The past week or so I've had maybe 3-4 instances where I'll be laying down to go to sleep and I feel an electric shock sensation in my brain. Always on the left side (but I'm laying on my left side) and it just lasts a second or two. It doesn't really hurt but it feels like someone's jolted me and it does cause my upper body to kind of jerk. I also hear a kind of zapping bam! in my head at the same instant.

Just wanted to get an idea of someone has felt this and if it's attributed to MS, as I thought the L'ermittes thing was only from the neck down.

I know that it can be caused by certain psych meds but I am not on any that have that side effect, nor have I been for a long time.

My other question is about drop foot. My neuro said I have an abnormal gait and it has gotten worse from what I can tell. But, from what I've seen/read it's not quite a drop foot situation. I can lift my toes, flex my foot if I am told to or try to. But when I'm just walking along normally I often drag my right foot, the toe of my shoe will scrape the sidewalk. It's annoying because it causes me to stumble a lot and I get mad at myself because if I pay attention to how I'm walking I can lift my foot how it should be.

I'd like to know if this is truly not drop foot and maybe I'm just shuffling along too much and need to concentrate more on how I'm walking? I hate walking in front of my neuro because it's never natural, I'm always concentrating on how I'm walking in front of him because I know he's concentrating on it also. LOL. I wish he'd just spy on me walking to my kid's bus stop or something so he'd get a better idea of how my natural walking pattern are. Kidding. It's silly, the pressure of walking in front of a doctor! Ahhh!



Ruth

No dx, symptoms for 2 years.