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Prickly feeling throughout body

SmokinJoeFraz93

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For the last couple of months I have noticed that when I am in a warm room or somehow my body is warm, I have these violent prickles throughout my body, and they’re the most annoying sensations ever.

Has anyone had this? And can you explain what it is please?
 

aaron_c

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Does it feel like pins and needles? Perhaps it has to do with blood flow?

I know Shoemaker in particular talks a lot about blood flow abnormalities in CIRS (I think CIRS might be a subtype of ME). And then there's Dr Pall's (now old) theory about nitric oxide issues. NO is a vasodilator so possibly NO pathologies could play into it.

Sorry, I know this lacks in detail and is pretty speculative. But it's where I might start looking.
 
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For the last couple of months I have noticed that when I am in a warm room or somehow my body is warm, I have these violent prickles throughout my body, and they’re the most annoying sensations ever.

Has anyone had this? And can you explain what it is please?
I had feeling earlier this year that my body was hot and ‘peppery’ as in black pepper: spicy, prickly. Hard to explain and was diffuse throughout my body. After a while I remembered I had felt like that some years ago (before recent re-triggering of MECFS) when I had low iron levels that only an infusion resolved. I got my iron checked, was low but not anemic and am on iron tablets and no longer feeling hot and peppery.
 
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I suffer these symptoms too, my doctor said it has something to do with the nerves being affected? I sorry I can't tell you much more, I don't fully understand it myself.