Is this a usual timeline of symptoms?

New diagnosis and before diagnosis
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Hi everyone! , sorry if I seem a bit uneducated but I’m new here and decided to try and get some info from the community.

I’ve been having symptoms that could be attributed to MS but have so far either been dismissed or attributed to chronic migraines, being: very bad headaches, tingling hands and feeling shock sensations down my right arm, fatigue, general clumsiness and dizziness, eye pain and difficulty focusing them, and just overall chronic pain. But I’ve been complaining off this since my early teens, the tingling and eye pain comes and goes, the rest is pretty constant.

However, new symptoms made the MS be brought up again. I’m 21 (female), and these all feel like they showed up overnight: I started having intermittent hand tremors, sometimes I’m fine and others I can’t get a forkful of rice in my mouth. I woke up needing to pee and couldn’t, it was both uncomfortable and embarrassing. I have been having some trouble speaking, I know what I want to say but I cant get the words out. And this one is weird but I started having voice breaks like teenage boys.

Because I do have a diagnosis of chronic migraines I have different MRIs and they’re clean, that’s one of the reasons it was dismissed before but now? Idk…

Anyways, this is very long, is this a MS-like progression of symptoms? Have some stuff somewhat constant for years and suddenly a new set manifests? even with clean MRIs?

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MS can sometimes be difficult to diagnose, especially in its early stages, and clean MRIs don’t always rule out MS or other neurological conditions so taking some test it’s kind of necesery

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it seems that maybe MRI lesions don’t show initially. When was your last brain and upper spine MRI? if more than a year ago maybe have new ones done (expensive I know).

at your age getting started on DMTs soonest could make a real difference to your condition in say your 80s.

I wish people like you could be started on DMTs before MS diagnosis, just on balance of risk. (You could always come off them later if MS lesions don’t show up.)