It continues...

When I was discharged from the hospital, the doctor gave me a referral for an opthamologist.  I told him I already have one who understand neurological issues.

I want to digress for a moment so I can give a shout out to my various physicians. I have a great group of doctors.  They all look out for me and talk to me as if I can actually think. ( I was going to say that they treat me as if I have a brain that works, but clearly, my brain is not working all the way.  But the thinking part is still pretty intact , so I appreciate some acknowledgement of that.)

Anyway, the hospital doc gave me a referral to an opthamologist even though I told him I had one.  That opthamologist's office actually called me to schedule a follow-up.  Usually I would think this was nice, but when I said I had an appointment with my opthamologist, the lady acted sort of annoyed that she had wasted her time calling me. Some people...

My opthamologist, however, was great as usual.  My first neurologist actually referred me to him because  he understood optic neuritis which is something that happens in MS. I makes your optic nerve pale, which I totally don't understand, but I do  know that having a pale optic nerve makes  your vision wonky.

One of the reasons I was eager to see him, was because of the invisible hot poker being shoved in my eye. The poker feeling had happened at least six more times.  Once in a therapy session with a kid!  Dr. Stiles looked in my eye and said I had Iritis.  My iris was swollen!  How how on earth does that happen?  My neurologist had noticed that one of my pupils was smaller than the other, and he was worried that this was an MS brain involved thing, but Dr. Stiles said it was the swollen iris that was making my pupil appear smaller. How weird is that?!!

He also told me that the hot poker pain was actually caused by my iris having spasms. Thank goodness he knew what is was! However, he didn't have any advice about stopping it from happening.  I can honestly say that the spasm were the worst pain I have ever felt in my life.  They definitely trumped childbirth.  And I had a C-section!  Plus after the pain of childbirth, you actually get a child out of it.  Nothing good came from the spasms!

Basically,  Dr. Stiles said the spasm would stop when my iris got un-swollen and the anti-viral med should, well... un-swollen it.  He increased my run of the anti-virus med for two more weeks.  Although I had several  more spasm after that, the invisible hot poker man has finally left the building!

This saga continue, but I'm gonna make you wait some more