Doc appt yesterday & that nasty tingling

Hi Everybody,

I went to the doctor yesterday and he had an interesting alternative approach for those annoying/enough to drive you nutty sometimes buzzing/tingling/throbbing in our extremeties that I would like to share.  Mine is mostly in my legs, and with increased exercises I've been trying here, my legs are driving me crazy.  My whole lower body will throbb.  Anyway, after the usual 'let's up your Neurontin', he asked if I ever tried distraction techniques which, of course, I do.  Well, he said try this...get some of that arthritis/muscle cream - you know, like the icy/hot stuff or something similar - and rub that ABOVE where you are experiencing those sensations and he says it will immediately draw your brain's attention away from the buzz.  I'm going to give it a try today.  Heck, get the stuff without the smell and who knows?  I'm willing to try anything including rubbing gooey junk on me.  He says he has an MS lady who is already up to rediculous amounts of Gabapentin and this helps her.  Just thought I would pass it on.  Hope everyone is having a good day today :)

Gentle Hugs

Sandi

Sorry to bump this back up but I'm sitting here with my legs up in a recliner and the buzz/tingling in my feet and lower legs has been really annoying this morning so I thought what the heck, I'll try the Icy/Hot spray I got. Sprayed it just above my knees and gotta say Wow! It actually worked! At this moment I'm not noticing any pain in my feet or lower legs on the front at all. I think I'm going to try spraying it on the back of my knees and see if it does anything for the ache in my achilles. Huh. Who would have thought? Btw, if you decide to try this, the spray is not smelly after a little burst of not icky smell at the beginning and it dries shiny so you don't have to wait as long as I did thinking it was still wet to pull your pant leg back down. Hope it helps somebody else. I'm actually pretty impressed and the icy/hot part I might have to see if that won't be bothersome. We'll see. Probably could get something a little milder but either way, I'm still at wow.