Today I had my bloodwork and VEP (or VER?) It was a lot more pleasant an experience than I thought it would be. Everyone at the hospital was very nice, and the bloodwork was quick and painless.

The doctor that administered the VEP was a real comedian, and he had a student about my own age attach the electrodes.

I sort of inferred that he could interpret the test results immediately, and when I asked him if he could, he said yes, but my Neuro had requested that he get the test results and tell me in person. I was a little upset about that, because it seemed unnecessary when I could know the results of the VEP right now.

The hospital I had my MRI at never sent my results to the neuro either. He suggested that I might have retinal migraines, but I've done a bit of reading on them, and apparently there is a headache involved in a retinal migraine, and the visual symptoms last hours, not weeks. On paper, the official diagnoses is optic neuritis.

I guess I'm wondering what it all means. Is it possible that I had two isolated incidences of ON and nothing is wrong at all? And what about my memory?

The neuro wants me to see another eye specialist at the same place I was diagnosed with the first incidence of ON on Friday. He said if my other doctor questioned me, to tell him my neuro referred me to the new doctor.

I know my neuro is a smart guy with a good reputation in the medical community, but I don't think he really has any idea what's going on. He told me he thinks I might be depressed after seeing me one time. I wasn't even acting depressed. At most, maybe a little nervous, but I wasn't acting unusual. I just feel like the guy didn't even listen to me.

I'll keep you all updated