I've been having some odd parasthesia symptoms the past few months and have read where it may be MS or definitely not MS but figure this forum has a good chance of giving a straight answer. I've been pursuing this as not MS, but now I'm wondering if I'm wrong. I do have an appt with a neurologist, but it's a month off.
I get tingling/weird sensations in my hands and feet, face, neck, scalp, chin, and forearms. Sometimes a burning feeling. Sometimes a cold or wet feeling. But they are not consistent. The sensation, in that exact spot, may only last a few hours, and then it's on to a new location, maybe a single toe, maybe the heel, maybe my right thumb, maybe my scalp. Sometimes they last for days, like the burning and tingling on my toes and the base of my foot, but mostly it's just a few hours.
Sometimes the feelings are symmetrical. As in, yesterday, both forearms felt like they had a sunburn. When my feet were tingling and the soles were burning, it was in both feet. When my big toes were getting burning and shooting pains, it was both at the same time, in the same way. But sometimes my left foot feels the sensation more intensely, though.
Sometimes they are NOT symmetrical. The three toes on my left foot might tingle on the tops, but not the toes on my right foot.
Interestingly, I only have one location active at a time (or two locations if symmetrical). As in, my feet may burn, but that's it. My right arm may feel heavy and achy that day, but nothing else. Mostly, the same sensation never goes back to the same location. The foot burning/tingling has been more recurrent.
Today I woke up and my left thigh felt achy and tight and didn't want to work right, the knee felt unstable, but I could walk fine. Within 2 hours that muscle weirdness went away and then I started getting a large tingling sensation in my thigh that migrated up to my buttocks, across the groin/saddle area, and onto my right buttock and upper right leg. When it moved into a new area it basically left some of the previous area. It's mostly gone now.
But that's the only place in my body with any tingling. Not my feet or hands right now.
There has been one spot on my body that has tingled for months and has not moved. A spot about the size of a dime on my lower right abdomen below my belt line. Just a mild tingle, nothing alarming, but it's there.
Until my left leg was feeling off this morning I had felt no weakness in any limb. Muscles have been strong. Reflexes good. No loss of sensation. No visual changes.
So does this sound MS-y?
I think I have some kind of viral infection in my nervous system and the infection is moving around. I don't have a fever or anything, though.