Hello… I’ve been trying to figure out an odd sensation in my back. It’s definitely not muscle… It’s definitely not like a spot.
It feels like the skin. Hurts. Sort of a cold burning stingy sensation but also not quite.like a band of it from my lower spine around to my side. I honestly can’t think of anything I have done to it, felt nothing like it before.
Can anyone else relate to what I’m saying? I rarely have MS symptoms and. They have all been sensory imt he past so I’m always second guessing.
Please help
I have had this for a good few years now on and off. It normally coincides with me being either run down or ill I’m undiagnosed but it’s been constant since I’ve had my eye and tingling/shaking sensation
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Hi Polo,
Its terrible when you have a feeling/sensation that you can’t describe or exactly pin-point? I have had a dull ache in my shoulder, neck, arm etc for 3 years I could never point to an area or explain the pain. My recent diagnosis of SPMS and Cervical Spondylosis now, all makes sense to everything else I have going on.
I feel your frustration, I hope you find your answers soon 
Hi @PoLo
I can relate to the sensation you’re describing, I also get something similar on the skin on my upper back that I would say is stingy, could be itchy and painfully sensitive.
There’s nothing to see so it’s not prickly heat and it covers quite a large area. To be honest mine just goes away by itself, usually when the weather has cooled, but it can hang around for weeks.
No idea if it’s MS related, sorry. I hope it gets better soon for you!
Xx
Hi PoLo
Is it topical or more within your body? I’m currently in hospital with cellulitis and whilst it is most common at the extremities, technically it can affect any part of the body.
I’ve had recurrent bouts of cellulitis (5 since 2008 in my left leg, plus right in April and again now). The original entry point may have been insignificant or completely oblivious of, but could be followed maybe a couple of weeks later with headaches, fatigue, skin sensitivity and perhaps tenderness on pressing and increasing redness. It can almost be ignored but the bacterial infection would developing in the lever layers of skin and muscle tissue below that. The trigger that puts me in hospital is the subsequent pyrexia or fever. What’s most distressing for those of us with MS is that we are already hypersensitive to temperature variations, particularly heat. It’s very unpleasant and very unsafe for our depleted bodies.
Get yourself to your GP URGENTLY and get it checked out. Hopefully they will eliminated cellulitis but they should take blood for testing to determine whether you have infection present.
Graeme