Hello all. I am having a really hard day in limbo today. I have been in tears all day. I had a classic ms attack with all the classic symptoms 6 weeks ago. Clean MRI. Nuero says seems like MS, so let's wait and see if there is another attack and we will re-run the MRIs again.
I mentioned to her that I am still having a lot of eye pain and in the last week I have had floaters and flashes of light in my right eye. 6 weeks ago I had two weeks of stabbing pain straight through my left eye. That has since stopped but for the past 4 weeks I have had a very soar right eye, like I have a bruised eye ball. I still have pain with movement during certain times of the day and some blurry vision. When I mentioned the floaters and the flashes of light she referred me immeadiately to a retina specialist in fear of retina detachment.
I spent 4 hours today at a retina specialist and he told me my retina is in tact. Great! I asked about optic nueritis and he said that the nerves did not seem inflammed and he is not sure if they could have been 6 weeks ago. ??? He stated that my eyes are dry. Ok, so having dry eyes will make only my right eye have stabbing pain, bruised pain, floaters, blurry vision, and flashes of light? Is a retina specialist a valid person to diagnose optic nueritis? I would have thought so but he didn't even consider it. ???
Is life kidding me with this? I am really sad and thinking again that this is all in my head. My mother called and said that maybe all of the past 6 weeks of my body revolting against me is just stress. I really believe that this is early onset MS and I am beyond the point of frustration that I can't get answers. I am ok with the waiting for it to really show up, but I feel like no one is validating my concerns, which makes me think I am going crazy.
Trying to be positive but today was really hard when you know inside that there is something really wrong with your body and no one understands.
Thx for listening...
Ella
I mentioned to her that I am still having a lot of eye pain and in the last week I have had floaters and flashes of light in my right eye. 6 weeks ago I had two weeks of stabbing pain straight through my left eye. That has since stopped but for the past 4 weeks I have had a very soar right eye, like I have a bruised eye ball. I still have pain with movement during certain times of the day and some blurry vision. When I mentioned the floaters and the flashes of light she referred me immeadiately to a retina specialist in fear of retina detachment.
I spent 4 hours today at a retina specialist and he told me my retina is in tact. Great! I asked about optic nueritis and he said that the nerves did not seem inflammed and he is not sure if they could have been 6 weeks ago. ??? He stated that my eyes are dry. Ok, so having dry eyes will make only my right eye have stabbing pain, bruised pain, floaters, blurry vision, and flashes of light? Is a retina specialist a valid person to diagnose optic nueritis? I would have thought so but he didn't even consider it. ???
Is life kidding me with this? I am really sad and thinking again that this is all in my head. My mother called and said that maybe all of the past 6 weeks of my body revolting against me is just stress. I really believe that this is early onset MS and I am beyond the point of frustration that I can't get answers. I am ok with the waiting for it to really show up, but I feel like no one is validating my concerns, which makes me think I am going crazy.
Trying to be positive but today was really hard when you know inside that there is something really wrong with your body and no one understands.
Thx for listening...
Ella
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