I was dx'd in 2001, when I lost around 50% of my vision and was falling all over myself, couldn't walk straight and was losing bladder control.

But I started having autoimmune problems during my first pregnancy in 1993 (my platelets were very low, I had to have a bone marrow biopsy and they called it ITP - idiopathic thromocytopenia, in other words, my spleen was attacking, and wiping out my platelets).

Over next couple of years I had some pretty obvious cognitive memory and spatial issues. I got so tired, often tingly, numb, slurring speech and so achy-breaky, but it wasn't until 2001 that I was formally dx'd. So, yes looking back it was around long before I had a label.

Lyn