You are so fortunate to have had a great ophthalmologist! I had lazor surgery on my right eye due to retnal hystoplasmosis when I was seventeen, which resulted in center vision loss in that eye. After that I followed up with him every two years. When I was in my 20s I started to have failing vision in my good eye. He couldn't detect anything in his exams. But I was getting wavy lines on the grid test and gray spots that were not always in the same spot.

Finally, in my late twenties he looked at my grid test that the nurse had given me....then told me, "You know everytime you are in here you have something different on this test. You should quit worrying about nothing and be thankful.A lot of people would be happy to have your vision." That really upset me, and I just wanted to crawl under a chair. So of course my solution was to just not go back.

Well, looking back, now I know that it was the ms. I was having other sx but just ignored them....such as balance issues, numbness on and off, etc. . I feel like the eye surgeon should have took me more seriously and ask a few questions. As it turned out I was not dx until I was in my upper 40s. I could have been on medication for a lot of years and not been progressed as far as I am.

I had a family doctor who should have known to check me for ms. But he just patted me on the back and chalked my sx up to being a worrying mother. And I believed him. It wasn't until I was feeling so bad I wanted to just die that I switched to a different medical system that I had a doctor that had me being tested for ms within the week of my first appointment.

So I am glad you didn't have to go through that!