copaxone and optic neuritis

Most people with optic neuritis (about 90%) experience pain when moving their eyes. This pain usually subsides after a couple of days, even if vision is still affected. Appearing Over a Couple of Days: For most people, the onset is pretty rapid, with the peak vision loss occurring within 24 to 48 hours of onset. Usually Only in One Eye: Optic neuritis can affect the vision in both eyes simultaneously, but this is extremely rare.

I had a bout of Optic Neuritis (ON) in my right eye this April, after which I was diagnosed with a clinically isolated syndrome and prescribed Copaxone. Early this week my forehead and the surrounding of my left eye began to hurt. My vision seems fine after this week, but the dull pain is there. It's not terrible, but it's there. Could it be ON again? It's not like last time: Last time it hurt more and I quickly had changes in my vision. This time my vision seems OK.

That was my second initial symptom before my diagnosis of MS. I had a sharp pain behind my right eye a few days before my vision became very dim. It lasted for about 6 months then it went away and came back months later. There is no pain now though, there still is a slight visual difference compared to my left eye. But it is much better, before i could barely see out of it. I noticed it would get worse when I was stressed or coming out of a hot shower.

Lighting flashes could be optic nerve, but the classic eye issues with lighting, sparks , and fireworks is a detaching retina. Retro-bulbar Optic neuritis (a majority of ON) has a classic presentation with 2-3 days of pain followed by loss of brightness, loss of contrast, loss of color perception, and the development of a central sctoma. Many cases of ON have no external signs that can be observed through a slit lap exam or with an ophthalmoscope.

One year ago, I experienced a severe case of Optic Neuritis in left eye that has not improved despite steroid/prednisone use. (Current vision is 20/2800.) My doctor says that at this point, the eye will not recover. I am a teacher, and experience a lot of discomfort with eye strain: dryness, fatigue, mild pain. Is there ANYTHING I can do to relieve this discomfort, and any hope on the horizon for stem cell research and progress? Any information you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

I had confirmed optic neuritis and the MRI didn't show it. I think it's common for ON not to show up on an MRI.

She went back to the hospital where doctors did many tests and MRIs and they diagnosed her with optical neuritis. They said that it could be of the first symptoms of MS. She's been getting a lot medication, but so far no results at all. She can't work, or go anywhere by herself. I am devastated and don't know how to help her at this point. She is coming to the US next week and i hope there is something doctors can do her here. Please, any advice will be greatly appreciated.

I had an eye appt with my retina specialist on Dec 2 and he did not see optic neuritis or any inflammation. He said that it is not common for a woman my age to see floaters/flashes unless there was a retinal detachment which I didn't have. He said that as a doctor, he must think of inflammatory causes for the explanation of floaters/flashes. Inflammatory causes such as MS or lupus. He says that MS can cause floaters/flashes for sure.

ed with RRMS in 2007, my neuro suspected it might not be MS after all and actually might be NMO. This was following an episode of optic neuritis. I too have spinal lesions and a mostly unremarkable brain except for one brain stem lesion. I too had the NMO-IgG test which was sent to Mayo for analysis. Came back neg which didn't give me much reassurance for the reason you stated.

If there is a way to stop a flair-up in it's tracks, I would like to know what it is. Even steroids are no guarantee that it will stop a flair-up. It's usually given for periods of Optic Neuritis, where your very sight is at risk.

3 questions1-is it possible to have ms with neg brain mri but hx or abnormalver,sesomotor test,optic neuritis.2-have you heard of copaxone causing pnkd.

Lesion load and optic neuritis (ON) are pretty hard to correlate. The optic nerve (cranial nerve 2 - CN2) goes from the optic disk of each eye through the cerebrum all the way to the vision centers of the brain in the rear of the cerebrum. It is one of two cranial nerves that are cerebral. The remaining 10 pairs all terminate at the brainstem. Recurrent ON can occur in any recurrent demyelinating disease of the cerebrum. MS would fit that criteria.

