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About to go crazy with these eyes

deleted_user
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I dont know about any of you all that has had the vision problems but i am bout to go crazy in this house tired of not being able to drive and seems like one day it seems better and next day it is worse ready for it to go away. Going on almost 4 weeks now and already had the steroids oral and IV ready to give up
sunshine521
sunshine521
I haven't had eye troubles but I have had friends say that it can take up to 6 weeks to get it back sometimes.

Sorry I couldn't help anymore but I just wanted to say Hang in there and please dont give up!!!
"THIS TOO SHALL PASS"
Take care,
Michelle
Eloise
Eloise
My eyes didn't really act up until after the IV steroids. About four days after the last steroid dose, my vision would become dim and it was hard to see things in sharp focus unless I got really close. This went on for around a week or so--it would come and go, sometimes staying for just a few minutes, sometimes for several hours. The really weird part about it was that I could feel it coming on. I would get this weird feeling in my head and suddenly my vision was cloudy again. Along with the visual problem was fatigue. My fatigue became almost debilitating during the time.

As it turned out, I lost a little of the vision in my left eye. I don't know for sure if it was caused by the MS, but I have a feeling it was. Fortunately, new glasses fixed the problem.

I haven't really been bothered with the visual problems since the episodes shortly after the steroid infusions.
deleted_user
deleted_user
It took a few months for me to get some of my vision back. I had oral and IV steroids. I still am pretty much blind in my right eye. In the last 2 years I have done about 5 large doses of the "roids". I've learned to adapt and overcome my vision issues. For awhile I had double vision in my 1/2 blind right eye, but since I started tsybri I dont have that issue anymore. Hope all goes well with you!!
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