Optic neuritis has more to do with the tension in the basi-occiput than any other reason. Please read this article on another eye condition called Visual Snow, a far more serious condition.

Medicine has neither an answer for 'Visual Snow' nor an answer for 'Optic Neuritis'. Drugs do not cure problems where the underlying cause is PHYSICAL.
Also be extremely cautious of other sodium channel blockers which are probably on the way to assault the SPMS patients...!

A patient previously labelled with 'MS' just wrote:
"yes - you're right. MS is the perfect excuse to sell all those `maybe' drugs. what a perfect scam.

I had optic neuritis for about 3 weeks in 2002 and it went away - my good eye became my bad eye so probably did a little permanent damage but rather that then be a guinea pig for who knows what!!!!"

Another ex 'MS' patient writes:
"I went totally blind in my left eye for 6 weeks and I did not take anything for it, eyesight returned on its own except for some colour perception loss but good enough to drive my car without glasses. My optician tells me he can see no damage to my optic nerves.

She also adds:
"Phenytoin must be the drug of the moment. I have a friend who has brain cancer, they put him on phenytoin and now he cannot walk!"
She further reports:
"I noticed today my post and your blog link have been removed from MSSociety Facebook page.

I have asked them, "MS Society why have you deleted my post? On 22nd April I posted a comment about the Epilepsy drug phenytoin which was recently trialed in optic neuritis research. I hope you are not up to your old tricks and deleting posts that don't fit in with you and your sponsors' agenda like you did with comments from the proponents of CCSVI in recent years."

PS. The MS Society purportedly funded this futile Phenytoin research study with your charitable donations. The embarrassment must be dreadful!

On reading this blog a very senior Executive nurse writes:
"Have met many patients over the years that have had to come off phenytoin due to awful side effects!!"
Update: The newspaper the Guardian reports
"Pfizer fined record £84.2m over NHS overcharging
The pharmaceutical company Pfizer has been fined a record £84.2m by the UK’s competition regulator after the price charged to the NHS for an anti-epilepsy drug was increased by up to 2,600%.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), issuing its biggest fine, said the “extraordinary price rises have cost the NHS and the taxpayer tens of millions of pounds”.
The CMA also fined the drugs distributor Flynn Pharma £5.2m for charging excessive and unfair prices in the UK for phenytoin sodium capsules, which are used by an estimated 48,000 epilepsy patients in the UK to prevent and control seizures.
The fines follow an overnight price increase for the drug of up to 2,600%, after it was deliberately debranded, the CMA said. Pfizer makes the drug and sells it to Flynn, which in turn sells it to the NHS.
The amount the NHS was charged for 100mg packs of the drug was increased from £2.83 to £67.50 before being reduced to £54 from May 2014. As a result, the amount the NHS spent on phenytoin sodium capsules rocketed from about £2m a year in 2012 to £50m in 2013.
The CMA also found that Pfizer was charging a far higher price for the anti-epilepsy drug in the UK than in any other European country. "
Comment:
Please remember that this drug presently retails at $0.25 per tablet in the USA. A price of £54 agreed by the NHS is still scandalous. This is 270 times higher than the USA and in fact 27,000% higher.
The story does not end here, Imagine having the misfortune of suffering from epilepsy and being prescribed Phenytoin and ending up with serious complications as described above.
The patients then become a total burden upon their families and society apart from totally destroying their own lives.
Phenytoin is being pushed for use in many other conditions because of the big lolly they make from this useless and dangerous drug.
Who in the NHS agreed on a fee of £54 from a previous fee of £2.83? This needs investigation.
Why can the NHS not use generics? The NHS is a huge cash cow to rob. You only need to convince a couple of buyers and you have 48,000 ready made customers!
How about the police investigating these scams?

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