I am a 33yo male and was Dx'ed with RRMS in Sept 2015, I was having a right eye issue that my eye Dr. couldn't figure out (it wasn't due to ON, it was the location of a lesion) and he kept telling me to ride it out... I went to my primary and he got me an MRI the next week which showed 3 active lesions and 3-4 inactive ones. About the time of the MRI I was actually flaring up with my first dose of a "real" relapse and had all the fun classic symptoms of MS. Numbness, tingling, weakness in right forearm, and some cognitive issues. I am nearly back to normal, the right eye is still always blurry and I get some occasional jittering but other than that no major lasting issues. My guess is I have probably had it for 1-2 years, what my neuro and I consider my CIS was in 2014. I consider myself lucky in terms of getting my Dx pretty quick, my eye Dr. had already run some VEP testing when I started having my eye issues and I was relapsing during my neuro visit so I didn't get dragged through a long testing cycle like some people unfortunately go through. Also did have some blood work, a couple lyme tests, and no spinal tap.
I'm on Tecfidera and tolerate it very well (blood counts have barely dropped also) but will be going ahead with HSCT, a few of us in the family have a medical background so fortunately a lot of the information and research papers are relatively easy to understand and have decided that will be the longer term route to go.
I still mountain bike, do yoga, trail run and hope to keep it that way as long as possible
