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05/08/2008 07:52
SDKatt
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ok, my latest development is this burning sensation that shows up in various places. Sometimes its in one leg, sometimes both, sometimes the back of my neck. Its about driving me crazy. I try rubbing the spot and that helps for about 10 minutes and then its back again.

Is this a FM symptom or something else, like hot flashes? Anybody else have this happening and what do you do for it? Thanks.

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05/08/2008 08:02
coffeebean
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Yes I believe a lot of us experience this. It can almost feel like a sunburn. It has happened to me on alot of body parts. It hurts to touch it too.
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05/08/2008 08:19
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I've had the burning sensations and hot flashes. To me they don't feel anything alike and I don't know which one is worse. I them them both. But in my opinion I would say the burning sensations are fibro related.
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05/08/2008 09:07
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I mostly get them in my neck & shoulder area. On both sides & in the middle of my shoulders...where the golf balls live on a daily basis...and it just bbbuuurrnnss! I usually put my heating pad on low to medium, place it on the top of my back and just lean into that thing hard. It does help 'calm' it down, but I also found that when I take one of my muscle relaxers, they eventually, 'release' and it doesn't hurt anymore! I take Tizinadine as my relaxant. So to me, I feel mine are from tension and sitting forward a bit, typing on this PC for too long.
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05/08/2008 10:06
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My doctor told me how to distinguish my hot flashes from regular sweating episodes. Hot flashes always start on top of the head. Sometimes they spread outwards sometimes they don't. I was lucky, ha ha, to get the ones on the head with an occasional all over hot flash. By the time I get done with a hotflash, my hair is soaked and the sweat is actually dripping off of it. Didn't matter what time of year it was, I was sweating and always had wet hair. It's truly embarassing. The hot feelings in the muscles I get sometimes around my neck and shoulders. The ortho Dr told me that mine are from my buldging and protruding discs in my neck, I have three of them, that they are pushing against a nerve. Sometimes just moving my neck around til it cracks will make it feel better. Does anyone get the stabbing pain where your muscle feels like it's jerking inside? I got one the other day when I was driving and it felt like someone was sitting on my lap sticking me with a knife. Horrible pain.

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05/08/2008 10:33
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I get that all the time in my left chest but I don't know if it's the fibro or the mastectomy. I've always had left chest pain but now I have the stabbing that makes me jerk. I also now have jerking muscles in my right leg which sometimes makes me push on the car accelerator too hard but it isn't painful. I also have muscle jerks (tics?) in the right knee and the right groin, right shoulder, right arm. It's very mysterious.
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05/08/2008 12:00
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I'm glad someone else has them stabbing pains. I thought of getting a past life regression to see who I was and how I died in a past life. Maybe I was still getting the sympathy pains LOL>

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05/09/2008 09:16
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I do get those stabbing pains in my legs and lower back too. usually the stabbing pain is like a jolt and then I get the burning afterwards. I can relate to the "golf balls" under my sholder blades. I used to get massages, but can't handle the pressure anymore--which is a bummer, cuz we all should be pampered!
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05/09/2008 11:05
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I get the hot flashes and the burning sensations between my shoulder blades and in my hips. I also have the leg jerks quite a bit actually.

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