I saw an opthamologist yesterday and was told that I have optic neuritis in the right eye. My visual acuity is normal, thank goodness, so that is a good sign. However, blurriness and double vision comes and go--and has for some time. Plus, I don't see well at night. But the weird thing is, after having my eyes dilated, the pupil in my right eye remained dilated the next day. As today progressed, the pupil is coming back to normal, but is still slightly larger than the other one.

In June of this year I was diagnosed with Optic Neuritis. This led to subsequent findings of lesions on the brain (CIS - I guess that makes me a "Limbolander"?). After a hospital stay, including an inpatient and an outpatient corticosteroid regimen, my vision bounced back. My concern is that there might be permanent damage.

t have another symptom for 4 years -- then had numbness in my thighs and down my left leg. Did a follow-up MRI and there were new lesions. Started on Copaxone then and 6 months later another MRI showed that the new lesions were gone. I've been on Copaxone since then (2003) and didn't have any other symptoms, until 2008 when I got Trigeminal Neuralgia -- which may or may not be caused by my MS (the doctors can't agree). The National MS Society suggests exercise and a low fat diet.

So to start off, friday after two weeks of eye pain in my left eye my vision went blurry. Ended up at the optham and he Dx Mild Optic Neuritis. I was late to work on tuesday because of this and I told my boss. I had to go to the Dr and I have mild optic neuritis (ON) but I'm ok. I'm an idiot. I was totally trying to hide my MS and should of known because my boss is an MD she would think of MS because of the ON. So she comes back and wants to look in my eye.

Since then I had a bout of optic neuritis in Dec 2008 and another MS flare in June 2011. I am on Copaxone since 2008. Should my neurologist be ordering a follow up MRI? Why or why not? Thank you!

This is a common test to see if there is evidence of Optic Neuritis. It is non-invasive and pretty easy to perform. If will help to establish a baseline for the current health of you neuro optical system.

m leaving Limbo Land and moving over to the MS Forum as my main home. I have gone from Optic Neuritis with one periventricular lesion to ON and now TN wit several more lesions. The last MRI showed damage to my right optic nerve and right optic tract, so vision in both of my eyes is now effected (1/2 of the left eyes vision goes down the right optic tract.

In October 2005 I had a major MS exacerbation which resulted in me being diagnosed with MS 6 months later. Apparently I have had MS for 18 years, I had optic neuritis in 1990, and my MS symptoms were very mild up until the exacerbation. The exacerbation lasted 10 weeks and included electrical back pain, various other types of neurological pain, leg numbness, balance issues, vertigo, banding, some eye issues, and the return of incontinence.

They tend to come in the afternoon for a couple of hours (together with a worsening of the sight in the eye that had the neuritis, and a bit of tingling here and there) and then disappear. Who else has headaches like these? How are they linked to my symptoms (or to the lesions!) and why??? p.s. Got my first Copaxone shot today. It went well, much better than I expected. Let's hope it keeps being this way for the time to come!

About a month ago I developed a bout of optic neuritis that felt like it was just a sinus headache and a severe sore throat after the optic neuritis started. The doctor ordered a brain MRI that showed mild ms lesions (2-3). My neurologist was not quick to jump to an MS diagnosis and ordered a spinal tap that came back perfectly clean. The day of my spinal tap I started having little muscle twitches but they have gotten a lot better as the weeks gone on and have not really bothered me at all.

People can have optic neuritis and never have anything else. That is called isolated optic neuritis. About 42% of people who have optic neuritis will develop MS within the next several years.

Sometimes an ophthalmologist can examine your eye and see evidence in your optic disk that you have or have had optic neuritis. Sometimes not. A brain MRI doesn't necessarily show this either. A positive outcome from an evoked potentials test tends to mean (though this is not universally agreed on) that there is a lesion somewhere on the optic nerve, even if it doesn't show, and even if the patient has no eye complaints. I'm in this last category.

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