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Originally Posted by Bearygood
Erin, I believed I had recovered from my ON probably around October (onset was March of '07). My neuro-op follow-up in December showed perfect visual field and although the colors weren't all that easy, I could still get them. (I know I have some residual color saturation loss but it's not bad -- nothing obvious.) So, this follow-up of the optics was a surprise to me. But now I know WHY the radiologist called me last Saturday. Obviously, CLINICALLY speaking, my eye is not 100% better. Very interesting to hear you had marked improvement after a year. What you're saying seems to support the findings in my MRI and what my neuro-op said. If she's right, the MRI should eventually look normal (or very close to it) and perhaps there's STILL room for improvement for me! (My eye feels a little funky from time to time but I am just so happy that my vision is back that I've kind of accepted it!)
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I never thought I would get any improvement. After about a month or two. (my ON started late august 2006) I still had blind spots. In January of 2007 when I got diagnosed with MS, I still had dim vision in that eye.
When I would go to the yarn store, and ask strangers to tell me what color yarn I was holding, and did it match with the other color I was holding, they'd look at me funny. Like I was nuts (or new at buy yarn or something) That made me a bit sad. I was starting to think I would lose all of my color vision. Since you use both eyes work together to see, colors in the good eye didnt look quite right either to me.
I quit going to the yarn stores for a bit, since none of the yarn colors were appealing to me anymore. Used up a lot of my scrap stash (and I had a huge stash) When my eye started to improve a lot last fall, I went back to the yarn store (the expensive yarn store, I wanted to splurge a bit) I walked in, and knew the color vision was really improving. I was a kid in a candy store (or a crochet/knitter in a yarn shop) I had a blast going thru the green yarns (one of my favorite colors and the color I was having the most problems with other than red)
That was one of my big fears about the ON. That I was going to lose my vision and not be able to crochet ever again. Now I've been practicing crocheting with my eyes closed, and I kept up with the knitting (learned a couple days before the ON hit) and now I can knit garter stitch with my eyes closed for several rows, and I can crochet by feel.
Now if I get another ON and it does too much damage to my eyes, I'll at least be able to keep myself somewhat sane by crocheting or knitting...