Hi,
I get electrical shocks in my face & down my back at times, but like you, have constant numbness & tingling mostly in my legs & feet. I've just learned to live with that though it's annoying & tiring....I'm on Copaxone off & on, just don't think it does much...been on solumedrol when it get real bad, but it never really goes away....but I'm still here & thankful for every day!

During the early phase of my MS, I used to get shocks down my back whenever I bent my head forward. Currently I have episodes where I experience short burst like sharp pains in my head. It is painful enough to stop me in my tracks. I have episodes like this perhaps 3 times a years. Goodie for me, because this is very painful. Fortunately, three or four "sets" of the sharp pains is all I experience. That is enough.

I read about this occurrence, as I get them when I'm resting. Keep searching, there is something out there unique for ms patients. I just can't remember the name of them.

google both l'hermites.....and TN pain.....l'hermites refers to when you tilt your head...you experience a shock like sensation in your body...it is different for alot of MS'ers.....and TN pain...most people experience in the jaw line...but like reply #2 i get them in my head when it happens...f.ast and painfull....sigh...

also for those who have the tingling...may i suggest that you have your b-12 level checked??...alot of people with ms have low b-12....it also causes tingling......i did...get the shots.....stopped alot of the tingling and the added benifiet.....gives you engery when you get the shot....grin...

luv
heather

I also experience the shocks all over my body when I bend my head down. I've consistanly had the pins and needles, mostly in my hands and arms. The first sign I knew something was wrong was my hands ( mostly right) were constanly numb and pins and needles. It got worse an worse. Very bothersomes. The other thing for me was this horrible itching. My whole upper back was covered with sores from itching. Now when I wake up every morning my arms burn like there on fire. Take neurotin and valum. Helps alot. After my first vit B12 shot I felt like a million bucks..then next one not so great. Want to start taking B and D.. see if that helps..

Heather - I'm new but welcome back too !!..

yes I had them and bad it went from my neck and down both arms wich paralized me for those few min. at a time I had to have a round of ivig s to stop it, it is nothing I hope to have again as it was very painful

Before nowadays I was getting crazy electric shocks that would zap my brain just before I could fall asleep...then I would'nt want to go to sleep...around the same time my legs would be hopping around maybe 5 times a night that does'nt seem to happen anymore...nowadays it feels like I have a consistent buzzing in my legs when I try to go to sleep. I want to ask my Dad if the house is grounded for electricity but of course that sounds crazy.

Here's me going to sleep...I laying down, tired enough for sleep. I am trying to stay so relaxed and it's fine...I can just barely hear my heartbeat...I'm not asleep yet and my heart beat is getting louder not faster but louder..and than louder...and than louder...than I switch sides...a little quieter...than louder...and louder...and then my legs start getting the electical buzzing not quite popcorn popping feeling...and I'm up again for another hour or two...then I finally get to sleep...and I wake up anywhere from 2 to 8 hrs later...woken up by the not quite popped popcorn feeling in my thighs...I don't take any meds...I am going to give it 3 or 4 more weeks and then I'll have to go to Doc I quess...

I have been getting shocks recently too, it's new and frustrating, what I get more of tho' and possibly was a precurser is "startle". I know something or someone is there, yet the action of my looking at them causes me to jump a mile and intake a huge breath, and make a verbal sound of surprise, then the current would pass through my entire body. Now I zap all the time.

i get these too Tom...DAILY!!....ANY & EVERYWHERE!! I started getting these several years ago...along with ALL my other neurological symptoms! Has anyone ever had a "SHOCK" to hit their "FUNNY BONE?" I have ....several times....& it drives me crazy!!...as sometimes it "ZAPS" me more than once...& talk about PAINFUL!!! :(
~tj