Optic neuritis (ON) is an inflammation that damages your optic nerve. It can cause vision loss and pain when you move your eyes. As the inflammation goes away, your symptoms usually get better.

The exact cause of this is unknown. Optic neuritis also affects about half of people with multiple sclerosis (MS), a progressive neurologic disorder. It's frequently the first symptom of the ...

Optic neuritis rarely causes blindness, but it might result in vision blurring or a dark spot in the center of the visual field, known as a central scotoma. Optic neuritis commonly improves on its ...

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Naismith et al. state that they preferentially recruited patients with severe optic neuritis (with ≤20/200 vision) and poor recovery (to <20/40 vision).This bias in selecting study participants ...

About Acute Optic Neuritis Acute optic neuritis is a rare ... uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those that we expected and/or those expressed ...

Optic neuritis can be caused by a number of causes, including multiple sclerosis (a condition affecting your brain and spinal cord that results in a loss of the protective covering of your nerves).[ ...