Eye Am Disturbed

Vision Disturbances and Optic Neuritis (see above video)

I had been hoping that the increased exercise and better diet had "cured" me. After all, this has never been diagnosed as definitely MS. I thought maybe this flare as a reaction to the stress of surgery would be short-lived. Nope, and nope. The hand pain and weakness, leg weakness and numbness (and ache), and vision issues are still present -- now 2 months after the day of surgery. All are improved, but not gone. Stable, mostly, but symptoms still occur. Read this article.

So, we got an appointment for me with an opthalmologist. We'd warned her ahead of time what my symptoms were: pain in the eye (especially when looking to the side; one eye at a time and switches eyes) as well as double and blurry vision. She and an optometrist ran several tests, finding nystagmus (involuntary eye movement) and strabismus (eyes don't work together to look the same direction). The optometrist had me look through prisms to see if they helped, and they definitely did. There are stick-on prisms I can attach to my glasses to try them out. However, he gave me some exercises to try in order to help my eyes to start working together again -- like the brock string exercise. I haven't done it a lot, for it adds to the eye strain. So, I'm waiting for improvement.

Brain scan/MRI (scanning the brain and stem as well as "orbitals") set for February 6th. They will be looking for an aneurysm (possible PKD side-effect) as well as lesions.