Does this read like MS?

New diagnosis and before diagnosis
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Hi, 36 yo mother of two. (2 year old and 6 month old). Since last Saturday my vision has been off. Right eye has central vision affected only. All periphery is fine. Went to optician asap who said everything was perfectly health and diagnosed migraine. GP said the same thing and gave me some antibiotics for sinus infection. Said it was triggered by stress and anxiety.

It is not gotten any better or worse! Rang moorfields who said I would need a GP referral. I have now worked myself into a state convincing myself it’s MS. My head has been on and off aching. But it’s the vision is really distressing me. Last night was my first decent night sleep in months as I took myself into the spare room. I openly admit I catastrophise events and am worse case scenario person.

My life has carried on as normal: dinners, cleaning, parenting.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? Or I am just someone who suffers from stress and anxiety? My face is all tingly today also.

Please help. I’m in a really dark dark place with two babies relying on me. It just doesn’t seem to be getting any better.

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Hi Emma, I would say that in general it’s far too early and you have too few symptoms to start worrying about MS.

My first symptoms were to do with my vision but very very strong symptoms- over the course of maybe 10 days I lost just about all my vision in my right eye. I remember looking at the flames in an open fire from about 3ft away. If I closed my left eye I couldn’t see the fire!

During my life I have had various problems with my sight including ‘migrainous’ ones and also ‘centro serous retinopathy ‘ which means that there are small areas of my vision which is distorted and/or massively reduced. The point being that many things can affect our vision !

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Thank you for taking the time to reply. I appreciate it.