Early MS Signs: Could It Be?

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sanjay

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Anyone else wonder with the following symptoms (along with twitching) that they may have MS?Burning skintinglingachingpins and needles..........I have this trouble in both legs.............scared it could be early MS signs?Anyone?ThanksJanet
 
Hi Janet!I have had the burning skin feeling a couple of times, seems to be on my arms and only lasts a very short time. I have pins and needles frequently in my fingers and hands. Along with the twitching that is constant it is just some other crazy symptoms of BFS!!Warm regardsSandra
 
Janet,Almost everyone on this site has exerperienced some or all of these. I have as well. You truly have BFS since MS does not present with the twitching along with a number of other reasons as well.Be well.Kit
 
Hi Janet,I've had all of the symptoms you mentioned and more for over 30 years. Originally I thought I had MS as well. I had read an article about MS symptoms and I misunderstood; I thought that the fasics I was experiencing were actually the spasms that MS sufferers have. There was no internet, or MRI's at the time, so I spent a lot of time worrying about MS. I wish I would have had this support system a long time ago, great people---- Best Wishes, Denise
 
Forgot to mention, I know Kit stated that MS doesn't present this way--I remember my 1st neuro over 30 years ago told me the same thing.Denise
 
I have had these same symptoms in varying intensity for the last 10 years. I have had enough tests now to feel 100% confident that it is not MS related and is BFS. I understand the fear though because I went through the same thing. In fact, I was never concerned about ALS like many here are, only MS. Something I was told by a neuro which helped me quite a bit was that my symptoms were too widespread to be MS. I mean really, they are everywhere and I would have to have lesions all over my brain to be causing the symptoms that I have. But I have also had this confirmed with MRI's too. All of the symptoms you have can 100% be related to BFS.
 
Kit may be able to add to this, but one thing I found in some obscure information, I think it was on Mayo's site talking about deficiencies in cerebral circulation and stroke, was the concept of positive or negative symptoms. I'll try to locate the cite, which explains the difference between positive or negative much better than I could. Our BFS sensory symptoms are usually very positive in nature, such as a feeling of electricity in limbs, vibration, etc. Negative or "ablative" symptoms, the feeling of something missing--actual numbness, clinical weakness, etc., are more suggestive of lesions that interrupt nervous flow. MS would create more negative symptoms in presentation. That's why twitching is never mentioned as an onset symptom of MS, nor "positive" paresthesias, but usually numbness or some other deficit.Many of us have gone through the MS fear in our dealing with BFS, believe me.-Dave
 
I never worried one bit about ALS, my big fear is MS also. See, my gram had it, she was diagnosed when she was 60. I have been dealing with weird sensory issues for 8 years now. I have had my entire spine MRI done, twice, and two brain MRIs and a ton of bloodwork, and they tell me that I'm normal. I was sick really bad when this all started 8 years ago, and after the nausea and appetite lose went away, I started feeling these weird bug crawling sensations, and I have had them everyday since. But I do remember before the buggy feelings started, I said to my husband one night at the dinner table, look at my arm, its twitching, and it continued for about 45 min, then sometimes it would do it in my stomach, felt like a baby kicking, and then my other arm. One evening while in bed I got a terrible pain in my shoulder and it hurt to take a deep breath, I figure it was a spasm, I still get this, I had my husband take me to the ER, I thought I was having a heart attack, they told me there that my heart was fine. So, I don't know, my neuro says maybe a post viral thing, well geesh, how long will this last, maybe forever she replied. I think about MS everyday, my neuro wanted to do a LP and I refused because she said without lesions, even a positive lp I couldn't be diagnosed. Sooo, I still don't know what I have, I just can't get the MS thing out of my mind, even though I have never had numbness, like my gram, I still feel that some day, maybe it will show and I will be diagnosed, but until then, I try to keep busy, and live the best I can. I am in no means disabled, just a worry wart you could say. Hey, if it turns out that I do have it, then I will have to deal with it, and let me tell you, it won't be easy. Jen
 

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