True, I wouldn't want to have been a guinea pig as a child, and even now there isn't a cure. I guess the curiosity stems more from hoping to unlock the disease. When exactly is it "contracted?" For a long time it was thought to be purely inherited but didn't exhibit a classic inheritance model, for instant in identical twins if one had it the other wasn't likely to get it. Now they're speculating viral exposure, and combining gene traits to viral exposure.

It's a little understood disorder, but maybe if we can at least start untangling the mangled mess to its beginning, there might be more answers. Unfortunately we need doctors and some patients too, to not just explore the here and now, but to trace it back to the first signs. Look at children today exhibiting the same little signs and check them down the road to see if they follow the MSers, or other disorders or are they just your average everyday healthy adult?

And I realize there are more brilliant minds than my own working on this everyday, some dedicating a lifetime to the research of this disease. I really do appreciate them, but this is a disorder that appears truly 'Disordered' without any real 'accepted' warning, no standard progression or even definitive test.

Frustrating though it is, at the same time it's absolutely fascinating. I might be more inclined to fall into despair if not for the tangled mess I find myself in. The ultimate puzzle, that keeps my mind racing looking for pieces. And likely will continue to race until that portion of the brain gets demyelination going

Well it's a distraction from pain at least, and thanks Sally for another possible piece.