Scalp pain?

Hey all. I haven't been on too much as I started a new job with funny hours, and I have been having what I think is a flare after going almost a week with minimal symptoms. I've just had horrible achy legs and now this semi-new, extremely irritating muscle twitching. It is CONSTANT and so annoying. But this morning I was putting my hair into a ponytail and just brushing my hand across the top of my scalp suddenly caused pain. I lightly touched the spot with my fingertip again to see what would happen, and OUCH. It hurts to touch it even the slightest bit in this one spot on the left side. Oddly, pressing down hard on the spot doesn't seem to hurt - it's just the light brush against skin that hurts. Has anyone had this before? Is it normal to get such a sore spot on the scalp? It is kind of freaking me out, since between this and the twitches I've got myself convinced that the doctor's missing something and I actually have a brain tumor or something serious. Help!

Hi,

You have described me, your twin, to a tee. I have the bad achy legs and twitches. They are in my legs constantly, called fasciculations. They calm every now and then but return. Now onto the scalp. Mine can be tender as the pre dickens and yes, even painful to the lightest touch.

Let me know about your twitches.

Patsie

For the world that is how mine are. You are the first person to mention them and I have asked on our forum. They fatigue my legs so much after constant firing. Yes, they are a symptom of Fibro and YES I absolutely do the mg/malic combo. It has really helped with my cramping which was pretty bad for awhile. Now the fasciculations have not resolved. That is a neurological problem well associated with fibro.

I do my best to ignore them but it can be difficult. Mine are primarily in my calf muscles so far.

Patsie

Oh patsie, although I wouldn't wish the "itchy twitchies" as I like to call them, on anyone, I am glad not to be alone in this, since I was fearing I had something new and horrible. We should keep each other updated on things that help! When I first talked to my doc about them he said it was just part of RLS, but this is not just when I am sitting still, or lay down and rest, it is becoming more than that. I am planning to call the doc tomorrow just to talk to him, as I usually do with "new symptoms." I feel like a regular hypochondriac but, oh well.

Donna, I got the shivers just from you describing that! My hair is almost always in a ponytail and I get that scalp pain from that sometimes, but the pain I had today was different. It is so weird, just like one concentrated spot of sharp pain when I brush lightly against it. When I press down on it, nothing. Maybe it's a nerve thing, I had a similar situation in my arm last year.

Oh it never ends, does it?

Hey there!!

I got my hair cut much shorter because of the scalp pain thing, it would realllllly hurt.  I, too, wore a ponytail alot or the half up half down pony thingo.  Sometimes the scalp pain would give me a major headache.  Hubby liked my hair long but it had to go.

I don't get leg twitches, but I do get them in my arms and my eyelid (usually the left eye), very annoying and after a while the area that twitches starts to hurt.  I had that twitch in my eyelid for about 4 - 5 months, before I left my job.  about 2 months after I've left, it stopped.  I think it was stress.  One of my friends that I have always suspected to have Fibro, complains about eyelid twitches too.

Hope you feel better soon!!