If someone had said something like that to me during the height of the pain from the ON I had 3yrs ago, I probably would have whacked them over the head to replicate the headache pain, and then pulled their eyeball out with a spork and told them that's what optic neuritis feels like.

I remember reading some really old medical encyclopedia that my dad had gotten when he was younger (not sure how old the encyclopedia was) that had a description of MS...said that it was a neurological disease and that it was generally painless, or something like that.

Granted it was an old book, but geeze, all they had to do was ask an MS patient about the pain and they could have cleared up that misconception. My MS isnt even that painful yet, and I can already tell people that "yes, there's pain involved" when they ask questions about the MS.

I'm really not looking forward to the future pain that I'm expecting to get. Hoping it holds off for a looooong time.