When do you mark the anniversary?
For those of you that mark the anniversary of your MS, do you count your official diagnosis date or go from your first symptoms?
I had my first relapse last year in July, I was initially told it could be MS then, but later told by a neurologist it was unlikely until I had a few more relapses and officially diagnosed in May this year, so technically I feel I have had MS for a year. I know some of you have had years between initial symptoms and a diagnosis.
I don't feel like it's anything to celebrate or anything, it's just been a long year when I look back at everything that has happened.
Definitely symptom onset as opposed to diagnosis.
I personally use both as my first symptoms started around 1998 so I was 19 years old but diagnosed in 2004