I dont understand.

Are you saying that if you've got an appendage that's tingling, and it starts hurting instead of tingling...that, that means you're progressing from RRMS to SPMS??? That doesnt quite sound right to me. At least that's how I interpreted SallyC's response.

I would think that if your numb area is tingling and starting to have pain where there was once numbness, then that would be the nerves trying to regenerate after an exacerbation/flare, and that maybe after awhile the pain might lessen and you'll end up with (hopefully) normal sensation again.

I think I'd rather have pain than numbness. At least when it hurts, you can tell that it's there, when you're numb, you can never quite tell where the numb appendages are, and numbness is a hell of a lot more disturbing of a sensation than pain is to me.