Thread: Maybe PN....Maybe something else
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Old 03-21-2011, 04:40 AM
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Oddly enough it's just laying down. I've never had it happen any other time now that I think about it. However it sounds like it could be such a wide varity of things. Good heavens I had no idea. Thank you so much for the info. Best of luck to all of us.

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Originally Posted by glenntaj View Post
--upon touching chin to chest?

There is a name for this phenomenon--L'hermitte's sign--and it suggests damage to the dorsal cervical cord and or dorsal spinothalamic tracts. It is very common in multiple sclerosis, but also can be caused by cervical vertebrae or disc pressure on the spinal cord, B12 deficiency, and a host of other things. It can also be drug-induced--many chemotherapy patients have reported it.

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lhermitte%27s_sign

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2447962/

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijol/2010/907960/
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