For those who are left with abnormal sensation problems, there are medications that can often help relieve the abnormal sensation. The less a patient focuses or thinks about the abnormal sensation, the less it will tend to be. I have been bothered with severe neck and back pain. I am getting different opinions as to whether MS is responsible. Physical therapy has been helping but the pain is returning.
Neurologists usually divide the pain syndromes into two groups.
First, those that are caused by the MS itself, and second, those which are caused by posture and musculoskeletal abnormalities. The primary MS pain is usually a very sharp stabbing instant type of pain, often around the face. Or a poorly localized burning aching pain in one or more extremities. The pain due to musculoskeletal abnormalities is most commonly in the lower back, sometimes with radiation of the pain into the legs. The primary MS pain is generally treated with one of the antiseizure medications such as Gabapentin.