Hindsight, can you remember your first sign of MS?

Summertime seemed to bring on my multiple Sclerosis. Summer of 1999, my arms from the shoulder down to my fingertips went numb. At that time, I was a data entry worker, who typed for 40 hours a week. I thought the numb and tingling sensation in my fingers was the start of carpal tunnel. I would go outside to smoke on my breaks. A good friend of mines at the time would from time to time tell my “You dropped your cigarette” and she would pick It up for me. Usually while I was talking, I couldn’t feel the cigarette roll out of my hands. She was concerned that I was beginning to experience carpal tunnel, because she had it. Self-diagnosis was the name of the game. The numb tingling sensations lasted for the whole summer non-stop. The next summer, again I numb and tingly from the waist down like it was clockwork. I had to do a lot of walking to get to my new job. The funny thing about it was, I felt like I was half a person. Like on the old Tom and Jerry cartoons when Jerry would cut Tom’s body in half and Tom continues to walk with his body detached. When I go through these symptoms, I find myself constantly looking at the infected area of my body in disbelief. I wonder if anyone else reacts in that matter.