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Originally Posted by lady_express_44
I had always believed this too, and have reserved the use of steroids for any eye or breathing problems. However, it doesn't seem that they are particularly helpful for ON, at least according to the attached links:
NMSS; steroids do not effect the course of the disease, and short and long-term effects of using them:
http://www.nationalmssociety.org/doc...nm_relapse.pdf
NMSS: people treated with oral steroids for ON did not do as well as those who didn't, and the use of them caused an increased risk of recurrence:
http://www.nationalmssociety.org/sit...ures_on_vision
Optic Neuritis Treatment trial results:
http://www.nei.nih.gov/neitrials/vie...Web.aspx?id=47
MX7, weren't they originally thinking it was some other kind of neuritis that was causing this? It sounds like they are waivering now (or is this a new specialist?), but have you researched the causes and whether steroids (or any other medications) might be helpful for the other kind of neuritis?
I think tkrik's idea about phoning the insurance company is a great one. How can they refuse a specialist that is recommended for eye care?? (Then again, I don't know the US medical system...)
Cherie |
Thank you for the links (I'll have to go back and read them fully in a bit.
Yes I thought it was ON from day 1 (Jan. 3rd) thats why I went to the ER and than to my neuro. Because I had a broken blood vessel in my eye the Dr.'s didn't think it was ON or even anything more than a broken blood vessel. Than when I saw the eye Dr. I told him about the trip to the ER and the neuro and he said that you can easily get a broken blood vessel if you are straining your eyes trying to see clearly (I had told him I sent most of the morning hold one eye closed and was trying to see if I really was having a hard time seeing out of my left eye
). The eye Dr. told me at that 1st visit he thought it was ON (or the ON that is the vessels behind the eye that were swollen) than when I when back and saw his wife (also eye Dr) to repeat the VF test she told me she thought it was ON also.