Can Bilateral Optic Neuropathy really not be treated & if it's in 1 eye will it eventually move to the other?

My mom is 45 years old and has half the vision in her right eye blurred starting 18 months ago. She has been diagnosed with bilateral optic neuropathy but after much testing no cause has been found. Does this mean she will just have to live with thisand is there really no treatment? Does it also mean that the blurred vision will definitely move to the left eye?

Can't be of much help here, but try and post your question here:

http://www.medhelp.org/forums/Ophthalmol...

It's answered by eye experts. Don't know if this particular forum is free of charge, but it was a couple of years ago. If it's free, you may need to keep trying to post since they would take a limited number of questions per day.

Hope this helps.

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