A woman who had to have stents implanted in her brain due to a "mystery illness" permanently lost vision in her right eye - after the stents "choked out" her optic nerve.<br /><br />Chandler Plante, 23, suffered a stroke in March 2021 and lost all vision in her right eye eight months later. While the vision loss wasn't caused by the stroke, it happened as a result of her treatment. <br /><br />She hasn't received any official diagnosis for her ongoing health problems - which include frequent strokes, head and face inflammation. <br /><br />Her doctors have speculated it could be down to an autoimmune condition - even a "really severe" version of long covid. <br /><br />She's been through multiple rounds of radiation, courses of steroids and chemo drugs - and will need to take aspirin daily for the rest of her life to prevent the strokes from coming back. <br /><br />In July 2021, Chandler had coronary stents implanted into her brain. Her arteries - which are typically meant to be 4mm wide, were measuring at just 0.5mm. <br /><br />The procedure was meant to widen her arteries and prevent blood clots and inflammation. <br /><br />But some of the stents dislodged and "choked out" her optic nerve. As a result, Chandler went blind in her right eye. <br /><br />Chandler, a magazine editor, from Tuscan, Arizona, US, said: “It’s such an enigmatic illness and it refuses to go away - it’s given me a really deep trauma.<br /><br />“I’ve had so many different types of treatment - and it’s taken three years to find medication that doesn’t ruin my physical and mental health.<br /><br />“No one fully understands why this has happened to me.”<br /><br />Before her health concerns started, Chandler rarely fell ill.<br /><br />Her medical history was clear, and she described herself as a “normal 21-year-old”.<br /><br />She came down with a mild case of Covid in December 2020 but recovered within a week.<br /><br />For three months, she went back to her usual routine - but on March 29, 2021, Chandler began experiencing a numbness in her hands and forearms.<br /><br />She went straight to the emergency room - but she claims her symptoms were initially dismissed as “anxiety.”
