Day 43: Bell's Palsy on Pause

I just had to say bump it. I'm on vacation and to worrying about it. It's there, yes I am still patching up my eye at night. Yes I am still doing my facial massages. But I'm just letting it go. I still have that other eye issue but whatever. Next week I know I'll have to go back to appointment after appointment.

So, unless something goes wrong I'm going to take a vacation from this as well. See ya'll next week.

Day 41: Old School Neurologist

Man, this man had to be the most old school doctor that I've ever gone to. I won't even get into how ancient I thought his office looked but yeah, we had a consultation and an exam. I THOUGHT I was supposed to be having the VER (Visually Evoked Response) test done but we didn't do that. We did something, lol, but that wasn't it. He talked to me about a few things. He mentioned how the Number 7 nerve runs across above the eyes and below the lips and that the optical nerve gets its signal from both sides. He also talked about the Multiple Sclerosis and how I'd have to have lesions on my brain to have it. So, he sent me for more blood work and another MRI so that he could go over it with the radiologist. He also wants me to get the results from my last MRI.
From all of that, he basically said he thinks it could be Optical Neuritis. So that's where we are things right now. Next week, more appointments.

Day 40: Back to the Eye Doctor

So, since this blog has morphed into something more than just being about Bell's Palsy, let me tell you know about my most recent appointment with the Ophthalmologist. Well, this was for me to have the Visual Field done (a test of the peripheral vision) and a recap of what the Retina Specialist did NOT find. I had the Visual Field done first. This was quite interesting but I had to look through a 'lens' at a yellow dot and identify when I saw the white dots flash all around. It was somewhat intense because I couldn't move my pupil so I had to just STARE at it. (I could blink though).
Once that was done, I talked to the doctor who was somewhat baffled that nothing came of the previous appointment. She said she "wanted it to be Central Serrous" because it goes away. But now that we've identified that it isn't that we're sort of back to square one with trying to figure out what is going on. We also did the "1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 4, 2, 4" thing to see how much changing the lens would help. Yeah no! She actually called a neurologist (her dad) while I was there to see what he thought of things. He "needs to see me" to be able to really tell what's going on. The doctor suggested I have a "Visually Evoked Response" test done. So tomorrow I have an appointment.