I learned a new word today when I was reading my book “Women Living With Multiple Sclerosis” – by Judith Lynn Nichols — Lhermitte’s Sign – another word for electric shocks or tingling up and down the spine to the legs, arms neck area. WOW! Finally there is a word for this.  I looked it up on the internet — yep! these are some of the things I suffer from – check it out – the website is http://www.neurologychannel.com/multiplesclerosis/symptoms.shtml – interesting stuff.

Wouldn’t it be great if the tingling stopped? Maybe I could get a decent nights sleep for a change. I know that when I lay in bed the legs and butt tingle for hours – I have to lay there and will myself to sleep. My feet tingle – worse than my legs. It is very hard to concentrate so that I can try to go to sleep right away. Usually takes about 1 to 2 hours to finally ignore the tingling and go to sleep. This started about 2 years ago with my last attack and it hasn’t really gone away.

Myra called me today from our MS group, she was having a bad day. She suffers from tingling all over her body and has to rest. She was not feeling all that great so we talked for a while. I shared the new word I found – she said she would ask her doctor and see if that is what it is. Sometimes the tingling leaves you feeling zapped – no energy at all. Have to sit down and rest. I’m wondering if she and I have the same thing. I wonder when walking if that makes this Lhermitte’s sign worse – the tingling does not stop. Something to think about.