# MS hug - advice/help needed please

**URL:** <https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/t/ms-hug-advice-help-needed-please/20886>\
**Category:** Everyday living\
**Created:** [7 March 2013 16:06 UTC](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/t/ms-hug-advice-help-needed-please/20886 "2013-03-07T16:06:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [7 March 2013 16:06 UTC](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/t/ms-hug-advice-help-needed-please/20886/1 "2013-03-07T16:06:32Z")

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Hello

i didnt realise this exisited till my last visit to the specialist when i mentioned pains ive been getting in my ribs, i thought it was unrelated to MS but he said its due to lesions in my spinal cord. He pricked me with a pin all up my front and back and i have a band of numbness all around the bottom of my ribs. Since then ive realised ive been getting a lot of pains lower, around my lower abdomen, not like period pains but in the same area, sometimes quite sharp stabbing pains. I was just wondering if you can get these bands all down your spinal cord, if anyone has similar pains or if i should be concerned that these lower pains are not MS related and maybe something more sinister?

any help or advice would be really appreciated

Thanks

Catherine