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Optic neuritis

I am needing some help advice I think I may have optic neuritis I have a pain in the back of my left eye, blurry vision and pain on movement ..... I went to optician last fri on advice of gp they said they couldn’t find a cause for my blurry vision or pain gave me stronger glasses so referred me back to gp, I have had constant pain for the last couple of days and finally got an app with gp they have referred me back to optician as they said they don’t have the equipment to diagnose it Feel like I am being passed around and I only know what I have researched myself ..... Got a nurse couldn’t even get a gp she said it doesn’t sound like optic neuritis? What do I do ? Xx
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@niteowl , situations like this destroy your faith in the system. You need an eye specialist to look into your eyes to check out the optic nerves for damage. A decent optician is capable of this. So, specifically request an eye test that checks the health of your optic nerve. Optic Neuritis is definitely a possibility given your symptoms. If the optician agrees with that diagnosis, then let your MS Nurse know as soon as you can. You may be offered Steroids to bring this problem under control quickly.

@niteowl
@niteowl
 

Thanks @stumbler yes it does, thankfully the optician was really nice and called the eye specialist at the hospital and discussed the symptoms and results with him and he said sounds very likely to be optic neuritis and to put me on steroids so had to go back to the dr to get the prescription and letter to be sent to my neuro ...... am to get an app with eye specialist in two weeks time at the hospital. So hard when you see a different GP each time you go and have you to explain everything all over again 🙄 .....