Question about parasthesias

[PastorDan]

First question: Did I spell it right? ;)

Second: I've had many sensations of vibration (a la the vibrating cell phone in my shoe feeling, all the while as I know the phone's in my pocket) in various places around the body for months now, but one in particular has been around in the same place for a week or so.  Normally, the feelings have been pretty transient, and would typically stop quickly (only to reappear in another location).  Is it normal for these peculiar sensations to stay in one place, move around, or both?

[PastorDan]

Is it me, or does it seem that there are many neuros out there who are really clueless when it comes to MS?  No answer needed, really; it's obvious.

[emmas1]

Mine are transient too..they go to predictable places and sometimes in new spots.  

My neuro told me the same thing...doesn't sound like MS because it's jumping around instead of being one thing for a period of time.  

[jesserose]

mine are transient, but they go back and forth to generally the same places.  My feet or toes, spots on leg, or fingers, not to be gross but down there even sometimes.

This neuro I have for now doesn't think msbecause of the fact that I've always seemed to be paroxysmal and fleeting rather than one thing for months at a time.  Which he seems to think is the only kind of symptoms someone with ms has.

[uk2]

I have had these since i got ill in jan 2007 infact these were the first things i went to the GP with. Over the nearly 3 yrs i dont go without them but they come in different frequancy.

I have had the pins and needles,water running down my legs-feeling of.numb patch on my thigh/hip,always thinking i have a fly or something on the side of my face when i dont!!

They used to worry me but now i've got used to it the only one i dont like is the hyper sensitive skin when it burns and hurts so much you cant lay on it or touch it that is not fun!!!

I am not dx though.

[saveone]

This is a funny one.  Not long ago, when the rain wouldn't stop, it began to flow across the road at the end of our hollow.  You had to drive through to get out, which I did.

So here I am going through the water and I am hearing it spray onto the bottom of the car.  Suddenly I felt water spraying on my feet.  I quickly looked down because I thought...shoot, I've got a hole in my floorboard.  Not likely it is a 2004 and it would have had to have been an awful big hole....the kind you fall through.

The joke is my brain heard the water spraying the bottom of the car so I assume it thought I should feel the wetness on my legs...lol

enjoy,  terry

[PastorDan]

Now I must say thanks to the four of you; I had no idea Heather and I were typing at the same time!  I appreciate all the input.  Now I think I'm going to go shave my head.

({;>D)

[Lulu54]

Hey PD, just passing through from up here on the Lake while the kids are off ....  who turned off the summer heat?  

Most of the paresthesias that I feel occur in the same general areas.  this would probably be because they are directly linked to nerve/myelin damage in areas that connect to those spots.  Then I get the floating ones that just pop up in a new area, surprise me, and then disappear about as quick.  So for me, I get both.  I don't know if any of this makes sense.....  

I have come to the conclusion that the human body is possibly the noisiest machine ever built.  If you listen to all the sounds and symptoms and feelings that come through our bodies it is incredibly busy.  Then if you start making the body works misfire, it sure can crank up the volume.  

The paresthesias fit right in there with all the rest of the noises.  

I just wish earplugs would help to quiet it down!
Lulu

[PastorDan]

Thanks to both of you lovely ladies.  I've read the health page on "Things that go buzz in the night" by Quix, and it was informative as well as entertaining at the same time.  Could be my comprehension (the neuro-psych doc thought not, though), but I was left with this question afterward.  Either way, it's nice to know I'm not alone, or as I discussed with the neuro-psych doc, I'm not nuts!  We agreed that it's all in my head, but it's from a neurological cause, not an emotional one.  Seems odd, then, that we feel it in so many areas, doesn't it?

[Heather3418]

I have been diagnosed with MS for over a decade and this is one "symptom" that I experience EVERY day in one place of my body or another.  Sometimes it will lasts for days, like electric shocks going down my big toe.  I get it in one side of my scalp.  The side of my leg...you get the idea.

It used to bother me alot, but now I chuckle and say, 'Where else is this stuff going to show up?"  I can't tell you how many times, I have asked the love of my life, to check my head and make sure there are not any bugs crawling around.  He just laughs, knowing I am having one of "those" symptoms, but checks anyway.

My Neuro told me that these sensations are caused by mis-firing of the nerves in the brain and spinal cord.  She said in my case, they are probably coming from my spinal cord lesion.

I have also felt the "water" running down my leg, like Terry explains.  Now that is weird.  I've learned over the years being diagnosed, that nothing is really out of the ordinary, when it comes to this flakie disease.

Heather  

[saveone]

There is a health page on this.  From my experience, my feet, hands and the tip of nose are constant but other areas are affected on and off and with different sensations.  For example, I think my feet are wet or I feel water on leg or running down my arm.

enjoy your weekend, terry

[biowham]

Hi, Pastor Dan--

In my experience (and my "dx" is "possible PPMS"), they do both. I've got a couple of good old familiar paresthesias, and then I get transient buzzes. They occur in one place for awhile--a week or so?--and then they disappear, maybe coming back again another day, maybe not. They do NOT just float around everywhere all the time--I have predictable places where these turn up, even though they're coming and going. And like I said, I've got a couple of places where I reliably have them pretty much all of the time. But their transience is characteristic of them.

The spelling is paresthesias--using the root that is also in "aesthetic," having to do with "feeling" or "sensing." As in, "anaesthetic" =  no feeling, etc.

Bio