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Originally Posted by lady_express_44
My numbness is very seldom just "numb", it is usually accompanied by hypersensitive skin, tingling/prickles, a sandpaper (or worse) scrubbed by a steel wool pad sensation when I "touch", a swollen feeling, aching bones or muscles around the site, strangled sensation, a feel of lack of blood supply, .... etc.
Most of that is sensory, in that the sensations are phantom one's, like the "itch" that someone without their leg will get. That's why pain relief doesn't help that much.
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Thanks, Cherie. I have the hypersensitive skin, too. Especially on my left hand & arm. The area between the thumb and wrist itches like I have poison ivy.....it's maddening and I've scratched it so much that a blood blister formed!
But....the strange thing is that scratching doesn't alleviate the itch. It's like an itch that cannot be scratched. I don't get that sensation on my right hand....but it's the numbest of the two.
Those phantom sensations are so irritating....I've gotten the ones that feels like something wet on your skin, the bugs crawling sensation and the sandpaper.
One thing I have noticed is that when this particular sx is acting up....whichever hand is affected.....the nails grow like crazy! It's so strange.....the little nail tech that gave me my pedicure asked me how I got my fingernails to grow so nice and strong.
I told her that my method is an old family secret but she probably doesn't want to try it!
