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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.