Mezazinine said...
Hi everyone,
I relatively new to having MS so please pardon my ignorance. I'll occasionally develop tingling that I've never experienced before. However, it doesn't last very long. Sometimes it's as short as less than one min to a couple of hours. This has happened to me several times now. I know the standard definition of a relapse as being " a new symptom or reoccurence of an old one that lasts at least 24 hours".
Since these new symptoms hang around for hours at most, I'm not really sure they're relapses but then what are they? Does this mean that new lesions have developed?
OK...a small confusion here. You "develop tingling that I've never experienced before." but then you say, "This has happened to me several times now..."
Sensory stuff is in itself a "symptom". Sensory stuff can manifest itself as tingling, numbness, sometimes a feeling of water running down your leg (or arm), hot or cold sensation when the rest of the limb is "normal"...all sorts of weird sensations (which is why it's called "sensory".) So no, probably not a new relapse, or even new lesions...
just that..the circuitry in your brain, and from your brain to various body parts, is "broken" - -affected by lesions in your brain...and so signals get through imperfectly, resulting in weird sensations from time to time, as areas of your body try to respond to imperfect signals from the brain.
Seems pretty ordinary circumstances in someone who has MS.... but then...