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@Falks01 Hi numbness can happen anywhere. Both my hands and legs are numb. It could be a flair if it lasts more than a couple of days call your ms nurse and ask them for advice. Hope it clears soon.

Hi, I can't comment specifically about your sensitivity problems, all my fingers lack sensitivity now and I can't remember how it started and got worse!! What I do know (I hope I get this right) is that MS is essentially a condition where signals in the brain either stop altogether, stop and start, or partly stop... I liken MS to the electrical wiring in the house... except in an MS house, the insulation around the wiring erodes, and it can erode in any part of the wiring system to a greater or lesser extent, and, typically at the start of MS, the wiring can repair itself. But when the wiring does erode basically a fuse blows and stops electrical signals travelling in that part of the wiring. So, with my analogy, the wiring could affect the lighting (e.g your sight, 'optic neuritis'), or the heating (so you get more affected in hot and cold weather) or any bodily function (e.g bowel, bladder etc)... so I would say that if a network of your brain controls sensation in your 4th and 5th fingers of both of your hands, then, yes, MS will affect it. Not sure that's a great help, especially as the human brain is so complex (and by no means 100% understood even nowadays)... but if there's a signalling system used by the brain, then MS can wreck it, affect it now and then, affect it badly one day and not much the next day, in fact the signalling can be interrupted or slowed or interfered with in so many ways! BUT, there is treatment for a lot of symptoms... but I don't know of any for numbness/insensitivity, so if anyone does please let me and @Falks01 know : )