41 Y/O MALE WITH ARM AND LEG WEAKNESS AND LOSS OF FLEXIBILITY. ALSO EXPERIENCING ELECTRICAL SHOCK SENSATIONS THAT ARE BRIEF AND VERY INTENSE. SHOCK ALWAYS ORIGINATES FROM A SPOT ON MY CHEST AND EXTENDS TO MY LEFT PINKIE FINGER SIMULTANEOUSLY.
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5/22/09 7:00pm
Hi CDH41,
Electric shock sensation? How frightening since it happens in your chest and finger at the same time. I do not have an answer for that particular area. However, I have read of people experiencing that same feeling in different body areas from the head to the third toe of one foot. This is real, but is it MS?
I have trigeminal neuralgia (TN) which I describe as a lighting storm in my mouth when it attacks. That sounds like the same thing. You don't have to have MS to have TN, but MS seems to make it more intense. It happens when a nerve is disturbed in any way. I tell you this because my doctor gave me a pill I take every day, and the attacks do not come as often.
Please talk with your doctor. Be ready to say how often it happens, how long it lasts, and if you can identify what triggers it. Don't hesitate because you think the doctor will look at you funny. It happens to enough people in different situations so we know it is a valid medical complaint. There may be some treatment that reduces the chances of that shock being triggered.
Good luck, and let us know. Thanks.
7/ 9/09 4:51pm
For the past 8 years I have experienced stabbing electrical pain in the top of my head, left thigh and forearm and the left side of my face-in the past six months the pain has occured a few times in my right leg. I get it much like a summer lightening storm-it occurs out of nowhere-sometimes once a week, other times off and on throughout the day-sometimes it is one 'jab' and other episodes the area seems to be quivering with electrical pain that stabs off and on.
This type of pain is fairly common among us MSers-the Nation MS Society has several good articles that discuss it. I take neurontin, which helps, I guess. The best help from prescriptions for me came from Topamax that I no longer am able to take due to insurance probs.Analgesic pain meds make absolutely no difference.
For me--heat can be helpful and sometimes firm massage (for some odd reason touch can seem to set it off again when I am having a the 'quivery' kind). The hardest part is the 'out of the blue' nature of it. It can be bad enough to make me cry out or double over-not the way one wants to act at work or church. It helps that I know it will end and I can go hours or days without it occuring.
7/29/11 6:31am
I have a sharp and constant pain in my knees and elbows like exposed nerves. It use to occur only while resting. Now it happens 24 hours a day. I live in Ukraine. There is no medical care here. This pain is like they are drilling my bones. I was diagnosed with MS about 4 years ago. I am 28 years old. I am confined to my apartment. I can barely walk but my biggest problem is my constant pain. Can you give me some advice?
irina
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have been suffering with sever intense pain from electric shock sensation. Ive had this for over 10 weeks now , iam also in a relapse, the pain is so very intense, and answer to the above regarding crying out aloud. oh yes i cry out with the pain, you just dont know what to do to overcome the sharp stabbing pain. Iam holding my forearm willing the pain to stop. No amount of painkillers are helping, the only way i can get relief is to take my amitriptyline, and gabapentine tablets, which obviously make me sleep. (then i dont feel the pain). I was diagnosed in 1997 with ms, although they believe ive actually had ms since 1983. I also have beta interferon injections too, plus much more medication. I just wish this relapse would end, the tense trapped nerve feeling in lower limbs is actually quite painful too. Anyway there are more people so much worse than me, i just want this relapse to end. best wishes to other ms sufferers.