Most excellent discription of spasticity, pain and numbness.:winner_first_h4h:

I'm learning...lol

I have always thought of it as tight elastic bandages being wrapped around my legs, but I love your description.

Cheers

Lym

The different kinds of 'numbness' to MS is just straight craziness!

My hands and arms get a freezing cold and burning hot sensation at the same time (which after a while of dealing with that starts to drive me slightly mad, those temps should never be put together at the same time). I also have a really hard time being able to feel my finger tips and the textures of things.

My legs and feet do the tingly feels like they're falling asleep kind of numb with pressure building up inside? ..

and the worse..
Right side abdomen- numb but feels like a sunburn being scratched with a Brillo pad. -- that numbness is VERY PAINFUL. Went on everyday for 4 months last summer, finally subsided a lil while ago and will hopefully never come back.

Oh the bizarre MS sensations :cool:

OUCH!!!!!

That sounds nasty. I hope it doesn't come back for you either.

When I was taking Beta, I used to feel like I was sunburned all over, and then rubbed down with sand. No numbness about that, but I am feeling for you.

Lyn

My leg feels like i've wrapped selotape around it and it's digging in. my feet are freezing even on nights of 30 degrees, i have a water bottle.
Other days, there's a stitch threaded through my limbs but the cotton isnt quite long enough.
My hand used to feel like i had a plastic glove on and was under water (so the glove stuck to my skin).
Any combination of these things results in altered sensation for me but never true numbness, because i can still feel something...

There is an excellent article in the most recent NMSS magazine MOMENTUM which addresses this. The title is "The nerve dance: Numbness and tingling". Dr. Stephen Krieger, MD, says "Numbness is a loss of the ability to feel, while tingling is an abnormal or unusual sensation. They often go together."

I hope I did the link thing to the article right, if not you can go to www.nationalmssociety.org and read the article (the whole magazine) online.

The link: http://publications.nationalmssociet...g2012?folio=30

I have that issue but somehow missed that article.:confused: Anyhow, thanks for posting that B2Y. It is a good article.

Describing "numbness"
 

This is definitely a tough one---thanks for posting this b/c now I don't feel like such an idiot for not being able to describe it

I've just begun to have problems with "numbness" in my left arm and leg--which fluctuates from tingling stiffness to and ice cold "burning. It is generally a weird feeling which makes it very difficult to walk b/c I don't feel my leg hitting the ground right:):

Thanks so much for this B2Y - the article was fascinating and made me feel so much more sane than I do when I try to explain this stuff to others :)