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Originally Posted by Lady
Erin it seems you do get many of the odd MS symptoms. If your eye in involved maybe check with the eye doctor. It might be an infection or another problem. I Hope it all goes away.  |
I went to the eye doctor today. He told me that my eyes are in great shape. With correction I have 20/20 vision. (wow!) Also said my optic nerves look perfectly healthy for someone who's had a couple of episodes of optic neuritis. Said not many people who've had ON get that kind of improvement. Hope I get to hold onto that for awhile!
Only thing he told me to do different with my eyes was to buy this ointment (over the counter stuff) to put on my numb eye when I sleep so that my eye wont dry out and scratch up my cornea while I'm asleep. (sometimes with numbness, apparently your eye can open up while you're asleep without you knowing about it)
I need to go to the pharmacy tomorrow and get the ointment. We were having a huge thunderstorm earlier with baseball sized hail (most of it was pea, but there were a few odd baseballs falling down), so I decided I could wait on buying the eye goo.
I've noticed that I seem to get the freakishly bizarre symptoms. That figures that I'd get the freaky form of MS. The one that makes people look at you and go "What?!?" when you describe your symptoms to them...and then they look at you with a hairy eyeball every time they see you after that.
It makes me think that I must have some seriously twisted MS trolls in my head that have some sadistic streak in what symptoms they throw at me.
I found out over the weekend that the steroids I threw at the flare that I've been arguing with all summer seems to be doing something to my hair. I've had hair everywhere on the floor whenever I wash it, and the guy who's been cutting my hair since I was 9yrs old told me that he's saw a change in my hair from the last time I saw him. (saw him in April about 2wks before my flare hit me)
Either the steroids damaged my hair, or the numbness that's currently affecting my scalp is doing something to it. (I think it's the 'roids, personally)
So, not only is the MS causing me to be uncomfortable and driving me nuts, the medications that I've used to make the symptoms back off is now screwing up my hair.
Not cool!