Crazy or Possible MS symptoms?

[anon07072023]

Hi Everyone,

The last couple of days I've had what feels like maybe creeping/crawling on the top of my head towards the right front (always in the exact same spot). I've only had a migraine once in my life and I never have headaches and so I know this can't be related to anything like that. But I always thought that your symptoms are at or below a lesion - but how could this be if it's on the TOP of my head?  

Since the end of Sept I keep getting burning sensation towards the top of my left ear. It comes and goes all the time. And it actually turns bright red when it's burning. Could this be related to MS or what?

And one final one - short term memory issues???  Since 6 Oct (I keep a symptom journal) I've had problems with short term memory. I know forgetfulness may be normal for some people, but it's not for me. Now I'll be in the middle of doing something and look away for a few seconds and totally forget that I was in the middle of doing something. I've forgotten my cell phone and my cup several times recently that I sit on top of a water fountain at work every day while I go into the restroom. I left my car keys in my trunk when I was putting a bag in there before work. And the funny thing is, I had no clue I had did it. At the end of the day I was searching every where for my car keys. And another time I went to put the collar back on our dog, and I had totally forgotten all the things I was carrying with me, that I had sit down on the dryer in order to put her collar on.

Does anyone else have issues/symptoms like these....or am I going crazy? OK, the crazy part might not be related to the symptoms....    :-)

[anon07072023]

OK, thanks everone. Maybe I'm not too crazy then....

[COBOB]

TN, Atypical Facial pain, and paresthesias of the face are three different things.  Kind of weird stuff and it may take a neurologist to sort the out.

[jensequitur]

When I first went to my PCP to talk about this weird tingling on my face, she wrote it down as TN...  Maybe doctors think of all paresthesia as being TN if it's on the face.  Or maybe my PCP didn't know what she was doing!

I keep having weird paresthesia on my head.  For a long time, my scalp tingled and buzzed, like an electric shock going through my head.  I've had shocks in my tongue, buzzing and tingling in my chin, and cold sensations on the right side of my face.

[essdipity]

I'm happy to say I've never had TN, but I have had some of the facial symptoms you describe. They are paresthesias--odd and abnormal sensations that seemingly have no cause, since nothing is wrong with the area in question.

TN is commonly excruciating pain that will stop you dead in your tracks. It usually comes in bursts, as the result of stimuli such as eating or brushing teeth, but it also can come out of nowhere.

ess

[zenhound]

See, if they'd have put that on the "Welcome to Colorado" sign I might have turned right back around..

[COBOB]

Actually, Colorado is one of the big MS populations in the US.

[zenhound]

I have similar symptoms. The creepy crawlie thing I can definitely relate to, though often for me it comes across as a buzzing sensation. There are about 4 spots on my head and face that do it--just added a new one in fact, huzzah. And the forgetfulness thing, unfortunately, too is happening to me. I feel like I'm very much within the range of normal, but it's unusual for me. I'll be looking around for my glasses and they're on my face. And I have started leaving stuff in the strangest places. And the other day I somehow managed to forget where I was in my own neighborhood while walking the dog, turned the wrong way to go home. All of it is stuff that is fairly easily explainable by distraction but I never used to be a very distracted person.

I'm undiagnosed. Looks like we have a Colorado contingent growing around here lately!

[anon07072023]

bump

[anon07072023]

Hi Bob,

Thanks for the information. Now that you mentioned the spinal lesions, I think I do remember that now - about how it's from the lesion point downward.

Well, I'm not sure if you can consider what I've had before as TN or not.
I've had sharp pinpricks along my eyebrown, and then facial numbness and tingling on my cheek (inside & out), above my lip, and even on my gums and tongue on the same side of my face.

-Kelly

[COBOB]

The "at or below the lesion" has to do with lesions on the spinal cord.  The tongue and up is pretty much all cranial nerves.  The Olfactory and Optic Nerves go to the cerebrum of the brain.  The rest all go to the brainstem.  So it is possible to have strange sensations on your head and face that are related to a lesion below the sensation.

The head seems to be a common place for "those feelings" especially if you have had TN.

Bob