Pain Description...?

I get nerve pain most nights.  I think it must have to do with being tired.  I work full time still, so I am busy busy.  about 4 o'clock most afternoons, I start getting pain.  It starts with "bengay boots" ......icy-hot.  Later it might progress to a bad sunburn.  If I am really lucky, it will turn into a skin being peeled off with a dull knife.  The worse it gets, the more I get herky-jerky restless legs as well.  Thankfully, I wake with no pain.

Fun fun!!

Nope.  It's pretty much every evening.  Most of my symptoms are consistent.  I don't have too much that comes and goes.  I am very grateful for waking pain free.

I have constant (albeit mild) vertigo, constant balance issues.  My lower legs (mid shin) and feet are numb on a skin level.  I can feel pressure.  I feel cuts or injuries as heat.  I recently dropped a peanut butter jar and thought I missed my foot.  The next day my big toenail was black and blue.  My left thumb is numb as are some places on my left hand.  I have coordination problems with my hands, especially my left.  I have mild nystagmus.  I can have some variations in my symptoms but for the most part, I have symptoms every minute of everyday.  It depends on the amount of damage done to your spine or brain via lesions. 

I did once lose the vision in my right eye.  It gradually came back.  It took four months. 

Since it is mild, you just learn to deal with it.  I don't have it too much when sitting or lying down unless I move my head real fast.  While standing and walking, I do have the constant sensation that I am on something that is moving or swaying a little.  My body thinks it has to constantly adjust to this movement.  I do better if I lean against something solid like a counter, table, wall or couch etc.

When the vertigo is bad, I will get nauseous.  Ginger can help with that.  The doctor has perscribed meclizine with valium if I am vomiting.  I only use it if things are really bad because all I do is sleep on it.........better than barfing!

I feel blessed that I am not worse off.  I can walk well; I have strong legs, I just have to watch the balance.  I can also see pretty well.