I often have numbness and burning sensation with pain in my arms and feet. Please advice.

Hi doctor,

For the past three weeks, I have been having all kinds of symptoms. For the last six months, I would get a burning sensation and numbness in my legs when I stand or sit for too long. I worked through it for a while, and then I noticed that I would get a burning sensation all over. The burning sensation tends to come and go on its own.

Three weeks ago, I woke up, and it felt that I had just done an intense workout. Both arms and legs were hurting, and that night I had terrible pain in my left pinky and ring finger as well as pins and needles. The day after that, I noticed my muscles are twitching. I first saw them in my leg, but now I feel them everywhere from time to time. I still have an itch in my foot, along with twitching. Last week I had constant arm pain; it almost feels like a cramping, but the muscle is not contracting, and they are sore when I try to hold them above my hear. I also get what is described as an achy pain in my fingers and toes. I did notice last week while lying in bed that my leg jumped. Today, pins and needles have gotten a little worse as I felt them all around my body.

I just had an x-ray of my back, and my GP said I had some minimal degenerative disk disease in my thoracic spine. I do not know if that has anything to do with these symptoms. A routine blood test reveals an elevated ESR level (41 up from 36) and a high CRP level 9.9. I currently have Meloxicam and Pantoprazole.

My father has MS, and I do not know if this could be it. Any advice would be great.

Thank you.