I'm just curious; my second major MS attack, I had paresthesia on the whole left side of my body. It lasted about 3 weeks and then cleared up (mostly, but my left side still goes numb easily, i.e. if I sleep on it, if I have pressure on my lap, etc.). It was bad enough that it affected my walking; like when you have a leg that "falls asleep' bad enough that it's hard to walk at first.
I mentioned this to my MS specialist (who I switched to about a year after that attack) and he thought it was unusual for paresthesia to be bad enough to affect walking and wondered if there had been something else going on as well that wasn't recognized at the time (since then I just saw a general neuro and didn't make it to an MS specialist till a few months later). I'm just curious if anyone else has had a similar experience, and if it's really that unusual for paresthesia to affect walking.
I mentioned this to my MS specialist (who I switched to about a year after that attack) and he thought it was unusual for paresthesia to be bad enough to affect walking and wondered if there had been something else going on as well that wasn't recognized at the time (since then I just saw a general neuro and didn't make it to an MS specialist till a few months later). I'm just curious if anyone else has had a similar experience, and if it's really that unusual for paresthesia to affect walking.
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