solu medrol optic neuritis

I finished my IV Solu-Medrol on 9/19, and now only a little over 2 weeks later, my eye is hurting again. Could I already be relapsing? My vision is still o-kay, but the pain is definitely back.

I started my exacerbation in April of this year and immediately got on Solu-Medrol. I took the Solu-Medrol for 6 days at maximum dosage and tapered off with Prednisone. While my Optic Neuritis went away after only a couple of weeks or so, I soon had a Trigeminal Neuralgia attack. This only happened once, thank God, but a few days later, I began to experience difficulty walking. I still have difficulty walking, some days good, some days really bad, but the other symptoms have vanished.

It's quite likely that your daughter will have a reoccurence of optic neuritis, either in the same eye or the other one. If it looks like she's going into a flare, the experts recommend an IV infusion of solumedrol. IV steroids are better at preventing reoccurence of ON over the oral steroid... don't know why, that's just what they say.

Hi Jan - Just a few words on my personal experience with solu-medrol. I was on a 5-day infusion for loss of vision. Took a month afterward before I started to see results, but who knows if it was b/c the steroids or natural wane?... Next time I had the 5-day infusion was in March for heat band and down my leg. Felt better after 2 weeks.

I have since had my first exacerbation in the form of ON and just finished a 6 day course of oral Solu-Medrol at home. The course of Solu-Medrol was initially supposed to be for 3 days, but there was no improvement of my condition, so the Doc decided to prescribe 3 more days worth. When I asked the Doctor about beginning D.M.D.s again, she said that I would need to discuss it with my Neurologist. I did so, and my Neurologist booked me an appointment for the end of this month.

The neuro opthalmologist told me that if I did have it that it was further back on the optic nerve toward the visual pathways and brain, This is called Retoubular Neuritis. It has the same symptoms as ON, infact it is just another form of it. I do believe I had it because I had every symptom of it. The pain was awful and I begged my neuro for the steriods, but he said that the acute stage had passed and I was 3/4 of the way through it, and the steriods would not be affective at this point.

Does Solu-Medrol cause bone aching to be worse and what do you find can ease this awful symptom? All of my MRI's have shown only tiny lesions that are in my subcortical white matter and my doctor has attributed those to my migraines that I suffered in my mid-twenties. I am now 38 years old. But my doc does beleive that I am presenting with "clinical MS".

The worst long term health effect that I can see from the amazing list of side-effects is damage to the Optic Nerve. This definitely ***** if you have Optic Neuritis, but I would rather walk than see out of both eyes right now :) I hope you feel better soon.

My last ms relapse was nearly 2 months ago and I have a lot of questions. I had a 3 day solu-medrol treatment and it seemed to help for about a week. Now I seem just as bad as 2 months ago. I also had a anxiety situation about a week ago and was put on lexapro and (clonazepam temporarily). I feel so drugged and not myself I keep reading that these side effects will go away. But I am worried.

In relations to MS - Patients generally receive a 1-5 day course of intravenous treatment with steroids like Solu-Medrol, Decadron, methylprednisolone for acute MS attacks, because IV steroids basically help suppress the immune system which speeds the rate of recovery but high doses of IV steroids (pulse therapy) is not a 'cure' because it doesn't stop the disease that is attacking the central nervous system and causing the symptoms.

I have had two rounds of 3 day IV Solu Medrol (awful) and my eye still has not improved one bit! Is this normal? I have read from people that their eye got better a week after their steroids. Will it improve or am I at risk of having permanent damage? Thanks for your help!

Hi. I have been very confused about symptoms that I have been having on and off over the last eight years. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I was very healthy up until age 20 when I was working out at the gym i noticed my vision was becoming blurry. By the next morning I noticed a big bling spot in my left eye. After a couple of opthamologists I finally saw a neuro-opthamologist who wasn't sure whether it was anterior ischemic optic neuropathy or optic neuritis.

I was very recently dx with MS and have had my first excaserbation in the form of Optic Neuritis. My Eye Dr and Neuro decided it would be best for me to be on Solu-Medrol. I started off with a 3 day course, and the Nystagmus (uncontrollled eye movement) caused by ON actually worsened. At this point, my doctors decided that I needed another 3 day treatment.

