[legzzalot]

What exactly is the purpose of this test? It's the one where you stare at the little red dot in the middle of a checkerboard pattern and then the pattern starts changing and spinning? All the while you have electrodes glued to your head?


Took me 3 days to wash the glue out last time. I know it measures your brain function, but i am seeing spots in my left eye and getting jumpy vision on that side too. it's almost like when your eye twitches....except my eye isn't twitching. It doesn't hurt or anything and I can still see it's just annoying.

Found out yesterday the numbness from the same plaque as before, so something is aggrivating it. But anyways back to the eye, I have to go in again next week to do the Tv screen thing again.

[lady_express_44]

Visual Evoked Potentials . . .?

If you don't have infection, there is likely nothing "aggrevating" that spinal cord lesion. It's just "doin it's thing". Spinal cord lesions will run their course, with or without steriods . . . end of story.

Cherie

[legzzalot]

I am actually wondering if the sinus infection I have been fighting for the last week and a half is causing all of this. The doc thinks it might be causing the eye issue, but he is sending me in for more blood and urine testing before putting me on an antibiotic for the sinus thing.

[lady_express_44]

ABSOLUTELY, legz.

NEVER LEAVE INFECTION untreated when you have spinal cord lesions!!

That is how all of my TM attacks have started.

Now get in there and DEMAND antibiotics NOW if you are sure you have an infection . . . regardless of whether he "thinks" it could be causing problems. Trust me, it is!!

Cherie

[Erin524]

I agree with Cherie, dont screw around with infections. The doctor, if he's not your neuro, and hasnt had many MS patients, might not realize the seriousness of an MSer with an infection.

Do you have a fever? If you do, you might want to ask your doctor what to do to take care of that...(I know what to do, but it's practicing medicine without a license for anyone other than a doctor to suggest that you take anything for it, so ask your doctor. Sorry, my Medical Ethics class is being channeled thru me right now.)

[CayoKay]

Originally Posted by legzzalot

i am seeing spots in my left eye and getting jumpy vision on that side too. it's almost like when your eye twitches....except my eye isn't twitching. It doesn't hurt or anything and I can still see it's just annoying.

sounds like something I've had... that my neuro called nystagmus.

Nystagmus is rapid, involuntary movements of the eyes which is often unnoticeable to people with the complaint. To others it resembles the eye movements when someone is looking at the scenery from the window of a moving train. Usually it occurs in the horizontal plane but it can also affect the vertical.

Nystagmus can be caused by a variety of underlying conditions, including multiple sclerosis of which it is quite a common symptom.

http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/nystagmus.html