Had a cold for a couple of weeks, nothing major but it has knocked the MS all to pot, mainly mobility and fatigue.
however, in the last few days, my eyes have gone wacky - double vision, blurred vision and then when I look to the right, the whole world starts spinning. It’s difficult to focus or concentrate on anything. Balance and coordination even worse than normal.
I feel like I’m very drunk and very hungover at the same time.
Sounds like optic neuritis which thankfully I have only had once before which was over 10 years ago.
It does sound like ON. And possibly a relapse? Are you someone who takes steroids with a relapse or avoids them like the plague? As far as I remember it, ON normally responds quite well to steroids. If you feel they are necessary, you should probably get the ball rolling now, given the upcoming holiday (someone told me all the GPs are getting a few days off, don’t know why!)
Meanwhile, you have enormous amounts of sympathy. Screwy eyes are horrible.
You may not have ON, Derek, but a combination of Diplopia (double vision), and Nystagmus.
In the first, when you look at something (say the TV) your eyes get two images slightly displaced on the retinae.
This is frequent with MS, and can be the muscles that move the eyes and the muscles that focus the eyes, and the nerves that control the muscles.
With Nystagmus, the eyes do not track smoothly from side to side, but flutter a tiny bit.
With either, the brain has to fuse two different images into a single picture - and if it has trouble doing this, you will feel dizzy.
ON can be seen on an MRI (by an expert), but any competent Optometrist can diagnose the other two.
Get thee to a good optician, and have an eye-test. If it looks like ON, they can start the ball rolling on an MRI.