I had mono in late 95, early 96. Flat on my back for about a month. Took me close to a year to recover. I just dont think I ever got back to feeling what I felt like before the mono tho.

I think the first symptom that I can remember was vertigo. Always thought that was an ear infection. The vertigo started to hit me every few months probably in the summer of 97.

The big crap (optic neuritis) didnt hit me till summer of 2006, and that was the first time I ever even had any idea that it could have been MS. I had numbness in my thigh earlier in 2006, but a craptastic PA at my doctor's office told me that the numbness was a sprain and to put heat on it. (that PA was/is an total moron. I cant stand her...she's also the person who told me my MRI was clear, when it wasnt really clear)