OPTIC NEURITIS SYMPTOM?

[sandie490]

Hey Everyone!

I'm not dxed yet.  Question. Does ON always start with blurry vision, or extreme eye pain. Or can it start with mild eye pain.  I have been having eye twitching for almost a year. then I started about 2 months ago getting a sort of weakness with my lid. It's hard to open and keep it open.  Sometimes it will last for days and then ease up.  When I wake up I can't seem to see through my whole eye.  Now I have a small dull ache in the corners or top and bottom of eye when I move it or look sideways or up or down.  No blurryness, but I just filled a new precriptions for glasses, and I feel like they aren't strong enough  already, like I have to keep focusing to see something.  Does this sound like anything to do with ms.
My sister was diagnosed a few months back and told me I need to be checked.  She had the full  ON come on all of the sudden. within a week, with the blurry vision.  But she told me she remembers having trouble focusing with her sight.  Anyway, tell me what you think?  Sandie

[Sarahsmom46]

Some people get ON and never even know it because the symptoms can be that mild.  But, typically you have the severe pain at some point during a bout of ON and the blurriness.  

Your sisters case sounds more classic textbook, but remember that everyone can have a different experience and symptoms so best thing you can do is take your sister's advice and go see an opthamologist for an evaluation.  

Julie

[scaredguy309]

Hey, there is nothing specific about ms. Symptoms vary in both type and intensitiy so get checked out.