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optic discs?

well iv had bad dizziness for around a year and half alot with fatigue,headache,blind spots and black spots,quite a few more that i carnt think of atm,well i saw a neurologist and he wants me to have a mri scan,when he wrote to my doctor he said that when he checked me over "there was no focal neurological signs throughtout the nervous system but the optic discs are not entirely clear" so what does this mean exactly? optic discs are not clear?
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that's weird because my auntie whos around 47 has just been diagnosed with ms,shes really ill tho so i hope its not that.so optic discs are to do with ms only then? or different problems,allso why would my optician pick that up when i had a eye test?
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Hi there. Your multiple neurological symptoms are suggestive of multiple sclerosis. You could be suffering from migraines with aura. Visual symptoms are common with migraines like blurring of vision or eye floaters. The other possibility is of multiple sclerosis since there are other neurological symptoms like weakness right arm and numbness on right side of face and head. Multiple sclerosis is a chronic demyelinating neurological disorder where the disease phase is characterized by active phase and remissions. It has multiple symptoms and signs and is a diagnosis of exclusion. The symptoms of multiple sclerosis are loss of balance, muscle spasms, numbness in any area, problems with walking and coordination, tremors in one or more arms and legs. Bowel and bladder symptoms include frequency of micturition, urine leakage, eye symptoms like double vision uncontrollable rapid eye movements, facial pain, painful muscle spasms, tingling, burning in arms or legs, depression, dizziness, hearing loss, fatigue etc. You have many of these symptoms. The treatment is essentially limited to symptomatic therapy so the course of action would not change much whether MS has been diagnosed or not. Apart from clinical neurological examination, MRI shows MS as paler areas of demyelination, two different episodes of demyelination separated by one month in at least two different brain locations. Spinal tap is done and CSF electrophoresis reveals oligoclonal bands suggestive of immune activity, which is suggestive but not diagnostic of MS. Demyelinating neurons, transmit nerve signals slower than non-demyelinated ones and can be detected with EP tests. These are visual evoked potentials, brain stem auditory evoked response, and somatosensory evoked potential. Slower nerve responses in any one of these is not confirmatory of MS but can be used to complement diagnosis along with a neurological examination, medical history and an MRI and a spinal tap. Therefore, it would be prudent to consult your neurologist with these concerns. Take care
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