Optic nerve problem

Posted By LTK on July 29, 1997 at 19:26:47:









I am being treated for "probable MS". I wrote a while back asking about migraines
that I was having. I had 24 in the course of about 5 months, & they seem to have
stopped. I am now noticing a vision problem. I am very nearsighted, wear contacts,
& my vision has not changed since 1974. Around halfway through the migraines, I began
to feel that, sometimes, I had my lenses in the wrong eye...my left eye just didn't
want to focus properly. My present neurologist sent me to a neurologist at U of
Michigan (mainly for another opinion on the migraines I'd been having), & she is the
one who noticed that my left pupil was not reacting to light correctly. She suggested
I see an ophthalmologist, which I did. Visual Field tests came back alright, eye
pressure was ok, & while the doctor didn't see evidence of "classic optic neuritis",
he did say that, when switching a penlight from one eye to another & back again,
the pupil of the left eye reacted abnormally. I am going back in a couple weeks for
a regular vision test, but in the meantime, I am curious about this problem
with my left optic nerve. I realize I haven't given you a lot of details, but that
is all I was told. Pardon the pun, but could you shed any "light" on what could be
causing this problem? And, what if anything, can be done about it?
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