Has anyone ever heard of optic neuritis? I never had until I had several days of weird unexplained symptoms. It started with a killer headache then my eye, my actual eye, began to hurt like a sore muscle. The headache would not stop regardless of how much advil or tylenol I took. By the 3rd day my vision began to get fuzzy and I went to the Urgent Care in College Station Texas. They assumed it was migraine related and I received a shot of Nuprin and went to sleep. I woke up without a headache but the eye pain and vision loss was still there. Next step, optomitrist. After an exam with my left eye vision showing up 20/60 and nothing was found wrong, I was stumped.
The Internet is powerful. Plug in your medical symptoms, ACCURATELY, and it is amazing how you can find out what is going on. Ginger Magoon, Realtor and my co owner of ERA Brazos Valley Real Estate actually researched my symptoms out of concern. She is the person that told me "optic neuritis." After a trip to the St. Joseph ER in Bryan Texas and a few thousands of dollars later, this was offically diagnosed.
I cannot see hardly at all out of my left eye and I'm color blind in that eye. Good news and bad. Good: It is temporary; lasting several weeks to months with a good chance of total vision restoration. Bad: a VERY high indicator of the disease multiple sclerosis. An MRI showed no lesions in my brain so my risk level is (according to multiple websites: 22-35% chance of being diagnosed with MS in the next 3-15 years).
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