This Is MS Multiple Sclerosis Community: Knowledge & Support

I was wondering if my good eye could be straining itself since my ON eye has such bad vision. Sometimes especially late in the day and especially in poor lighting, I don't feel like I'm seeing as well as I should be and I get worried about my eyes. I also really only notice it at a distance but this is a recent development so I'm worried that my good eye will start to go bad as well. I've had minor headaches off and on for about a week and a half but my good eye and behind it has felt fine. I'm going to call the doctor tomorrow(hopefully someone is in) and I was wondering what you guys thought they would tell me or if they'd Rx me some type of steroid or something. I have dexamethasone that I'm tempted to self-rx myself.

Also for the future will my good eye get worse from compensating for my bad eye?

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I read somewhere that even if you get steroids during an attack it doesn't do anything but make the symptoms clear up faster and doesn't prevent further damage. Is that true?

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If I remember correctly, corticosteroids such as prednisone induce white blood cells to undergo apoptosis, i.e., programmed cell death. Thus, by causing a majority of a patient's white cells to die off, the inflammatory damage induced by those white cells should cease thereby shortening an attack. What I don't specifically know is if there might be a neurodegenerative process that is triggered by the inflammatory cascade which continues even though the inflammation has ceased.

NHE