Hi Newby here, I've been expirencing MSy Symptoms since 2006. Numbness, tingling, blurred vision, esculating to leg spasticity and mild footdrop. In 2007 I went to neuro #1 who said "no big deal, probably viral" A few months later went to my now current neuro doc who is wonderful and attentive. My exams have been getting worse over the years.....sx aysmmetrical brisk to hyper reflexs, postive hoffman's and babinskis. ocular dysmetria, enlarged optic nerves. Phew!

The opthamologist and my MS Specialist (I am not diagnosed) got together and started me on IV solu medrol for 5 days. I just finished Saturday the last IV. I seem to have lost perifial vision and color satration in the left eye, ut the pain is now a dull ache. I can not drive cause the rest of the vision field is still very blurry. But hopefuly that will clear up soon. I am not sure if the MRI always shows it, mine did not even get me a diagnosis.

A week later I had double vision which prompted my first round of Solu-Medrol. The drug did seem to help, and I saw a steady improvement until the beginning of April, where I estimate I was about 95% of normal. Only if I looked to the far left I saw double. Well, I began a new relapse mid April (other sensory symptoms) which I was given another round of Solu-Medrol in the beginning of May.

For example, my first symptom was Optic Neuritis. My second flare was bilateral leg weakness. I woke up, my legs felt so tired then they got worse over a few hours. My second flare started in my Right arm. Same thing, intense weakness, pins and needles etc that worsened over hours. And of course my legs did it with the arm at the same time. My dr put me on oral prednisone x 2 weeks. The total length I had the symptoms was 5 weeks. It was really bad x 6 days then slowly improved.

The Dr there said it was Optic Neuropathy, not optic neuritis (indicated that was the case mostly because pain onset was after vision loss). She upped my prednisone to 60mg daily for a month, followed by 10mg taper per month for next 5 months. In meantime, my CSF results have come back: http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Multiple-Sclerosis/Help-interpreting-CSF-results/show/1769612#post_8131824 So....if oligoclonal bands indicate possibility of MS....

10 mm T2/FLAIR hyperintense nodule seen in the peripheral medial left cerebellar cortex. No restricted diffusion. Intense homogeneous enhancement after contrast administration. No evidence of meningitis, no evidence of abnormal cortical enhancement or hydrocephalus. CSF clear. 12 red blood cells. 14 lymphocytes (elevated). Protein 0.27 (normal). Glucose 3.91. CSF albumin 111 (not elevated). CSF IGG 42.7 (elevated). IGG index 1.57 (indicative of locally produced IGG). Oligoclonal bands present.

I was diagnosed with MS due to the eye pain and blurred vision via an MRI, Optic Neurtis. Did the 3 days of Solu-Medrol and I had NO improvement. Had my last IV dose 9 days ago, no taper. I have read that most people have immediate improvement. Can anyone help? Was diagnosed 2 weeks ago and I am still a mess over this. Was laid up in bed for 6 days due to the spinal headache and failed blood patch.

I am new to this forum, so not exactly sure how this works. I have had MS for 30 years, been on Copaxone for 8 years and haven't had problems until this Spring. I had a horrible cold, sinus drainage, etc. that would not go away. Dr. gave me antibiotics, didn't help. Then he gave another antibiotic, felt a little better, but still not well. Had a fever for over a month too. Finally I saw a different Dr. and she sent me for a CAT scan that day, I had TOTAL opacification in my sinus.

t know what else could cause bulbar optic neuritis, weakness, unstable gait to where I have to use at least a cane, painful spasticity and numbness from my toes to my waist. He decided to check me for Leber's Heriditary Optic Neuropathy and yes that may explain the vision problems but not all this other stuff. Still waiting on those results. But they have decided to put me in an experimental drug program for Fingolimod.

t see the near or the far things clearly, so i went directly to the ophthalmologist, he checked for my eye and ask for florescence ray on the right eye( it has shown a normal angiogram), he checked and said that the retina is good and may be there is a retrobulbular optic neuritis !!

Long story somewhat short, I have had an MRI of brain/orbits/neck and another of C and T spine. All basically normal - no lesions, etc. Brain MRI only showed a slight enhancement of the optic nerve sheath. Only symptoms I've had thus far with vision. I was diagnosed by neurologist as having optic neuritis but the neuro-opthamologist I saw after her says its optic neuropathy. ??

She had to send me for an MRI which still really did not show anything wrong with my optic nerve but obviously I was having optic neuritis. She even diagnosed me in the office and sent me solu-medrol infusions that week.

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