Hey Mary
I was reading through your previous posts and I noticed you said your rheumy told you the only way to find out if lupus is causing your neurological symptoms is by doing a brain biopsy....Is your rheumy a lupus expert??? There's lots of ways to test for cns involvement in lupus, MRIs, nerve conduction tests, spinal taps etc etc depending on what the symptoms are.
I'd never heard of an enlarged blind spot before...From what I could find it could be related to inflammation of the optic nerve (the blind spot in your eye is actually the optic nerve beginning), but that normally has other symptoms such as vision loss, pain behind the eye, pain with eye movement etc. That is probably what your rheumy was talking about when he mentioned an optic nerve lesion... Have you had such symptoms recently?
Apparently there is something called idiopathic blind spot enlargement, in which the blind spot is enlarged for no detectable reason without causing any problems but that is quite rare.
It might be an idea, if you have any other problems with that eye (such as vision loss) to do a test called visual evoked potentials. It's a test that can be used to detect optic nerve problems (even very subtle ones).
I hope you're doing ok :blush:
Zoi
I was reading through your previous posts and I noticed you said your rheumy told you the only way to find out if lupus is causing your neurological symptoms is by doing a brain biopsy....Is your rheumy a lupus expert??? There's lots of ways to test for cns involvement in lupus, MRIs, nerve conduction tests, spinal taps etc etc depending on what the symptoms are.
I'd never heard of an enlarged blind spot before...From what I could find it could be related to inflammation of the optic nerve (the blind spot in your eye is actually the optic nerve beginning), but that normally has other symptoms such as vision loss, pain behind the eye, pain with eye movement etc. That is probably what your rheumy was talking about when he mentioned an optic nerve lesion... Have you had such symptoms recently?
Apparently there is something called idiopathic blind spot enlargement, in which the blind spot is enlarged for no detectable reason without causing any problems but that is quite rare.
It might be an idea, if you have any other problems with that eye (such as vision loss) to do a test called visual evoked potentials. It's a test that can be used to detect optic nerve problems (even very subtle ones).
I hope you're doing ok :blush:
Zoi
