[quote="Lyon" If we could only identify ONE thing unique to the active MS disease process we could finally get some conclusive evidence under our belts and medical advancements would snowball from there.[/quote]
My MS was diagnosed after a fall flat on my back off a high stepladder onto lawn. I didn't see a doctor because there were no symptoms, just shaken up and prayed nobody saw me

I had pruning shears in hand and was lucky I didn't impale myself in the process. Over the next few weeks started to feel drunk, dizzy, started tripping and falling a lot, fatigue. I wondered if I had injured myself in that fall and saw a neurologist. I had all the lab, EMG/nerve conduction/MRI studies, not lumbar puncture though, and MS was arrived at by excluding other known causes.
I think it was probably just a coincidence, the fall and first attack of MS. I'd been tired for years and years, supporting and raising my kids alone, so fatigue was my first name anyway. Maybe the trauma precipitated the first attack? Who knows. The first attack in 8/2007 was also menopause for me, a possible hormonal relationship in my case.