I only realised relatively recently that my first MS symptom (ON) surfaced a few weeks after the completely unexpected death of my father (who was in his mid fifties) back in 1995. Connection? Who knows. Maybe. All I know is that stress is a pretty good way of exaggerating my symptoms...

everyone tries to make sense of a diagnosis and stress does make everything worse i've been having attacks since my late teens, since then i've had lots of stressful things happen in my life and lots of attacks, but correlation doesn't always prove causation. pregnancy has always given me relief from my attacks and makes me feel normal. so everyones experience is relative. i got really bad double vision on holiday once, i'm sure that wasn't supposed to be a stressful experience but my partner can make even the most relaxing experiences fraught with tension!