To See or Not to See, that is the Question
By Bytemi
@Bytemi (1553)
United States
December 6, 2007 2:03pm CST
I was diagnosed with MS when I was twenty, and over the years I have had a lot of problems, but for the most part they get better and go away leaving a little symptom, that I adjust my life to work around.
Three months ago, I lost my sight in both eyes while driving and drove off the road. My neurologist was in Prague at the time so his Nurse told me to go and see an Ophomologist. I was then informed that I had Uveitis and was placed on Steroids. I have been on steroids for the full three months and they are driving me insane.
On Tuesday, I went to see the eye doctor and she told me that the Uveitis had moved into my optical field and I was going to go blind.
Later that day, I went to go and my neurologist who informed me that it didn't look like Uveitis nor did it look like Optic Neuritis. He didn't know what it was, but me losing my site was not an option, so he was going to treat me like his daughter and find someone who can fix it. He got me an appointment at Johns Hopkins next week and I had an MRI yesterday (see attached picture of the lovely present I got while getting my MRI contrast).
I feel awful, I am stressed, the eye doctor wrote me off and may have given me the wrong diagnoses, which could lead to me losing my sight.
What would you do in this situation, how would it make you feel? I am having a very hard time distingishing between the steroid feels and the real feels right now, so I am just curious, how would this make you feel?
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@rajeshpalakkad (1450)
• India
28 Dec 07
Steroids leave lot of side effects. But at times there is no better choice, especially in the case of MS. I have been with a MS patient since past 17 years (diagnosed about 17 years back). She is completely bedridden now. But you would never see her with a long face or sad eyes! It sure is a troublesome disease...but any disease is like that only. Eye problem is very common. Difficulty in concentrating, shaky sights are what she experiences. Have found that taking vitamin D regularly helps a lot and exposing to early morning sunlight is a lot beneficial.
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@Shaun72 (15959)
• Palatka, Florida
7 Dec 07
I would go to a different eye doctor. This has to be awful. I hope it doesn't make you blind. I first started seeing double vision while driving to work in 1999 before I knew what was going on. I hope you get help with your vision. Bless you.
