Damage to the brain and spinal cord can cause a variety of abnormal sensations in the skin. However, the sensations actually have nothing to do with the skin.
By Cathy Cassata – Medically Reviewed by Jason Paul Chua, MD, PhD
Reviewed: June 7, 2023
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Virtually all symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS) are a result of the damage MS does to the brain and spinal cord. Damage to sensory pathways in the central nervous system can produce abnormal sensations elsewhere in the body, including the skin, says Barbara Giesser, MD, a multiple sclerosis specialist with Pacific Neuroscience Institute in Santa Monica, California, and professor emeritus of clinical neurology at the David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine in Los Angeles.
These abnormal sensations can include numbness, tingling, pain, and itching, as well as the feeling of insects crawling, water dripping, wetness, pressure, and vibration in particular areas of the body.
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