anyone else?

im having visual migraines, and its horrible. Have you ever been out in the bright sun and come inside? you cant see! thats what happens to me IN the house! I try to read, and the vision splits, or goes fuzzy.

I am told that loads of MS people have this happen. Tell me about YOUR visual issues. Do you have any of this? it comes and goes and sometimes stays for a while, but clearly my optic nerve is damaged and not happy.

makes me wonder how many sighted days I have in me.

I'm sorry, visual symptoms are so hard to deal with!

I have had continual double vision for over a year now. For the last few months I have been having episodes where my vision goes completely out of focus. It only last a few seconds but I can't see any details of anything during that time. I can't drive anymore because of it. Everything also looks like I'm wearing sunglasses on my right eye, but not too bad. I have a big circle off to the right in the vision in my right eye that looks almost completely black. When looking forward I cannot see anything that is closer that two feet from my feet (many foot injuries have happened because of this). When anything around me is moving or I am moving I can't focus on what it is, I have to stop and try hard to make it clear, and now when reading I can't just move my eyes along and read at normal speed, I have to focus on about two words then move on.

It is very scary to think of losing my vision. So I try not to! Seriously though, I'm sorry you're having trouble. I hope it gets better for you!

My vision likes to go blurry quite often. I havent lost color yet, thank goodness. I get alot of pain in my eyes and sometimes I get pins and needles feeling in my eyes also. OUCH!! I haven't done anything for it, like ivsm or anything, I just deal with it til its gone.

Feel better Dej..

I too get eye pain either throbbing or stinging which lasts only seconds. My eyes get blurry when I'm outside in heat, but clear up when I go inside. The brightness just all around bothers me...like the backlight on my laptop. In all my MRI's my optic nerve has always been ok. This blurry thing is weird though.

I've had vision problems since the first round of ON in 1978. Another severe bout of it ten years later left a blacked out blind area in the left eye's visual field that the right eye usually is able to compensate. The left eye vision is also dimmer than the right.

Transient symptoms that last anywhere from a few minutes to days are blurry vision, focus fading in and out, extreme blurred vision up close, light sensitivity, left eye pain, delayed focus when looking from one thing to another, delayed ability to see anything when going from bright to darker areas, loss of peripheral vision and slowness in eye movement.

Headaches are common for me when the eyes are bad as is dizziness/light headedness and these symptoms appear before the visual disturbances; so that can be relied upon to let me know not to do anything that requires good vision like driving.

Increasing font size on the computer helps ease eye strain but when things are really not going well with the eyes, reading/writing or doing anything that requires visual focus like driving is off the schedule until things improve. Even entering numbers onto any sort of touch pad, like a phone or debit machine, are too hard at times like that.

It is unsettling when visual problems hang around for longer than a day or two, because it brings unwanted thoughts about it not getting better. It makes me feel so badly and sad for those who have had their symptoms progress beyond the hope of it getting better...and who live only with the hope that the symptoms do not get worse.

MS is like living with a thief in the night. It silently steals away what most take for granted; and vision seems to be a common target.

For several weeks I too have been having eye trouble, which is partly due to heat and very bright sun, but also due to toxic smoke from forest fires. We now have two closer fires burning only ten miles from here, and lots of smoke, so I am inside with a filter most of the time.

A year ago I was evacuated, as was most of the town, because of fire and smoke threat.
It may happen again. Living here may become impossible.

I recovered pretty well from last summer's onslaught, but eye remained weaker.

My symptoms are mostly what I think may be nystagmus, eyes moving L and R, and up and down, and even seeming to go clear out of my upper field of vision. Very painful, feels like a spasm. I am not having double vision at this time, as I did in my optic neuritis bout decades ago. Just fizzy vision and light sensitivity so that using the computer is a marginal process...have to ration time on the computer.

Yes, light is part of the problem, and I wear a Solumbra hat when going out, plus dark glasses, and have tinted windows in the car, which is necessary because of living in a sunny climate. I also wrap my neck and head in a Solumbra scarf, from Sun Precautions. But just the heat we are having now, apart from the light, is getting to me.