Your visual loss occurs progressively over days to weeks. It does not require steroids for treatment. Atypical optic neuritis: the cause may be multiple sclerosis or other causes. It typically ...
Naismith et al. state that they preferentially recruited patients with severe optic neuritis (with ≤20/200 vision) and poor recovery (to <20/40 vision).This bias in selecting study participants ...
Demyelinating optic neuritis (DON) is a hallmark feature of ... and can be quite visually disabling. It may respond to treatment with memantine or gabapentin. Isolated CN VI palsies (from ...
Optic neuritis occurs because of swelling in or around the optic nerve. For those with MS-related optic neuritis, the swelling subsides on its own, and vision usually recovers.