I had a feeling I had ms to blame for this.. it seems if anything weird, bizarre, or abnormal is happening, its always ms related. Such an odd disease we share, and dangerous at that too! I was trying to cook the other day and realized my hand had been sitting on the 425 degree cooking rack. Yeah my knuckles look disgusting, ms won that round. Good thing is, since I can't feel my hands, the pain from the burns is very minimal for how badly they're burnt. So I feel I won that round. HA! =)

That's happened to me several times before. It's the left hand that I can't feel heat very well. Sometimes the message that I'm burning takes 45 minutes to an hour to get to my brain. Other times, it never makes it. I can feel cold much better than heat in that hand. My last flare it effected both hands.

Did you try the ice water? Did it help?

I was diagnosed with abnormal swallowing by a dentist a year before I was diagnosed with MS.

I don't get the same sensation midway down as you've described, but what I do get is a feeling as though there's a blockage in my upper throat. I have to bend my head down to swallow at times to avoid this difficulty (the food will go down, but at times it's very uncomfortable).

Recently it was at it's worst... it was like I was hitting something in the back of my throat and it was uncomfortable (not painful) to swallow even liquids. Again, tilting the head down (chin to neck) was the way I found to get around this.