I think a good number of us were treated as if we were nuts or lying when we first started to notice the weirdness that MS does sometimes.

My right hip went numb in April of 2006. I was treated like I was a moron by a PA at my doctor's office when I complained about the numbness and pain in the area that was numb. That was the first sign I had that something was wrong, but was pretty much blown off by doctors when I said something about it.

When I got optic neuritis in August of that year, I was pretty much ignored by an ER doc, my regular doctor looked at my eye and said he couldnt see anything wrong, but he at least trusted me enough to send me to an ophthalmologist. The ophthalmologist had a machine that he had me look into, and I clicked a button every time I saw a flash of light. (I call it the "Boring Clicky Video Game") that mapped out the giant blind spot in my eye.

Thank goodness he had a machine that could basically prove that I wasnt giving them a bunch of BS in a bid for attention. I love my eye doctor for that (and love that regular doctor for sending me that...too bad that doctor moved...but I still have a regular doctor that takes me seriously)

That eye doctor was able to gather proof (couple of other tests he did, plus an MRI) that got me sent to a neurologist. I still needed to wait around for my body to give me the second flare that got me another MRI and finally a diagnosis a few months later. But at least the eye doctor took me serious and didnt give me a bunch of crap about it being "migraine related". He was the first doctor to tell me that I probably had MS, and when all the other doctors said I didnt, he still told me that's what he thought I had. At least he told me the truth about what he thought.

I dont know what it is about doctors that they dont believe us when we first develop symptoms of MS. Maybe it's the drug addicts making doctors suspicious of everyone? I dont know.