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Weird MS Symptoms

This past fall I past my 30th anniversary of my MS diagnosis so I can tell you I have experienced and continue to experience many strange MS symptoms. As I’ve been reading others stories, I’ve been sitting here bobbing my head up & down in camaraderie! But, one of my weirdest or for me, my most bothersome, is my itchy scalp! I get itchy skin which I think goes along with that feeling that something ran across it and I will then scratch like crazy. But the scalp is horrible. My neurologist said is has to do with the nerve endings in my brain and I do have a medication I can take, Hydroxyzine. But sometimes I just scratch and scratch right down until there is bleeding….i should take the medicine sooner and more often! Ugh! I hope a lot of others don’t have this symptom.

  1. Hi I can hear how uncomfortable you are, this must be so frustrating for you. I am sending over an article that I hope can help you: https://multiplesclerosis.net/living-with-ms/crazy-itch-just-cant-satisfy. Please keep us posted with how you are doing. Jill (Team Member)

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