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So I've been diagnosed with MS for like 7 months or so now, maybe longer I forget. Another important note is that I hate bugs with a passion. Multiple times a day I'll be sitting doing nothing when I get the feeling that a bug is crawling on me, like a tickling hair, and I'll swat at the area because obviously I want to kill the bug. However, there's typically never a bug there. The tickling lasts maybe a second or two and then dissipates. I really don't understand the whole active lesions vs… read more
Yes! It's called formication and I get it even when I have no active lesions. For me it feels like an ant or gnat crawling on my arm. I go to wipe it off me but there's nothing there. It happens so much that once we were out at a pizza place and my teenage son said, "Mom don't do that meth addict thing where you pick at your imaginary bugs!" ...Pretty embarrassing to say the least. So I have learned to just "behave myself" and let the bugs crawl on me. Sometimes I look down and see an actual gnat walking on me! I almost want to kiss that gnat! At least he is REAL!
I do that all the time too.
I get the same feeling!
Oh yes...I've actually sat and watched my arm feel like there was something crawling on it and there was nothing there....😞
Same. On my face. @A MyMSTeam Member
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