Last week I suddenly lost the sight in my right eye for a minute or two. I had just taken a shower, as I recall, and I had come out to the dining room for a cup of coffee when a sort of gray curtain descended over my eye and I could see nothing but gray. It was brief, as I have said, and yet quite frightening. Of course at the time I had no idea whether my sight would come back at all, in a minute or in 2 minutes or in 2 hours. Since that time, I have experienced a number of other strange symptoms. One has been the return of the intense inner heat that I have long had a problem with but which has been generally controlled by medication (pregabalin). Suddenly, the medication was ineffective. Another was a feeling like the skin on my legs and feet was on fire. Really uncomfortable. Yet another has been extreme fatigue, such that I have been falling asleep two or three times a day. What all this means to me is that MS has reared its ugly head once again and gone into an active phase. Relapsing / remitting, right? So this is a relapse. At best. I have read that most MS eventually becomes progressive, especially with age or with the length of time that one has had the disease. Naturally, I'm hoping for relapsing rather than progressive.
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