What Nerve Pain Feels Like

Stuart SchlossmanMultiple Sclerosis (MS) Symptoms

Damaged nerves may send false signals — and you feel real pain, often without a cause. Here’s what you need to know.


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People with nerve pain feel it in different ways. For some, it’s a stabbing pain in the middle of the night. For others, symptoms can include a chronic prickling, tingling, or burning they feel all day.

Uncontrolled nerve pain can be hard to bear. But with treatment, it can often be adequately controlled.

Understanding Nerve Pain

Pain is supposed to be a warning. When your hand gets too close to a stove, the nerves send a pain signal to the brain — and you pull back before you burn yourself. But if you have nerve damage, that system isn’t working. Damaged nerves may send false signals — and you feel real pain, often without a cause. Damaged nerves may also result in you not feeling pain when you have an injury.

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