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Originally Posted by MSacorn Socks, that's my biggest problem. Especially my right foot. The socks can't be to tight or thin. They spin around my foot, literally, I don't know why. Also it feels like the sock material is caught between my toes, but to look at it, I know it's not. Weird stuff.

I thought I was the only person on earth with this problem!

It is the same thing happening again; each time I feel I am really having something unique going on someone else has it too!

I can't wear sox at all because it feels they are all bunched up when they aren't! I wear hose or...nothin'!

bras are not my problem, its my tee shirts worn inside out or backwards, can usually tell its on backwards, after to 6th or 7th time i tug at the neck cause its choking me

Glad to hear you're not having a problem with your bra Frank! I remember you saying how much you hate it when that happens!!

Julie, I get the same thing from time to time (the itching) but it's usually on my back and right in that one little area that you can't reach either from above or below. So annoying!! It usually preceeds a flare up - that's one way I can tell I'm going to have one is my back starts itching in that one little spot.

I've been having this same sensation but only on the right side - the side currently affected by my ongoing flare. Right in the rib cage area sometimes it feels like something is squeezing so tight it might crack a rib! Very painful. I can't even get a good, deep breath when the pain is at it's worst.

Ahhhh.....such fun.

Dressing is a daily challenge for me. Some days I can wear jeans, others the texture drives me nuts. I cannot wear anything "fitted" as it can sometimes cause spasms.

And shoes, well thats a whole different issue. I can't wear them. I wear flip flops or slippers. I have so many pretty heeled shoes. I miss wearing my wedge sandals. I miss wearing heels. I just can't wear any shoe that encloses my whole foot. Something I truly don't understand but it happens.

I cant stand my hiking shoes. Which I have to wear this winter because we've been having a freakish amount of snow. I have to loosely tie them because I hate having my feet in them.

If there's no snow on the ground and it's dry outside, I've been wearing my summer shoes. Crocs. They shoes made out of a rubbery type of foam. Sooooo comfy! I saw that they make winter Crocs now, they have fake sheepskin inside the Crocs now, I just cant find any here in town that will fit me. All I've seen are childrens winter Crocs. No adult ones.

hmmm...makes me think.

Well, I'm an odd 'fit' anyway. I'm weird about wearing jewelry; drives me nuts to have something around my neck.

Clothing has always been a problem for me. Not so much the feel, but the fit.

I'm short (under 5'4) and now overweight. I used to be very thin. I have a long torso in respect to my short legs. I sound pretty odd don't I

This makes clothing hard to find. If it fits my waist and hips it doesn't fit my 'length' and I'm not up to shortening stuff. If it fits the length it's usually tight in the rise.

I don't like bras that squeeze me under the breast area. Hate that feeling; or underwires that dig in (men have it so easy in this regard!).

I must have comfy shoes too. I hate foot pain or slippage.

I can't wear crocs or any of the open heel type shoes....my foot is small and narrow and I'll walk right out of them!

I know this is not MS related. I'm just not the 'typical' size now days.

Tootsie

Not all Crocs are open heel...the ones I have, have a heel strap. I have to wear my Crocs with the heel strap because I'll also walk out of my shoes.

It was suggested to you that your discomfort was not likely to be MS because it was intermittent- i can see the point of the post but i do not entirely agree. I also noite that someone said that you donot have confirmed MS- so my comments are based more on the concept of neuropathic pain/discomfrt regardless of the underlying cause/ neuro pathic discomfort certainly does not have to be a constant issue to exist- i am an RN plus a person with neuro pain ( my comments are based on both). I have a condition called Reflex sympathetic Dystrophy that leads to severe neuropathic pain, i am an amputee who sufferes phantom pain (also a neuropathic pain syndrome) and i have highly reactive RRMS with numerous neuropathic pain [roblems. The one thing that i know for sure about neuro painis that while it can be constant for some, it can also come and go- i will go for weeks without phantom pain only then to be kept awake for days on end with severe pain ( no rhyme or reason as to what caused it), it will be so severe that it feels i ma being hit with a cattle prod, it makes me yelp in pain. IF you think that this may be a neuro pathic problem ( you do not need MS to have such an issue- RSD is the classic example, it starts after minor injury but leads to extremely disabling symptoms)- talk to your Dr, there are no magic cures but the drugs such as lyrica and neurontin can make a very big difference. On the non drug idea, its is easy to try to avoid touching the area that hurts to avoid pain but ultimately this can make things worse, the area gets more and more sensitive to less stimulation- for example people with severe phantom pain will often minimise the discomfort by a techniqu e called counter irritation- in my case this means that when i get pain in my stump i will sit and continuosly lightly slap the affending area- gradually you no longer feel the pain but feel the slaps instead ( the NS can only transmit the one type of impusle at a time is the theory) some people will use TENS units to provide the counterirritation. Obvioulsy, if may not be a neuro thing, it could be to do with detergents etc- you can test this by eliminations. eg go back to just soap and water rather than powerful detergents, eliminate fabric softener for a while etc etc to see if it helps but also talk to you PCP about the issue, he is probably the best situated to look at the issue from a more global point rather than whether or not it is MS

5Kidz,

I can't STAND t-shirts anymore. I used to sleep in them all the time and had a few favs. But they really, really bother me--especially under the arms anymore. The only thing that I can sleep in (if I sleep in something) is a tank top with wide arm holes. Generally, however, that bothers me too and I end up ripping it off in the middle of the night.

Mom,

What you're describing is what I felt like for a good long time in 2003. I had the burning sensation and I even developed a red mark where my underwear band was that didn't go away for 3 or 4 days one time (and I'm not allergic to anything like fabric softeners, soap, or latex). It happened in the bra area too--where the bottom part goes around your chest. And yes, I hear ya when you talk about the hair being rubbed the wrong way. I could have jumped when the breeze blew the wrong way and went against my skin. Ouchy!!

Hang in there. It sucks.

Neurontin helped me with that kind of stuff. It helped a lot. Of course, I ended up being on about 2400 mg. of it a day before it did too much for me, but I'm off it now and it's all good.