New weird symptom

I have not felt this before.  The trunk of my body feels like it is sitting on someone else's  bum and legs.  However, I do have sensation in my legs when my feet hit the ground walking.  But I still feel like half of a person walking around. Is this a normal MS related experience?

[Lulu54]

Is it a firmer tighter bum and better looking legs?  I'ld take that feeling  LOL

Seriously I don't have that feeling but I bet someone here will have experience with something similar. I'm glad you don't have a complete loss of feeling in your legs

Be well,
Lulu

[saveone]

Actually they are a little firmer!

[msjinx]

my last relapse i felt like i had a big belt around my waist that kept getting tighter ,i also had loss of feeling from my waist down , i could still walk ,just very slowly ........ no winning races for ha ha ha .......

[saveone]

I can relate to the walk slow and no running races.  I went to Wal-Mart and I thought I wasn't going to make it back out.  I forgot and squatted down.  My legs didn't want to lift me and I thought "This is great I am going to have to ask someone get me out of the floor".  Now wouldn't that have been a sight...LOL.  I bet I don't do that again.

[novakf]

This might be a totally different thing, but it reminded me, I have the experience occasionally that the two halves of my body are splitting in half. Not literally tearing in half, but they feel disconnected from each other. I am not aware of having a full body, but of having two separate half-bodies that just happen to be stuck together. It is a very bizarre feeling. Thankfully it usually only lasts a few minutes and I've had this for several years, so might be a migraine symptom / random thing rather than anything too nasty.

Anyone else experienced this?

[novakf]

I mean the left and right sides (split down the middle) rather than the splitting of the torso and legs.

[Deb61]

This is a common MS symptom.  I have experienced this in a relapse.  I called my left leg my "peg leg" for a while--disconnected from the other parts of my body.  It made me have a limp on that leg, because I felt like I was stepping into a black hole with that leg.  I've also experienced this feeling for only a few seconds--causing me to fall.  Is that what you're experiencing?

Deb

[novakf]

Not sure if you're talking to me or the original poster (saveone), but it doesn't really sound the same as what I experience. It is more of a sensation of disembodiment, which I notice first in my chest and arms, I might be using the right and left arm on the same task (like typing) but it feels like they are independent of one another. I don't actually lose any control over them or anything.

[saveone]

You describe what I was feeling.  The only difference was my body was spit vertically, at my waist.  I didn't have a lot of sensation in the movement of my legs but I could tell when my foot came down.  The sensation however was muted.  Disconnected is a very good way to describe it

[Quixotic1]

Hmmmm....this is all very interesting.  I often find that I am using someone else's right hand to do things and she must be a very uncoordinated person.  So, perhaps, when one of you finds they are being inhabited by the parts of another I can send over this awkward right hand.  We should really try to economize.  You know, like practicing Green MS.  Why should all of us suffer, if we could put all of the c rap into one person for a short time.

I may be onto something.  Well, anyway, I would like to get rid of this defective hand.

Quizzle Sticks

[saveone]

We would have to take turns.  If we draw straws I am sure I would the short one every time...LOL,  But he does sound like a good plan.  If enough of us joined in we would not have to take a turn but every couple years.  yes that is a very good plan. Maybe we could divvy up the relapses too or trade our brain fog days. Now I am really excited!

[jensequitur]

Word of the day... Proprioperception!  

Whether it's your torso disconnected from your legs, or your right leg feeling like it's somebody else's, or your arm floating off into space, it's all called proprioperception.  

A fancy word for "Where the heck did my arm go?  Oh, it's right here."

I lost my right arm for a while, then it came back.  Now my left leg wanders off, and sometimes my right leg too.