This is a little off topic but this disease really is so confusing. I have 9 lesions and a few black holes but really no symptoms except the mild optic neuritis and mild dizziness at diagnosis and maybe fleeting vision problems once and mild problems with heat since then. I got diagnosed 18 months ago -- nothing has changed lesion wise over that time. I am still surprised when I hear someone only has 1 lesion but has lots of symptoms and troubles. I'm assuming we just don't see everything on the MRI? But why is it someone can have a bunch of lesions but a very mild case of MS????