I can see!!!

My right eye has had optic neuritis since February of this year, but I didnt start having vision problems with it until late April, early May. I just had eye pain on moving the eye before that.

I had some improvement the other day, but it went away when I went to a grocery store that had fluorescent lights that could vaporize small animals that get too close.

It's still not as good as it could be, and colors arent quite as vivid as they are in the other eye. But, it's really good improvement! I can actually read the text on the page and it doesnt seem like there's much difference between this eye and the other one.

I hope this lasts more than a day this time. I'm excited! Almost afraid to go to bed because I'm scared it'll be back to the crappy vision in the morning.

I hate any reflecting lights whatsoever. I have had optic neuritis but regular eye doctor never caught it.Well sometimes it gets better but still have leftover symptoms.So now can't drive because during the day the sun is my enemy at night anything reflective is.Hugs I really hope yours clears up completely.

Improvement!!!

That is great news indeed!

I am happy you are seeing improvements. way to go!

Good news indeed! Now keep it up!

Erin that is awesome! I hope it continues to improve. It is such a wonderful feeling when we realize that something has improved. I am so happy and excited for you.

Erin, good for you! It takes time. My "breakthrough" probably didn't happen until about 6 months and I was still seeing improvement after a whole year! In terms of acuity, color is usually the last thing to return. My neuro-ophthalmologist told me it's like hitting the rewind button -- it comes and then goes in the reverse way that it all came on. It was like that for me to a 'T'!

Yay Erin
So glad to hear a bit of good news from you. I hope it continues.

Great news Erin. Hope that you go on and on improving.

It's wonderful to hear news like this.

I can feel the glow of the big smile on your face.

Jappy

So far so good. I think it's still improving. At least it's been staying at a constant since I noticed that it had improved.

I did notice earlier this week that everytime I've been in a certain grocery store, that things would look worse. So, yesterday, after I'd noticed that things were looking pretty good (literally) thru my eye. I wore sunglasses (at night) in the grocery store when we went there last night to pick some stuff up.

People gave me weird looks because I was wearing my sunglasses inside. (it was 10pm) But at least no one made any coments to me. After I left the store and had taken off the sunglasses, I was happy that it seemed like the glasses made the difference. I think some of the fluorescent light got past the sunglasses because for about 10 minutes after I left the store, my eye felt the tiniest bit strange, but no where near what it felt like earlier in the week when I went in there.

This morning, there's less fuzziness in my vision. It's not blurred, but colors are still a bit strange, but the color weirdness is nowhere near the problem I had the first time I got ON in my other eye.

It just feels so much better than it did a few weeks ago. I hope this is the back end of this latest bit of ON, and that it'll go away for a long time now and not come back to bother me anymore.

I still cant decide which is worse. Crappy vision problems, or annoying numbness problems. (btw, I'm not numb this week either...yay! well, except for my baby toe on the right foot...but other than that things are great!)


I'm still a little scared that now that the vision is clearing up, something worse is going to come along and torture me for the next 6 months.