MS and Neuropathy
 

I just moved back to Indiana and have a new neuro and he has me going thru a whole bunch of tests and one of them was an EMG where they shock you. Well, doing my legs, the doctor asked if I have diabetes and I said no why, and she said well, you have neuropathy in your right leg and foot that's why your in so much pain in that leg. She says my neuro will go into more details when I have a follow up with him. Does anyone else have neuropathy do to the MS?

yes.

Numbness in the feet, legs, and hands. And other various and sundry places.

Neuropothy
 

Hi Kitty,

I must have had it long ago, although the doc's never named it for me then. Mine was found as part of the standard Evoked Potentials testing. For me, besides the numbness and tingling in both feet, I had what someone else had named, "Bunched Socks Syndrome". If I tried to curl my toes it felt like I had cotton balls or a sock bunched up all along the underside of all ten toes. It's lasted for years.

Mine never caused pain, just annoying and constant numbness, tingling, and my feet always feeling cold. It still does 20 years later. I guess that's neuropathy - it is caused by sensory nerve damage.

MsBluIs

I experience the pain from neuropathy...sometimes electric shocks, sometimes stabbing pain.
I not only get it in my feet and legs, i get it also in the muscles around my eyeballs, and in some delicate places as well. I hate it.
I was on gabapentin for it, but stopped taking it because it didn't help much but it did make me exhausted.

They wanted to stick a needle in my muscle and then do a shock and I said oh no you don't!!!! That's the only part I absolutely refused to do!

Both of my feet are numb to a degree. It gets worse if I have some sort of infection anywhere in my body.

My Neuro hasn't ever diagnosed it as neuropathy but I assume it's sensory nerve damage caused by MS.

I, too, get the sporadic shocks and pains all over my body. Plus, I have itching on my back almost constantly. My Dad had this specific symptom, too.

I take enough medications and don't want to add another one but I might just have to if it gets worse.

I too have it in both of my feet. Kelly, I have been itching off and on all over my stomach for weeks. It is driving me crazy. Nothing seems to help.

Every time you kids talk about itching, I start itching.
It's like yawns....very catching.:D

Transverse myelitis with peripheral neuropathy. Can be challenging.

Yes, neuropathy has got me also.

I live in Indiana, what part are you in? I live in extreme southwestern. like where Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana meet

I think a lot of us have neuropathic pain. I know some of us have peripheral neuropathy, some have autonomic neuropathy, and some of us have both. It just goes with the territory of MS.

The worst for me is in the rib cage. It's quite painful there. I get the burning feet, which I quickly learned that ice is not the answer to helping them.:eek::D I also have damaged nerves in my stomach/GI tract (autonomic neuropathy).

Let us know what your doctor says!:hug:

Doydie, Im in Lafayette, so I believe that's central IN. If your not sure where its at, its North of Indy.. by about an hour or so.

KittyLady, I live in Evansville which is about as southwestern as you can get. Well I think New Harmony and Mt Vernon are a little closer to the Illinois border but we are as close to Kentucky as there is. We share the Ohio River with Kentucky