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electrical shock in head?

Mon, 07/18/2005 - 00:37
Last night I was laying in bed with my eyes closed and all of a sudden on the left side of my brain it felt just like an electrical shock.I jumped and there was a tingling sensation down my right arm.Didn't last very long.A few seconds later same thing but not quite as intense.Has anyone ever had this happen to them?Or am I just going crazy?

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Re: Re: electrical shock in head?

Submitted by greta on Fri, 2005-11-11 - 19:20
I have heard that people after taking Paxil and stopping that drug experiennce what you are discribing.

Re: Re: Re: electrical shock in head?

Submitted by maggie on Fri, 2005-11-11 - 19:50
Greta,thank you for your reply.I have never taken Paxil and this only started since I have had the seizures.When my eyes were closed it looked like a lightening bolt.It happened twice.

Re: Re: Re: Re: electrical shock in head?

Submitted by gretchen1 on Fri, 2005-11-11 - 23:35
Hmmm. How interesting because I get these too but never associated them with a simple partial. I really don't think in me they are. They're too quick. I tend to think of them as (self diagnosed) my neurons going a little haywire without actually sz'ing. I really see lightning if I sneeze. But then I have such an interesting array of simple partials? Some are so brief. I'm at a point I'm never sure if it's just "life" or a simple partial. But? I get these too. Not all the time but frequently when I'm going to sleep, also this is a time when I tend to jerk for about 30 minutes incidentally and then I also see lightning constantly in the lower left corner of my vision. Two yellow jagged bolts. I had thought maybe it was connected to ocular migrains as it's those jagged lines, but not the pastel colors I get with an ocular migraine. Also they don't progress like an ocular migraine's pastel lightening type vision until I loose all vision. I also have never experienced head pain with either of those. I don't know if I associate these with those sudden electrical zips or not. I'm wondering if when I get these sudden and short electrical shocks that race down my side, starting at different points, usually upper ribs to hip but sometimes butt to foot (which I think is my bad back) and sometimes racing down my arm into my fingers - if I closed my eyes I'd see that lightning too because I only see the lightning if my eyes are closed or I'm if in a darkened room. Those electrical shocks are so sharp and startling they make me jump. I'm SO buzzy, electrified especially in my lower extremities and upper arms that I can literally have a sz provoked sometimes if some one - EEEKKKSSS - rubs my thighs or upper arms. In fact after a sz has ended it's normal for someone to calm me down (as if I'm not comatose enough) by rubbing my upper arm and at times? Have provoked a second sz. I had surgery a few months ago to stop a condition causing cerebral spinal fluid pressure on my brain which reduced my extreme hyper reflexiveness, which was a relief, and I think it's reduced my daily sz's too. The surgeon still won't call it yet as a sz reduction but my reflexes went from 3+ to 1but I still have the blasted buzzies. I swear at times I feel I could power up the whole town I live in of 50,000 and when I feel that way? I see lightning and get the electrical zaps and zips. When the buzzies set in I get the twitchies in assorted muscles too. DRIVES ME NUTS. I did take a gob of Excedrin though and each one is worth a cup of coffee - 40 mg of caffeine. I hated giving that up as it does help migraines but once I did? My buzzies and lightning doesn't seem as bad. Huh. I'm chronically finding - I'm never alone. Unfortunately for all of us. Gretchen

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