My 24 yr old son was just diagnosed with optic neuritis. The first eye dr sent him to a neuro ophthalmologist at dean mcgee eye institute. They're suppose to be the best in our area. The dr he saw examined him, did more testing and concluded it was from car scratch disease.
Optic neuritis is the only symptom he's had. Also night sweats fo 2 wks. Don't know if that's related. ON is a rare symptom of cat scratch. Not any common symptoms. He has about 40 percent vision loss in his right eye due to a blind spot since last Sunday.
He was given a z-pac and low dose steroids and come back in a month. And ordered labs for cat scratch and 3 syphyllis tests. No mri or anything else! He's been in a relationship with the same person for 2 yrs. And just had a perfectly healthy boy. The first eye dr kept bringing up ms and the specialist pretty much dismissed it.
If his lab work is neg I feel like he needs an mri and the drs need to jump on this to figure out what's causing it. No improvement since starting meds on friday.
Any advice is greatly appreciated! I'm just a worried mom!
Optic neuritis is the only symptom he's had. Also night sweats fo 2 wks. Don't know if that's related. ON is a rare symptom of cat scratch. Not any common symptoms. He has about 40 percent vision loss in his right eye due to a blind spot since last Sunday.
He was given a z-pac and low dose steroids and come back in a month. And ordered labs for cat scratch and 3 syphyllis tests. No mri or anything else! He's been in a relationship with the same person for 2 yrs. And just had a perfectly healthy boy. The first eye dr kept bringing up ms and the specialist pretty much dismissed it.
If his lab work is neg I feel like he needs an mri and the drs need to jump on this to figure out what's causing it. No improvement since starting meds on friday.
Any advice is greatly appreciated! I'm just a worried mom!
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