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Buzzing in leg???

I was wondering if anyone has managed to discover what causes this buzzing feeling in legs.

It feels like I have a mobile phone on vibrate somewhere in my right leg. I particularly notice it when I am sitting down. It buzzes for a couple of seconds, then stops for a couple of seconds before going again. It will continue for hours.

I have found other threads on this topic, but haven't been able to find out what causes it. I suspect it is a nerve thing, but what does it mean?

At least it isn't painful, but I wonder if it means that the nerve compression has got worse.

I also get a feeling of wetness, almost as if I have been splashed with cold water.

I hope someone else out there shares this, and perhaps you have been told what it is.

Thinking

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Grade 2 spondylolisthesis causing severe stenosis + DDD
L4/L5 decompression (laminectomy) and PLIF 19th March 2010
Herniations at T12/L1, T9/T10 and T8/T9 (mildly indenting cord)
Significant cervical spondylosis from C3-C7
C3/C4 and C4/C5 are compressing the cord (mild to moderate)
Been referred to a neurologist to rule out MS

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Pager

I get this too. For the longest time I thought it was my work pager going off. I also have bugs crawling across my foot and cold water dripping on my foot and leg. All of these symptoms were before my spinal cord stimulator so it is not related to that. The dr. just said, "It's probably related to your arachnoiditis."

The buzzing is weird but doesn't hurt me either.

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"If you ever need holding, call my name, I'll be there. If you ever need holding, no holding back, I'll see you through..." Jackson Browne, whose poetry in lyrics and music have seen me through so many years.

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me too

I get this too sometimes, the first time it happened I was standing on the pavement over a basement I asked my husband what the buzzing was under our feet, he looked at me blankly, I moved him where I was standing and expected him to know what I meant, he said there is nothing there, then I realised it was still happening and it was me, as you say no pain just something I have to put up with.

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Born with Familial epiphyseal dysplasia
Polio at 4yrs. Osteoarthritis from age 30
Lumber and cervical stenosis from 1995, surgery of decompression lumber L3/L4/5 S1 1996
chronic pain since 6 years of age

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I get the bugs too!

I know just what you mean about the bugs crawling on me. I don't get that nearly so often since my lumbar fusion.
I used to get it particularly up my left leg on the outer calf. One day I was in a friend's garden having coffee and she told me I had a spider crawling on my right leg. I laughed! I could feel it, but just thought it was a nerve symptom!

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Grade 2 spondylolisthesis causing severe stenosis + DDD
L4/L5 decompression (laminectomy) and PLIF 19th March 2010
Herniations at T12/L1, T9/T10 and T8/T9 (mildly indenting cord)
Significant cervical spondylosis from C3-C7
C3/C4 and C4/C5 are compressing the cord (mild to moderate)
Been referred to a neurologist to rule out MS

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