My first symptoms were a year and a half ago. I was having a sleep disturbance that would happen just as soon as I was dozing off. All of a sudden I'd feel that peaceful feeling in the first cycle of sleep and then a surge of vibration would come up from my chest/neck and then my heart would race. I was having heart palpitations a lot. Then I started having waves of vertigo and episodes of absolute exhaustion that would come over me and then pass. The only SFN symptoms I had were my left foot and thigh and groin would go numb and tingle from certain positions and my left hand had a bit of an electrical tingling feeling at times. Sometimes my toes in both feet and hands would get numbish when it was anything under 65 degrees. A few times I had random numb spots on my body.The autonomic stuff started happening less and that was it for about 10 months and then I started having orthostatic hypotension all the time. Almost every time i got up from sitting or squatting everything was black and I was dizzy. Then I started having shooting nerve pain from my shoulders to arms to hands and I wasn't able to lift heavy weights or do as many pushups. This lasted about 3 months and kept getting worse. Then one day 6 months ago, I woke up and couldn't move my neck. I had severe muscle spasms in both sides all through my traps. I went to the e room and was given muscle relaxers and pain killers and no one including me thought it was a big deal. Was sent for MRI and orthopedist and told it was 2 cervical herniated discs. Things just kept getting worse with my neck and arm weakness and then 2 months later, I could barely swallow food, still couldn't turn my neck and the nerve pain was shooting down into my legs. Then the muscle twitches, skin burning, wet spots, cold feeling like hot, and more excruciating pain went all over... and here I am now. Right this second is not so bad though, but I did take 1/2 of an oxycodone and 1/2 of a valium to give myself a break. How exactly did yours start?