Different meanings to various terms make me crazy sometimes.

When I get asked if I have "tingling" my answer is NO. I have electrical shocks. Tingling to me is like the pins and needles feeling you get when something like your foot goes to sleep because the circulation was cut off. A very different feeling than when my nerves are mis-firing and I feel like body parts have been plugged into an electrical outlet.

I find communicating "pain" is a very difficult and confusing matter to both the patient and the physician.