All this sound so familular to me. The eye pain especially when you move your eyes, grayed out vision, double vision, pale colors, bright flashes, and blank spots. I had a bad bout of this last year, but it took 8 months to get a doctor to give me a referral to see an ophto. By then it had improved quite a bit, but did show up as a 30% loss of preception of red, slight loss of visual field, with an increased blind spot and neuromuscular double vision and minor nerve fiber loss

Diangnosis? None. He did say it was a slight event but couldn't claim a neuritis event, cannot rule out MS, but claims no evidence of this, contiue to observe for this.

Too bad they wouldn't let me see an eye doctor until 8 months later. HMO's suck.

My eye doctor (regular) has been baffeled for years as to why my vision changes back and forth so quickly, it gets expensive having to have glasses remade. I was surprised to hear that others have had these type of vision changes. I've had 2 normal, I am told, VEP's, of course always when I am not having eye problems.

Monday I had the grayed out dim, little color vision in my right eye, but it only lasted for about 2 hours, and yesterday for about 15 minutes. This happens to me quite often. Ah but never when I am near an eye doctor or any other doctor for that matter.

I doubt that the doctors believe me. It's kind of like metorites they happen, but you if you walk out side and look at the sky, what are the chances you are going to see one? But does that mean they don't exsist?

Pat

My advice to anyone experiencing eye problems....try your best to get to see a NEUROopthamologist. They should be able to detect activity whether it is actually syptomatic or not.

My quick story......2 years ago I got a blind spot in the center of my vision in my left eye. This was a Friday night, it got worse, and by Sunday, I was off to the emergency room. Luckily for me the Doctor immediately brought in an opthamologist who in turn immediately directed me to see a Neuro-opthamologist. With this came an immediate diagnosis of ON and an IV treatment. And within a couple weeks, a diagnosis of RRMS. The neuro obviously found the ON in my left eye that was occuring, but he also said that he saw that I had nerve fiber damage in my right eye, meaning I had an attack but obviously it was not bad enough to produce symptoms.

I've been a lurker here for some time, but just wanted to briefly share my experience and encourage everyone to see a neuro-opth...if at all possible.

Hi DH, and welcome to the board!

Cherie

DH17, I have no neuro/ophtho in my system, and with a HMO you have to get a referral from your PCP, if he feels it's necessary then he will submit it to get aproval, then the insurance desides if you can. If you go to the ER and they don't admit you they send you a bill and a warning for ER abuse. Happened to me twice now.

Pat