KelliD

Hi Lemom....I'm not medically trained, so my opinion is JUST an opinion. But all of your symptoms sound like MS.

Who checked your eyes? Optometrist or neuro-opthalmologist? I strongly recommend the latter.

I can't really tell you exactly when my symptoms began. I think most MSers go through years of misdiagnosis, whether it be at the hands of a doctor or self-diagnosis.

Three years ago I had serious vision problems in my right eye. Saw the optometrist. He saw nothing wrong, suggested it was a sinus infection and dismissed me.

In 2003 the symptoms became even worse..throughout my body...and my eye was messed up again. This time, because I got a new doctor who actually LISTENS to her patients, I was sent for an MRI...to a neuro-opthalmologist...and a neurologist.

The MRI turned up suspicious lesions...the eye doc found nothing but said I would likely be diagnosed with probable MS...and the neuro, after an LP, evoked potentials, blood work, complete history of symptoms and the MRI, concluded that all signs point to MS.

I said all that to say this: sometimes the tell-tale tests they use for diagnosis CAN come up clean, and you find later it was MS in progress. The disease is elusive in its early stages.

I truly hope you don't have it. But you ARE too young to be feeling so lousy. Keep pursuing a diagnosis...don't give up! Even if it means going shopping for a new doctor. YOU are in charge of your health!!!