A DUBLIN man dismissed his blurred vision and headaches as simply being from stress - before doctors revealed he was suffering from multiple sclerosis. Dubliner Stephen Comiskey, 30, brushed off his symptoms and continued to work as a a clinical photographer in The Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital . He told The Irish Sun: “Just before my 30th birthday, I was working at the time when I developed the eye problem and I thought it was just to down to stress.
“I had a blurriness in one of my eyes and then it was like, as if somebody had taken a photograph with a direct flash on the camera. “Or if you look directly at the sun, you look away and you can see a distortion in your vision - almost like an ocular migraine.” As his eye condition worsened, he began to experience numbness in his legs and had difficulty urinating.
Stephen was diagnosed with Optic neuritis and underwent a number of different tests. This led doctors to query if he had neurological disorder and checked him out for MS, which he said “came out of nowhere.” Medics explained Stephen had “very mild” symptoms to start with and he was very lucky to be working in his role.
He said: “I think that I’m lucky to be in the position that I’m in and that I work in ophthalmology, in clinical imaging and had contacts. “I’m lucky enough that I was working with a specialist that was able to pick up the signs and symptoms.” 36-year-old Stephen is now one of 10,000 people in Ireland living with MS and.
