My father has optic neuritis with full vision loss in left eye and partial loss in right
My father has optic neuritis with full vision loss in left eye and partial loss in right
He is 60 with diabetes, hypertension and has end stage kidney disease and is on hemo-dialysis. He is currently on remicaid injection every 6 weeks and very low dose cortico-steroids (5mg).
We wanted to know if you are someone or know someone with similar conditions. We wanted to ask about your experiences and any updates that you may have in addition to any prognoses. We would greatly appreciate your help.
Re: My father has optic neuritis with full vision loss in left eye and partial loss in right
What you have described is very difficult. Sarcoidosis can present with lesions and spinal fluid tests can be very difficult to distinguish from MS results. Your father has many complications that aren't specific to MS. How they are being treated probably takes priority to treating the ON. "Auto-immune optic neuritis" is actually a very vague term. Usually, it's -
Optic Neuritis,
or isolated ON,
or chronic ON,
or occular inflammation,
or demyelination of the optic chasm, optic tracts or optic radiations
or Higher cortical visual disfunction.
My guess, is your father's doctor may not be sure so he has given it an umbrella term. That might be as good as you will get. (sorry). Finding out which it is may be too stressful on your father.
There can be a lot of different lesions causing injury or palsies. There might be one or it might be many involved in this. There may be no lesion at all.
An important question is whether the loss of vision is painful. It can be but it might not be. I would try to determine that.
If the motor function of the eye is affected, they can offer some anti-inflammatory medications.
However, your father's late stage kidney disease is a major problem, as many medications can put too much stress on that organ.
This is very difficult and your doctor has probably considered all this, even if he hasn't discussed it with you.
Sorry I can't be more helpful.
Regards,
Re: My father has optic neuritis with full vision loss in left eye and partial loss in right
Re: My father has optic neuritis with full vision loss in left eye and partial loss in right
I'm not sure where else you can look. A lot of universities have online access to research through their libraries but you need to be a student or similar to access them. Text books tend to be obscure and only discuss ON as a side issue.
His doctor has to balance all those comorbidities. Sometimes ON resolves without a clear reason why. Lack of really obvious causes is probably a good thing in this case. It's probably just going to turn on how much success his doctor has treating his other problems.
Thankfully he does not have pain associated with this.
I hope things go well for him.
Regards,
Re: My father has optic neuritis with full vision loss in left eye and partial loss in right
If you have a university near you, then sometimes you can just go to their library and save journal articles to a USB flash drive and then print them out at home.
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