<p>It sounds like a compressed nerve, one that passes through a narrow junction and is compressed through time and use. Is there any numbness or loss of sensation? I’ve had minor episodes of this. I remember thinking, “Weird, because there’s no way I have MS.” It comes and goes like most minor nerve things. The MS reference comes, as you’ve likely googled, from the way sensations are spread through the system. I remember being with my dad when I was very young and he noticed a foot drop in someone he knew. </p>
<p>We see things through our own lens of experience. Mine is a history of cubital tunnel, which is the outer fingers of the hand numbed or tingling or both because the nerve is compressed in the elbow, plus a weird virus that my hand doctor* diagnosed only because he had the same thing. It caused strange pain that radiated from my back down my arm. I also have had vertigo and the current theory about that is much of it is caused by an immune response to chicken pox because the immune response targets those pathways as well. So my experience tells me to relate this to the occasional buzzing in my feet and that makes me think “nerve compression and/or maybe a flare-up of some viral infection that will likely never be understood or even isolated.” </p>
<p>*surgery on the hand and arms is a specialty and so my hand surgeon happened to have the right experience to diagnose me.</p>