There's a symptom free period? No seriously, Jim's never been symptom free unless you count the year or so before dx when he blamed the symptoms on something else like a hangover, working out too much, etc.. He was in the Army so it was easy to pass it off as something else. His first real symptom was drop foot and blurred vision that blinded him for half a day but thank God it came back. Every since then it's been a constant run of symptoms. He was dx'd in 1988.