Defining BFS: Paresthesia?

[LindsayCohen7]

Just curious - Defninitions of BFS I've seen say it includes twitching, cramps and/or paresthesia. Does paresthesia include tingling as well as the little popping and fizzing sensations? I get things like quick chills running through areas as well. Is it all one in the same?

 

[SharonSmoove]

Hi.I used to get those chills. Kind of like a shiver that runs right down your body. Really weird. Haven't had it for ages butknow exactly what you mean.Sharon

 

[simonw00]

Hi there. Wikipidea has the following definition - paraesthesia in British English, pron. /ˌpæɹɪsˈθiʒə/) is a sensation of tingling, pricking, or numbness of a person's skin with no apparent long-term physical effect. It is more generally known as the feeling of "pins and needles" or of a limb being "asleep". I contribute to this site as a fellow BFS sufferer but I happen to be a doctor too and I use the term to describe a variety of changes in sensation, all of which seem to occur to BFS patients. It specifically does NOT include symptoms to do with muscles i.e. twitching/ cramp.CheersSimon

 

[kylespike]

Mine sort of feels like a permanent draft on my leg....like someone left the door open.

 

[ValgerAce59]

Hi all~~ I just wanted to add that this is also the feeling I've been having lately, and I don't see it described like "cold wet feet" that often, but that is how I would describe what I've been having. I will feel sometimes when I'm walking around the house barefoot like I just stepped on a wet spot, and the tingling I'm getting in my body would be better described as saying that water just hit me. Does this sound familiar to anyone? I just posted a new post on my experience with the doctor this week, but basically now I'm worried about MS. I've had bodywide twitching for 2 years, and this sensory stuff is new to me. Also, I've been getting some dizzy spells, nothing really bad, just now and then. Does this sensory stuff go along with BFS? But, what if I've been having the twitching for two years, and then suddenly this comes up? It doesn't really make sense to me. I'm worried that I have progressing MS. Also, I have ringing in the ears, and I have no idea if I'm just suddenly tuned into it, but it's bugging me. I did read where thats associated with MS, but theres also alot of other reasons for it. Anyway, thanks for all the help on here, I would feel so scared without this place!! Val

 

[Danners2Dan]

I have horrible parasthesia; I have noticed it longer before I notice the fasciculations as something wrong.Even more, I have paresthesia in my feet, in my arms, in my hands, even in my head if I sleep or stay in a bad position. And still more, I have parasthesia ALL the time when I wake up in the mornings, in the small and fourth finger of my right hand, and sometimes also in the same fingers of my left hand.It feels different depending on the place. In the feet is horrible, because if I start moving the foot affected, it makes a kind of pain and I have problems moving the foot for some seconds. And the parasthesia of my two fingers, does not produce pain, but I lose completely the sensitivity of those fingers for a while.. but I can move both very well (without feeling them).Right now I am having parasthesia in my left foot, because I cross the legs when I am in from of the computer.

 

[PrickLedPin]

Paresthesia = Abnormal sensation in absence of a defined cause.---Put your hand on a "hot" surface = "burning sensation" with a defined causeLooking to a TV program and feeling a sudden "burning sensation" in left hand = paresthesia because no defined cause.---You can invent any kind of sensation (tingling/freezing/chill/PrickLedPin/prickly feeling/water flowing on the skin/sun burn/ ... etc).