I checked "permanent loss in one ear before MS symptoms," but actually the hearing loss occurred a few weeks after what I consider the first of all those weird symptoms (painful electric shocks under my ears in mid-1999).

The vast majority of the weird symptoms began a couple months after the hearing loss that year.

I did have some dizzy episodes, stabbing head pains, achiness, and constant wooziness going back to the late 1980s, but I don't know if those are related to all the other stuff. I never thought anything about those old longtime symptoms until 1999 when I lost my hearing and then all the other stuff happened.

So, my hearing loss was really one of the first two BIG weird/unexplained things that happened to me.

Haven't ever been diagnosed with anything, though.

Nancy T.