4. Electric shock sensations
Imagine getting into a bath with a toaster and you’re almost there. The pain that comes in conjunction with this awful condition has been described by plenty of people to be similar to that of an electric shock.
The type of electric shock pain that the patients with this condition are likely to experience can be unforgiving. One patient with the condition described the pain as feeling as though their foot had been struck by lightning.
They talked about how in this case, lightning really did seem to strike twice, and three times and four times in fact, as the pain didn’t seem to travel anywhere else but in and around the back of the leg, like it was searching for an exit point.
We’re not sure whether an electric type of pain or burning pain is worse, and unfortunately for people with this condition, they tend to be afflicted by the worst of both worlds.