My doctor said mine was no longer swollen about a month ago. But the lower side of my eye is still dark and I am worry it will affect the upper half of my eye.
I'm not sure about this, but I think the chances of vision worsening in the affected eye is while the optic nerve is still swollen.? I believe that is what happened to me - without being forewarned that the optic nerve was still swollen.? I discovered that it was still swollen after going from having lost only the bottom half of vision in my right eye to losing all acuity within less than two weeks.? Upon being first diagnosed, I knew nothing about NAION.
My non-medical, case of one experience is that flying in a pressurized aircraft wasn¡¯t a problem for me.? Also anecdotal is that I had shingles prior to NAION and even was diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia prior to NAION.? The same virus causes both. I¡¯m not sure if the trigeminal neuralgia was misdiagnosed or is in some kind of remission but I haven¡¯t had any attacks since the first several knee buckling weeks of searing pain in my left jaw. The shingles was on my left upper torso and NAION in my left eye.?
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Diane Keasler
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