Optic Neuritis

If you possibly had a mild case of optic neuritis and was given oral prednisone and did not get to a eye doctor till over a month later, would the eye doctor be able to tell if you have had optic neuritis?

[Houman Vosoghi, MD]

Unlikely.  Depends on your age and whether there are any changes present on your optic nerve that would not be explained by any other condition for your age.  Unless you have a high resolution MRI from that episode that the eye doctor could review, would be very difficult to tell a month later if your vision is already back to normal.  They could make an educated guess as to what happened.

HV