[DCjuggler]

Hi Guys,

I've recently had a flare up, shooting/stabbing pains down my lower back and legs.

Anyway, this caused the allodynia to get worse, but i've developed what i would class as weird as now everything feels weird.

For instance, when i get dressed, it feels as if i can feel -all- the small fibres on the top, like its too -fluffy- or something, it feels soo weird against my skin, feel it on my bed sheet/quilt too.

Is this normal in neuropathy? i dont like it!!!

[glenntaj]

--paradoxically, one can say "everything is normal".

When it comes to disrupted sensory nerves, one can all manner of weird sensations that don't correspond to any stimulus. Shooting, stabbing, tingling, lancating, electrical, feelings of liquid flowing, feelings of insects creeping, feelings of plastic coating skin, weird sensations of "sponginess", radiating numbness, plain old numbness--and I'm sure I'm forgetting some descriptions that have been used here and other places . . .

Depending on what nerves are involved and how the brain is interpreting erroneous signals, one can get spontaneous sensations of just about anything it is possible to "feel" from actual stimuli. Interestingly, there's not much correlation between the sensation and the degree of nerve impingment or damage--it's a very individual situation.

[susanjpullen]

Originally Posted by DCjuggler

Hi Guys,

I've recently had a flare up, shooting/stabbing pains down my lower back and legs.

Anyway, this caused the allodynia to get worse, but i've developed what i would class as weird as now everything feels weird.

For instance, when i get dressed, it feels as if i can feel -all- the small fibres on the top, like its too -fluffy- or something, it feels soo weird against my skin, feel it on my bed sheet/quilt too.

Is this normal in neuropathy? i dont like it!!!

I get it too... varies on sensitivity.... I've got used to it now, though. I've tried to explain some of the sensations to friends... one strange feeling is almost a remembrance of childhood...

When I was a child we would go walking across the fields, in our wellington boots. Anyway, often we would walk through puddles that were much deeper than we thought... and the water would rise so high it filled up the boots.

So you ended walking a fair way with cold water slooshing around your calves... and then once you'd emptied them, you still had to walk along with cold, wet calves all the way home.

I get a lot of that sensation... I call it getting the wellies... at first it was very disconcerting, but now its just there.

I hope yours clears up soon. Good luck.

[sbvcrn]

Originally Posted by DCjuggler

Hi Guys,

I've recently had a flare up, shooting/stabbing pains down my lower back and legs.

Anyway, this caused the allodynia to get worse, but i've developed what i would class as weird as now everything feels weird.

For instance, when i get dressed, it feels as if i can feel -all- the small fibres on the top, like its too -fluffy- or something, it feels soo weird against my skin, feel it on my bed sheet/quilt too.

Is this normal in neuropathy? i dont like it!!!

I cant stand many fabrics and so many that I could stand before I now find I need to turn them inside out because the outer side is usually smoother than the inner...so much of whatever I wear next to my skin in inside out! I have had to go to polyester sheets...cant stand cotton blends or flannel. And polyester blends are getting harder to find. Maybe silk next at the rate I am going.

[mrsD]

I use jersey sheets (bottoms).

And I haven't used a top sheet since before menopause.
Top sheets block air circulation and hug the body, and this is
just unbearable to me. I have a thin cotton comforter, that is
really not very warm, that I use instead of a sheet. It puffs up and doesn't smother my feet. Then when it gets really cold,
I have another polyester comforter I put over that.

I haven't been able to tolerate a top sheet for ages.

[sbvcrn]

Originally Posted by mrsD

I use jersey sheets (bottoms).

And I haven't used a top sheet since before menopause.
Top sheets block air circulation and hug the body, and this is
just unbearable to me. I have a thin cotton comforter, that is
really not very warm, that I use instead of a sheet. It puffs up and doesn't smother my feet. Then when it gets really cold,
I have another polyester comforter I put over that.

I haven't been able to tolerate a top sheet for ages.

Mrs. D
Very interesting. I forgot to mention, I too, use Jersey sheets AND do not use a top sheet, only a light comforter (and another one on top of that if it is too cold). Works for me too, that with the smoother side of fabrics next to my body I can tolerate most regular clothes (forget sweaters that is for sure or my ole 100 % wool navy "pea coat". Alas!)