I finally managed some time to watch the Montel videos. He seems to have been hit hard in his emotional area of the brain. Some PWMS cry without reason, of burst out laughing without a funny thing going on. It hits us all different, as we all know.

As for the MS Hug, I have it all the time, worse at night, and it even really gets more painful when I relapse. I thought is was described more of muscles in spasms rather than freezing of the diaphragm. That threw me off. It feels like labor, yes, as it starts and gets worse and then let's go, on to start again. Like contractions, a squeezing of real tightness, not a freezing up to me.

You think you can't breathe but you can. Even if more lightly. If I take a bigger breath at that time it hurts more. That is why I feel it is muscle spasm related. My first MS Specialist said it was spasticity. A tightening of chest, rib muscles from the back all around.

Some have it on the waist, the head area like a tight band, or even the arm or leg. The ribs seems worse for me, like my ribs might crack.

That nasty Hug and the burning (like Montel described) I have non stop, are my big issues besides, the fatigue if not carefully spaced over the day. Rest a must too, even if not a nap.

That's my take on the video. They were interesting Sally Thanks!