. I got it after getting COVID. The double vision went away but I still experience brightness, especially when hot. If ...

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@TanishaL

30 Mar 2025 09:18Last reply 30 Mar 2025 13:14

Hey! I’m new here :)

I was initially diagnosed with Clinical Isolated Syndrome following a bout of left optic neuritis in April 2023 - from here until September 2024 my fatigue levels started to drop and started to get really bad pins and needles in both of my lower legs - my neurologist ordered another MRI and in Janua...

Derby, United Kingdom

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