MS can damage the nerves that affect your muscles. This can cause acute or paroxysmal pain in the form of spasms. Your arms and legs might shoot out uncontrollably and might have pain like cramping or pulling. Nerve pain can also be chronic in the form of painful or unusual sensations on your skin.

Is MS pain constant or intermittent?

In MS these pains can be experienced on a daily or nearly daily basis and often it is unpredictable when they will occur. If you have experienced an acute neuropathic pain before it's possible for it to become a chronic neuropathic pain.

Does pain come and go with MS?

MS symptoms can come and go and change over time. They can be mild, or more severe. The symptoms of MS are caused by your immune system attacking the nerves in your brain or spinal cord by mistake. These nerves control lots of different parts of your body.