MS hug symptoms include feeling like tightness or pressure around your torso.
MS hug is also known as dysesthesia and is a symptom of multiple sclerosis.
When you have MS hug it can cause chest pain, rib pain or even a tight uncomfortable band around your chest.
MS hug can be felt anywhere between your neck and your waist and may even feel so tight around your chest that it's painful to breathe.
The symptoms of MS hug can be short or long lasting.
It can also be sharp or dull pain.
It can feel like pressure, pain, an ache or a tickle.
It can feel like an electric shock.
It can feel like a burning, tingling or stabbing pain.
It can become so intense that it makes it difficult or hard to breathe.
And it can also feel like a clenched blood pressure cuff.
MS hug is caused by muscle spasms in your small muscle between your ribs called the intercostal muscles as well as changes in sensation and damage to the messages that carry information from your brain through your spinal cord to your muscles.