Allodynia.

This is one reason it's good to have someone with you at a doctor's visit, or to always take P&P to take notes - we all need memory aids, especially when working in a foreign language (medicalese).

What puzzles me is that I get this sort of thing on occasion - maybe even a few days at a time, like a flare - but it comes & goes (which I'll take as a good thing), so I'm not sure if it's really allodynia or not. Sometimes it seems to be in my joints & soft tissue rather than skin, so again I'm not sure if it qualifies as the same thing.

Doc