Get a red object, look at it with one eye and then the other...do you see a marked difference in the red? If you have not seen an Optho/Neuro yet, that's a good place to start for the dx of ON.

Someone here who has had ON could add more to this.... FWIW, I did not get a dx of ON, even with the color change. More of a base line for me.

Thank you.
OK, found a red tee-shirt, both eyes it just red, bad eye covered it's bright red, good eye covered it's almost brick red.
I told my neuro about my eye and he looked at both of them with just a little flash light and said the pupils looked fine. ER Dr did and said the same. But I didn't tell ether one about the color difference because I didn't know I had one until now but DID tell them both about the vision loss.

Opthomologist Neurologists will conduct many tests and also dialate your eyes. He will spend alot of time examining, looking deep inside, not just a quick scan in a minute or two.

I think I heard that with ON the red will begin to turn gray (???? I THINK).... so brick red...is that a graying you see? Your eyes are probably the most important things....so this is one doctor, IMHO, that is worth a visit. Plus...he's also a neurologist...there's that second opinion! Take your MRI with you! (Brain)

Really, the important thing in my opinion, is to check everything out with specialists. Going to a regular eye doctor won't do what you need to have done. Good luck

An opthamologist or neuropthamologist should be able to see any previous damage that was done if you have had ON. Even if your vision returns completely, there is usually still evidence of damage no matter how long ago it was.

Red doesnt always get grayed out. It did gray out for me with my first case of ON (left eye), but apparently my second case of ON (right eye) has done some other weirdness.

In the second case of ON, red looked a lot lighter than it should have. Not as vivid as it should have been. My opthalmologist said that he bet if I had an MRI the optic nerve would be showing an obvious case of ON in the right side. (not always true, I had a flaming case of ON in the left eye the year before and the MRI didnt see it)

i still think you should see an opthamologist.
any vision problems should be checked out further.
if you've had or con't to have an inflammed optic nerve (ON) the dr should be able to tell.

however, even if it's not ON that fact that you have visual disturbances is worthy of a checkup by an eye dr, IMHO.

Oh I agree. Thank you.

Thank all so much, I guess I'll be trying to find an opthamologist tomorrow.