Hello bny806 -

I am sorry you are in limbo and having eye pain.

For me, optic neuritis was a sharp pain in the R eye. It went away only if I kept the eye totally still. This is nearly impossible as the eyes work together so just patching the eye doesn't work. At times, all of my effort was finding a place to rest my vision where my eye did not hurt badly.

At the same time, I lost a small field of central vision- I measured in w a newspaper- 6 letters of news type.

The entire thing lasted approx. 6 weeks. I do not remember a separate headache.

Best to you,
ANN