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What Is The Risk Of Getting MS After An Optic Neuritis?

Hello, My name is Jamie. I am 23, 5 7 and about 155 pounds. I was diagnosed with optic neuritis in early March. I had eye pain upon movement, blurry vision (I would consider it pretty mild considering what I have read about other cases), slight loss of color (Which still remains), and some odd headaches (almost felt like a severe hot flash inside my head). The doctor did not feel it was necessary for me to take the steroid treatment. My vision is recovering, but I don t really expect it to be 100%. I had an MRI of the brain and neck and it came out clean with no lesions. My blood tests came back clean as well. I consider myself to be relatively healthy aside from some urinary tract infections and my neurologist said that he doesn t think I will develop MS, but what I have read makes me think differently and I want to be informed. I know that there is no way to pinpoint exactly what my risk of MS is, but I was curious if any other cases like mine have not developed MS? When I look online for answers, I never seem to find a positive story.
Mon, 1 Sep 2014
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I can understand your concern and let me tell you that in case of Multiple sclerosis some kind of episodes comes and go that mostly affect the vision and lower limb weakness but this comes around even with the help of steroid some newer drug are under trail and some are in the markets this gives promising results that is being claimed, hope this information helps.
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What Is The Risk Of Getting MS After An Optic Neuritis?

HI Well come to HCM I can understand your concern and let me tell you that in case of Multiple sclerosis some kind of episodes comes and go that mostly affect the vision and lower limb weakness but this comes around even with the help of steroid some newer drug are under trail and some are in the markets this gives promising results that is being claimed, hope this information helps.