Burning sensations

[MrsMais]

Hello everyone,

I would like to know if anyone has experienced burning sensations.  I have been waking up the past couple of nights with my right hand burning and stiff.  Its not hot to the touch or red. It's just a burning pain.   I have had the burning sensations in feet and thighs also. This morning I feel so disoriented sort of confused at times.  I don't know much about Fibromyalgia except that I have it and it's painful and tiring.  I have no one to talk to about this so please anyone help.

[patsy10]

The neuropathy from diabetes takes years to develop as well.  It doesn't happen over night.  I have all those paresthias too from burning to cold, to feelings of water dripping etc...Mine is probably related to lyme disease.

[FurballsMom]

Now I know I'm on the right track for sure.  I get these strange burning sensations all over, too.  Sometimes they're really deep and painful, too.  Other times that sensation feels like it's my skin that is burning.  Still other times it's an itchy crawly feeling.  I got to where I had stopped trying to say anything about these strange feelings to any of the doctors I had before, because I was already dealing with not being taken seriously and being told that I'm just nuts.  Since I had been dealing with depression, I was seeing a shrink.  I mentioned this to him, because at the time it was happening faster and more painful than I had ever had before.  I was dealing with a worse weight issue than now.  He really scared me when he tried to tell me that it was a sign of diabetes.  Except what I was reading about this parasthesis and neuropathy and diabetes definitely didn't fit the bill.  With diabetes it tends to just be in the extremities.  This doesn't just happen in the extremities with me either.  I have had this kind of pain cause me to double over with it being so bad.  I have had this kind of pain hit me right in the breast, too.  The last time my fasting blood sugar was tested, it was right within range, and I had lost a significant amount of weight.  So, I knew this parasthesis and neuropathy couldn't be from diabetes, like the shrink thought.  Still, he was the only one who knew what this pain was called, so that I could do some research on it.

[Lori707]

My symtoms have gotten worse since I last posted and so has the intensity. Past 3 days & nights I feel the HEAT, muscle twitiching throughout entire body and now palpitations. The vibrations also. I tried to walk and my legs would shake. My face had intense stinging and heat. I took 2mg.xanax and finally fell asleep but got up every 5-15 min. I usually always feel very warm when it's cold(I purposely keep the house at 67 degrees) but for the past few days I feel so cold! Also.,..I've been getting spasms and pins & needles in my organs. Weird..but it certainly feels that way. I feel I can light up a Christmas tree. Also, I started to get buzzing in my head. No pain or sound..just buzzing feeling. ???? What's up with that? And..I've been woken from a good sleep several times by instant painful stinging and heat but my muscles are all in a spasm. Can't move or talk and can hardly breath. So hard to take a deep breath. I moan when I can to wake my husband and he moves me. Once he starts moving me and gets me to sit up, I feel a little better and my muscles start to unlock. I went to my allergest yesterday and he told me that my bronchile tube constricts and it's dangerous. Now I'm scared to go to sleep.

I'm wondering if this could be a seizure. Anyone with ideas on a possible seizure and buzzing in the head?
Lori

[Phtartist]

Lori, that vibrating feeling is something I talk about all the time but you are the first person who has said it too!!!

I get all the neurological symptoms you get on your skin also. Cymbalta has helped but I have to get off it because of side effects, OH JOY!  back to the stinging and sharp pains. The burning from my forehead to my shoulders and on a real neuro day burning on my whole body. The only thing that calms that down for me (burning skin) is pure aloe. I buy mine from www.desertharvest.com  
Once I've had that sort of attack, the body stuff goes away but the frontal area of the scalp to the eyebrows continues to burn for at least a week. I feel like a vampire who when I walk into the sun, I cringe and cower back into the dark corners of safety. True story, happened this past summer.

[VaBreeze]

Yes, a flare-up means you are having a bad time with the symptoms.  Fibro tends to wax and wane.  One flare-up and cause this to hurt; another can cause something else.  I know that when I have one, I am typically in bed for about two days.  This is when it gets really bad or when I have overexerted myself (I hate to pace because my mind says I can do it).  

Since you lived in NY, it would be a good idea to have the Lymes test.

I have also had most of the other symptoms that you all describe, at one time or another.  Mine usually feels as if a cobweb has landed on my skin or something crawling.  I look and nothing is there.

[Lori707]

I'm going nuts with 24/7 heat sensations. I used to have severe muscle spasms but don't anymore. Maybe a slight one here and there but I always feel my muscles are sore all over. I get pins and needles and stinging throughout my body. I have two types of heat sensations. One when my pins and needles become awful stinging that feels like burning. Also, my skin in many parts of my body feel very warm or hot while other areas feel extremely cold. I feel like I'm sweating and clammy, but I'm not. I also feel trembling inside and get a lot of muscle twitches. The doctors have no idea why I feel skin heat....and I've been to a lot of docs.

I'm going for an emg and ssep testing next month.