Usually when I feel the Hug, it feels like an ache in my ribs...kind of similar to what your legs would feel like when you're doing a lot of walking and the muscles get sore from over use. Like something is pulling on the muscles.

Last May tho, when I had that flare with all the spasticity, it felt like a giant python was squeezing me to death while simultaneously someone was stabbing me repeatedly with knives in multiple places. It really really really really hurt. I always thought that optic nerve pain was the worst pain I ever felt, it still is, but the pain from that spasticity was the 2nd worst. It lasted a lot longer than the optic nerve pain I had when I had ON tho... Last summer's Hug lasted about a month and a half.

Only thing that helped it was using my mom's TENS unit. Put the electrodes from her TENS on my ribs and then set the thing to stun. About as high as I could get the dials to go. The pain from the TENS was a lot easier to take than the spasticity.