Vision goes down and up a little, just to be sure the inflammation in the eye has not returned: back to Urgencias 🙄.
This time a doctor at urgencias who seems to be more experienced with eyes, she looked into the eye herself, and said there was no inflammation, and she would call Oftalmologia. She spoke with one of them, and said: you have chronic optic neuritis, you are on Nurane, capsules with ginkgo leaf extract + magnesium, which has vasodilatory properties to stimulate nerve repair, it is well possible what you experience is due to Nurane. There will be good and there will be worse days.
Well, the good news is that there is no inflammation, but the "chronic" bit is really not good news. New appointment with Oftalmologia for revision, OCT scan and field of vision. The OCT scan shows that indeed part of the optic nerve is no longer functioning. This means 40% of vision in the left eye has gone, and won't come back. General vision is still ok, as the missing bits are missing, they are not colored or flashing, and missing bits are filled in from the right eye. However, at the moment this condition is tiring, as it sort of feels like you have new glasses with a strong reading part. And, reading with only the left eye is not possible any more.
Read a fellow patient idea: close your eyes, and sit in the sun. It helped her. Who knows.
(ON stands for Optic Neuritis.)
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