As someone mentioned in another post, everyone describes their pain, numbness, etc., differently. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we as an MS community could get together with the medical community to put together some kind of descriptive catalog of symptoms?

I'm sure it would be difficult, but could it be done? Do you think it would be helpful? To doctors? To patients?

To demonstrate what I mean I'll try to describe numbness:

What is numb? Is it lack of ALL feeling? Not in my case, since I have numb areas where I can detect heat, cold, etc. But the general feeling in an area is different. As I am sure many of you can attest.

How deep is the numbness? In my case it is not superficial. I can feel a touch on the surface, but there is only a sense of pressure, if that makes sense. Like the numbness is not at the skin level, but deeper, more at the muscle (or nerve) level.

What do you think? Dumb idea?