The difficulty of diagnosis
Multiple Sclerosis is a disease that today, if diagnosed in time, can have minimal negative effects on a person’s life. This is due to the fact that recent studies and trials using stern cell therapy have shown encouraging results for people who have relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis in the early stages. However, most of the early symptoms of multiple sclerosis are usually overlooked and seen as minor symptoms of a stressful lifestyle and not enough sleep or such.

A look at early symptoms
This being said, before a diagnosis is made, one should always keep an eye for the minor symptoms of multiple sclerosis. The initial symptoms a person experiences are fatigue, dizziness, and strange sensations throughout the body, balance problems and problems with vision.
Fatigue is perhaps the most common and at the same time overlooked symptom. However, people with MS usually experience fatigue in mid-afternoon and it’s a combination of muscle and mental fatigue.  Dizziness, experienced as lightheadedness sometimes, is also a common symptom, along with tingling sensations, numbness and sometimes itching and burning. Difficulty with balance, and numbness in one limb are also present, not too often but often enough. Perhaps the most disturbing and alarming sign that one has is vision problems, which often translate in double vision , blurred vision, or loss of color vision.

The Medical Diagnosis
Due to the fact that the minor symptoms of the illness are similar to other conditions, the diagnosis is difficult, and medical organizations created diagnostic criteria in an effort to make the diagnostic process easy, especially in the early stages of the disease.
However, in the cases of individuals who have suffered neurological symptoms associated with MS, the clinical data alone is sufficient to diagnose. Usually, most people seek medical advice after one attack, and this means that more than one test needs to be conducted to ease the diagnosis. 
Currently, neuroimaging, the analysis of cerebrospinal fluid is used to diagnose multiple sclerosis. The  MRI ( magnetic resonance imaging) of the brain and spine will show areas where the demyelination has occurred, thus helping to pin-point that the symptoms experienced by the patient are MS related.
Another tool used to diagnose MS is a lumbar puncture, used to test the cerebrospinal fluid; this shows an inflammation of the central nervous system, which is a sign of MS.
Due to the demyelination caused by MS the patient’s nervous system has a delay in responding to the stimulation of the optic nerve, and knowing this, doctors examine the brain response using sensory and visual evoked potentials.

Conclusion
The multiple sclerosis diagnosis captions provided here are just an introduction to a complex process, that is still under research by scientists. This is due to the fact that the sooner the diagnosis is made, the treatment can begin, and the sufferer can have all its symptoms alienated and, hopefully, trough the recent stem cell therapy, the disease cured.