elder woman survives lifetime of MS symptoms

hello from beautiful Oregon coast. Very healthy place to recover from any illness. I have had MS symptoms from teenage years and perhaps before that. One of the most pointed symptoms I had when very young was great sensitivity to over head tube lights. I would feel a nervois system fry symptom in my eyes when in those lights. I had other attacks of weird undiagnosed symptoms when quite young including horrible headaches and leg aches. My nickname was "spaz". Now I am 64 and went through horrendous MS attack starting in 2000-2001 and leveling off about 2 years ago to a milder constant attack with chronic optical neuritis which gets worse and then better/worse all the time. When i was young I decided I must have had mild polio. Sometimes I thought I had leukemia............i never thought for one second until 2001 that i Might have MS. had no idea what MS was. Was very surprised when I went "blind" in 2001 (sorry; went blind is not an accurate description but it is how i "felt"). to discover my symptoms matched optical neuritis and MS. I was tormented by landlord, neighbors, family and doctors as faking it and wanting attention. Finally I withdrew to isolation style life and looked into healing this mess. I have lots of advice to give others if they want to know. Most of what I see on the internet is correct about MS so you can take all of their advice. Nobody will ever be able to describe all their symptoms. Others will always think of that as "mental illness". I heard bones crunching in my head; clicks i sinuses; cracks in neck bones; other weird things like air rushing or sand going thru an hour glass as my optical neuritis then took my memory and i became a fearful zombie. I hid in the closet and decided to leave that place with its bad doctors and had to tie ropes to my arms and legs and pull........to walk; couldn't get feet off ground when walking: shuffling. Ignored by mental health drop in centers and tortured by smelling like urine as that symptom progressed...went thru all symptoms and others new and unknown BUT I SURVIVED AND IMPROVED AND AM MUCH BETTER AND i think i know why and how to cure yourself of this horrible syndrome called MS.  P. S. food for thought: you can have MS and lyme disease too at same time. anybody ever realize that??????

ZenkaliNhidi---please if you have any information that could be useful for the rest of us please come back and share it with us.

Hi:  I agree with you, about the doctors.  I have so many of the MS symptoms but only abnormalities in  white matter of my brain.  I believe I need to have also some abnormalities in either my cervical MRI or the Thoracic MRI either should show lesions of MS.  I have lived for over 35 years with these symptoms.  But, the symptom that drives me nuts is the constant numbness of my head, with pressure and burning pain.  Also, my legs burn all the time.  My first symptom was optic neuritis in the late 1970s.  I have been all over without any luck.  My symptoms have become constant now.   what can you advise me?  Have you been diagnosed.  I got a diagnosis of Probable MS.  

GARY!!!!!!

Yes, I have missed you!  How the heck are you?