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    Does this sound like progression?

    Say you had a bout of optic neuritis and not that long after you recover your vision back, you get a bit of blurriness lasting for a few hours each day (and this is ongoing for quite a few months), does that sound like progression?

    I guess what I mean is, if you get symptoms coming back for a few hours per day then they go away, then return again, is this progression or maybe even a mini-relapse?

    #2
    It doesn't sound like progression to me. When symptoms come and go like that, it usually is due to fatigue or heat...what they call a pseudo exacerbation. Once rested or you cool down, symptoms go away.

    Of course, it is something you should talk to your neuro about. You may also want your opthalmologist to check you out again.
    Kathy
    DX 01/06, currently on Tysabri

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      #3
      What you're describing fits the category of pseudoexacerbation -- short-term return of symptoms caused by an increase in body temperature. Body temperature, and hormone and other chemical levels normally go up and down every as part of a natural cycle. In people who are temperature and chemically sensitive, symptoms may come and go.

      To take the opportunity to squelch a popular misconception, there is no such thing as a mini- relapse.

      Those short-term increases in symptoms are not progression and are not relapses. There is no immune attack going on. The symptoms of a pseudo -- false -- exacerbation don't indicate new damage, and they don't themselves cause new damage. They're an indicator of old damage.

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        #4
        I'm not a doctor, but I don't think it's progression.
        Like jreagan70 said.
        It's scary but it's okay.
        Progression usually involves "motor" symptoms that do not go away and just get inexorably worse.
        ON and sensory stuff are no fun at all, but a "good" sign things are still RRMS.

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          #5
          Insomniac

          I had a bout of ON in March. My vision returned to 20/20 after steroids. However, I still have a small "smudge" on my left eye.

          According to my Specialist, it can take up to a year to see if you recover from ON.

          The thing that is important...my smudge is with me 24/7...not a few hours a day. It is residual damage from the ON. Hopefully it will gradually disappear over time. It is a wait and see game.

          I agree with the previous poster about the pseudo-flares.

          I hope you find some comfort in the answers...you seem worried.
          Katie
          "Yep, I have MS, and it does have Me!"
          "My MS is a Journey for One."
          Dx: 1999 DMDS: Avonex, Copaxone, Rebif, currently on Tysabri

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