It's Kel....here's my story! 

Onset of symptoms, how long ago/i.e. # of years:

approximately 15 years ago 

Types of symptoms

Immediate jumping of the eye....(up and down jerking feeling)

Which eye has SOM, right or left

Right eye

When you sought diagnosis

after about a week

Who diagnosed you

A pediatric opthalmologist

How you found/was referred to that person

Was already going for ocular hypertension

Proposed causes, i.e. head injury, illness

None that anyone could figure out

How SOM was explained to you

Muscle spasms of the superior oblique muscle in the right eye.  Nothing could really be done for it, and it was an inconvenience that I would learn to live with. (One tech said her husbands eyelid twitched all the time....duh)

Your feelings and response to your diagnosis

I cried a lot, because they claimed to know what it was, but really had no idea what it was like to have this. 

The first treatments suggested to you

Artificial tears...one doc thought it might be dry eye.

Your response to those suggestions, how you felt, what you did or did not do

I knew it wasn't dry eye.....told them I'd keep coming back until they saw the eye twitch.  Which I did.

Remissions

A year after onset, and every few years I have a little spell.

Research that you might have done on your own

Just this site.

Current SOM status

Remission

Your age

almost 49

Your gender

Female