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Q: Muscle Spasm Twitches and Pinpricks
asked by: jwiesberg on September 26th, 2008
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I am writing to see if anyone has had the following ...

muscle spasms / twitches all over body, pinpricks, crawling bugs feeling, itchiness.

I have been to several doctors. At first it started as a rash / spots and I was diagnosed with scabies. Did the whole scabies cream things twice and took steroids. The rash / spots went away but the itching, pin prick and crawling feeling remains. I also get muscle spasms now.

I have had a MRI that was normal and a full blood work up. Was worried it may be MS, Thyroid (which runs in my family), or Lyme Disease...but seems all have been ruled out. I did have the feeling that food was getting caught in my throat for a while too, and I had a barium swallow, but that went away and the test came back normal anyway.

My next step is a neurologist. I have been under an amazing amount of stress lately, so my thought is this is all stress related. I've had some major emotional traumas in the last few months and I feel like this is the culmination of it -- but kind of worried even stress couldn't cause ALL of these things to be happening???

Please let me know if anyone has had these symptoms, especially all of them together like me!
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Harleycap
replied on November 14th, 2008
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I am having pinprick itching feeling too
Hi, I have been having for about the past 2 weeks an itching or as you described pin prick feelings under my skin. I do not have any redness or rash on the skin at all like you had at first. Mine is not visible and scratching does not help at all. It is intense at times and drives me nuts.

Only thing I have found so far is Benedryl to calm the itching feeling and sometimes that does not work too well.

I also have had over the past 2 or 3 months at times the feeling like something was caught in my throat. I have wondered if the Thyroid is involved but did not see any symptoms under Thyroid conditions that match mine.

I just posted a question for help on this site for it. Watch for an answer as I hope someone has one. I hope your symptoms improve for you.

I was told by a family member that it could be stress induced...Not sure and if so, what do I do then??
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zigemyster
replied on November 15th, 2008
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MS has been ruled out however you haven't seen a neurologist yet?

Stress can cause all kinds of issues and that may be what is happening to you or may just be a part of it.

Please make an appt with a good neurologist so that he / she can help you in managing these things and hopefully it is nothing too serious.

~Zig
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