That's the only consistent thing with MS.....it's consistently inconsistent!

Makes me think of what Forrest Gump's mother told him..... but modified for MS. MS is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get (or for how long, either).

Craig, for me, that just begs the question. Do you have neuralgia on the butt. So sympathetic, neuralgia just sucks.

For many weeks, ice-pick stabbing horrible pain in my elbow made it impossible to sleep.
Previously I'd had pains in upper-back shoulder area like a build up of gas or something. Then a pain down my arm to outside of pinkie, then......Well you get it. Doctor gave me me some Vicotin. But, it's been a week or more, painfree, without any meds. I haven't done anything different I'm pretty sure. I'm PPMS, I've never remitted, just steadily progressed. But then pain jumps into equation and then just leaves???

MS. Like snow you never know when it will be, or how long it will last or how deep the pain will be.

Please kicker, if you choose to quote me do so accurately. Your version makes me sound like I was being mean and that is NOT the case or ME. So to clarify, however, I reserve the right to be totally wrong in my personal interpretation of your comment:
You also know if I did have neuralgia in my butt you would know about it.
Absolutely! I have neuralgia and am very familiar with its symptoms and signs. Only in my case, because of my disease, there is no meds for relief and I do the best I can. Humor helps the situation, well, most of the time.

Yeah Craig, Kicker is right...it's not nice to call us PITAs..

ROTFLM.........O!!!

I never thought of it like "THAT!"

I used to be on monthly infusions of IVSM with my old neuro...my current neuro has only ordered one-3day infusion. I feel better temporarily, but the sxs come back rather quickly.
I actually like being on it. I can walk like a regular adult, and the spasms are reduced. But my neuro says it fries my brain, so he's very conservative with ordering it. That's why I never bother calling him now when something new crops up. Why bother?

I never said you meant that! You people are just trouble-makers.

That is exactly what my pain felt like - Ice-pick stabbing above my knee and then burning above my knee. It is hard to describe and I have definately never felt anything like it before. After three days, it got better a little at a time. Now I have sesitivity when I touch the skin in that area but nothing I can't live with. Annoying to say the least! But the pain in the beginning was pretty intense. I see my Neuro the end of March and will fill him in on my new symptoms. Thanks for your comments!

Sooooooo true!!!

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