Takes me back to those "all in your head" years...so many of those years. Until my first MRI, which showed lesions, and other tests which were positive. Still some disagreement as to whether I had it, from various doctors. About 50-50 each way. Problem may be that I also had Porphyria, which has some symptoms like MS and some not too common in MS.
But I did get help from the Swank Diet right away...it worked fast for me, but they kept giving me Porphyrogenic drugs until I got the second dx. Getting rid of the Porphy drugs was a big big breakthrough for me, but it came late in life, when I was already through the menopause and on disability. But my dad and his mom NEVER got dx'd, except in restrospect by my hematologists.