Tkrik - Thank you! I'll check out those sites. My symptoms are pretty spread out, and the strong, painful zaps only happened one day almost a year ago, though I did mention having less strong and less painful twinges of nerve pain in my calves occasionally since then. My previous neuro tried to put me on Cymbalta for it but I had the WORST reaction to it. I've never had any problems with medication growing up and I've been on accutane, several antidepressants and Xanax and never had issues going on or off them, so I didn't even give the Cymbalta package a look-over. I woke up in the middle of the first night with severe nausea and ended up vomitting for 2 hours and blacked out from the nausea. I live by myself and it was scariest thing. I decided this was NOT an option for me. After the day I experienced the shocks is when the pin prick sensations, and muscle twitches started and ive often wondered if my anxiety over the shocks brought that on, but I still get them so I don't know. God knows since my mother passed ive developed crazy anxiety and health anxiety. You mentioned a MS diagnosis can take years, but if your neuro suspects it do they at least put you on medication that could slow the progression in case it is MS?

My neuro did send me on my way after having clear MRI's after my initial numbess symptom in 2011 but he made me believe I was in the clear for good. I knew absolutely nothing about MS other than the symptoms it caused, or knew much about autoimmune diseases. I didn't realize there was a chance it could come up later in life. I was surprised he didn't mention the possibility, but I guess I shouldn't be if this is how neuros work.

My hair loss and zaps are what throw me off. I've never heard of these 2 with MS, and it's difficult because I don't know if there are separate things going on or if they're all related. So far I've been treating the hair loss separately with a dermatologist when in reality it could be related to the other symptoms too. It's all so confusing to me and and definitely a frustrating stage to go through! I'm sure the stress of all this isn't helping either.

As far as deficiencies, I've had blood work done a little less than a yr ago but the only vitamin checked on there was b12 and it didn't even count because my pcp gave me a b12 shot before my blood work and the value was ">999"! Oh and Iron was fine. Sed rate was normal too - I think that is an indicator for autoimmune diseases? I need to have it all done again though, and maybe more vitamin tests.

I appreciate all the support and advice on here. This is much better for the mind than Dr. Google!