I didn’t see that coming
Brendan Bouffler
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About This Podcast
New po this is a podcast for people interested in or suffering from optic neuritis and associated illnesses - but from a patient's prospect. When I started my journey with optic neuritis, there were very few resources on the Internet that could describe to me what I could expect both from the disease and the treatment and how it would feel. So this podcast is designed to fill that app.
I'm helped in each episode by my friend and collaborator Dr. Joanna Gould, who has a PhD neurology and helps explain some of the more difficult scientific topics.
They certainly isn't medical advice, but it's a medical experience that hopefully you can benefit from.
Contact us at [email protected].
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Recent Episodes
How to characterize your vision
Every time you go to see your specialist, they're going to ask you how your vision is. It helps them a lot if you can say something more insightful, and more descriptive than "it's a little better",…
Nobody warned me about the long-term effects of steroid juice
Today's episode is split into two parts. The first is a discussion about some of the long-term impacts of steroids that I've had - the kinds of things that accumulate in your body after you've been…
Nobody warned me about steroids
With optic neuritis or most other inflammatory diseases in your body, doctors will often prescribe some kind of steroids to get the inflammation to go down quickly and to start managing the…
Second opinion to the rescue - and my new team
The first medical team were circling the drain around a diagnosis that didn't fit the evidence. On top of that the diagnosis they were pursuing was cancer. These two factors made me lunge for a…
Christmas in Hospital - or "will Santa bring me a diagnosis?"
Christmas and new year in hospital wasn't exactly part of my optimal plans, but then again nor was optic neuritis. It was all worth doing in the search of a diagnosis and so in this episode, we talk…
When something goes seriously wrong
This is the first of three episodes where we track the whole course from diagnosis to final treatment jump, jumping between a couple of hospitals and lots and lots of special specialists to find an…
Becoming your own investigative journalist
We talk about what optic neuritis is, where it comes from what its possible causes. We also discuss some other advice about things that you should know from the outset and maybe some good habits you…
S1 Intro to our podcast and our presenters
A brief introduction to the podcast and the two presenters: Brendan Bouffler (the patient) and Dr Joanna Gould (our captive scientist).
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I didn’t see that coming has published 8 episodes since March 2026, covering topics in Health & Fitness, Medicine.
I didn’t see that coming is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 33m.
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