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May 25, 2024
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Yes, many people with multiple sclerosis (MS) have lesions on their spine. These spinal lesions can cause various symptoms due to nerve damage, including:

- Muscle weakness
- Numbness and tingling
- Pain
- Altered sensations such as tingling, burning, itching, crawling, numbness, electric shocks, and pins and needles

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Yes, many people with multiple sclerosis (MS) have lesions on their spine. These spinal lesions can cause various symptoms due to nerve damage, including:

- Muscle weakness
- Numbness and tingling
- Pain
- Altered sensations such as tingling, burning, itching, crawling, numbness, electric shocks, and pins and needles

Some individuals also report a pulsating or vibrating sensation in the cervical spine, which may be related to these lesions.

May 25, 2024
A MyMSTeam Member

My spine is Swiss cheese in both the cervical and thoracic areas. Worse than my brain actually. Yes, they’ve caused numerous symptoms over the years when active, mostly sensory in nature which I know makes me very, very lucky. They actually worked me up for devic’s disease because I had such a concentration of lesions in my spinal cord as opposed to my brain. Numbness, tingling, right leg weakness at times, electric shock sensations, “buzzing” sensations etc have all been symptoms I’ve experienced. Hope that helps!

May 26, 2024
A MyMSTeam Member

I do, I have issues when I stand a while even when I sit. But I also have arthritis in my left hip dont know if it's the lesions or other things. @A MyMSTeam Member

May 25, 2024 (edited)
A MyMSTeam Member

yes-constant tingling, needing to either stand up or sit down frequently.

April 21, 2025
A MyMSTeam Member

Yes to both as they have resulted in SPMS which has left side weakness and left foot drop.

April 21, 2025

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