A New Diagnostic Tool on the Horizon
 

This sure would be a lot easier and more comfortable than 90 minute MRIs...if it proves to help monitor MS progression as they claim.

Simple eye scan can reveal extent of Multiple Sclerosis
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20836082

With love, Erika

Not so new. Been around awhile. Dr. Calibresi (Head of Johns Hopkins MS Center) has been working with it for years. He DXed me in 02 at UMM. A neurologist at JH scanned me but seems PPMSers are not good for this technology. He moved away. My current neurologist at JH is involved in ON and eye scanners, but not the technology for me. Good doctors, but nothing they can do for me. Went to a neurological ophthalmologist way back when looking for answers. He said "I can't cure you, but I can do magic tricks for you" and he did.

Yeah I have gotten one for the past few years. My MS specialist who also worked on that project seemed to feel it has a while to go but might be a helpful and very tolerable monitoring tool.

No golden bullet but as far as I'm concerned with every step forward or even every experiment that turns out to be a bust hopefully they are getting closer to being able to help us.

The "color blind test" was used a lot during the time that I was diagnosed. Not the primary diagnosing tool, but it was considered significant by an opthalmologist I went to for glasses.
He found that I had nearly total color blindness on his test. (I didn't notice the color blindedness in real life because most colors in the world are actually stronger and more discrete than those on the test. And actually I was used to not seeing bright colors as bright.) He said that this was significant for MS. (I had not yet been dx'd with MS and was not dx'd until I had an MRI and VER later). I asked him specifically what his test indicated for me and he said it was possible MS.

I think my color blindedness receded over the years. Because I think I do see colors well now. It's subjective, though.

My eyes have gone through many changes. They were nearly perfect during the long period after the ON cleared up completely. The smoke from a forest fire damaged them, and this damage was repeated ten years later in another forest fire, but I mostly recovered from these assaults. During the fires and afterwards for a few months I had periods of near blindness when my eyes went into spasm.