electrical shock in head?

Re: electrical shock in head?

Submitted by prettyperky on Tue, 2009-02-03 - 00:04

I am soooo happy to see this sight!  I thought I was going crazy!  I've been having electric shock sensation nearly everynight for the past 4 or 5 months. It would precede with a sensation as if someone touch my skin or tug at a single strand of hair on my leg or arm then I hear, an electric current w/in milliseconds...sometime in the back at the base of skull other time all all over. I would hear mild shock and other electric sounds as though someone termed on a generator of a space ship...the types of sound you'd hear on Star Wars.  It always happen before I go to sleep a few electrical sounds hear and there. I asked one of my neuroscience instructors about shock sounds in the head...and he said he'd never heard of such a thing. It has only been within the last month that I confided in my aunt, my brother and my GP & OB doc.  I prefaced it to ask them to not judge me crazy but this is what I hear at night. I told my GP that when I was a child, I played with mercury in the thermometer.  I thought since mercury is toxic and absorbed through the skin, maybe it collected in my brain.  So she had me do a mercury blood test after being restricted from certain kinds of fish like salmon and tuna.  I don't know the results.  I was to have a follow-up appointment in March. PS I'm a 49 female.

 Last night, while I was preparing to sleep, and I was charging my cell phone near the outlet withing one foot from me.  I sleep on a mattress on a carpeted floor, (I'm a graduated student trying to live on loans).  I always charge my cell phone by the same outlet near my head, but not EVERY night.  But last night I got strong electric jolt to the brain, very loud!  At the same time I saw a white lightning streak with my eyes closed and pointing perpendicular to my head toward the electric outlet but parallel with my phone on the floor at the same angle.  I thought I heard a sound coming from the phone at the same time of the jolt!  I immediately unplugged the phone and charged it in the spare room away from me.  I had no further electric sensations that night.  I felt that my brain was eletrocuted and the cell phone charging had something to do with it because the lightning bolt was in the same direction coming across my closed eyes, going from the cell phone with a head or point to the electric outlet!  It scarred the mess out of me!

Last semester, we studied the causes of Alzheimer's Disease.  Although it can be hereditary, the take research doctor says, it all depend on whether or not there is a leak in the blood/brain barrier to cause Alheimers or some cancers in the brain.  Well, I think or hypothesize that such electrocution jolt in the brain can possible destroy the blood brain barrier making you succeptible to Alheimer's Disease or various cancers.  The cell phone has electromagnetic radiation that may have play a part in my since of electrocution last night. This was the first time I saw lightning with my eyes closed and got strong powerful jolts to my whole head.  Another researcher who studies vision, says that it seems that I'm describing a seizure with the lightnening bolts and everything. He suggest that I see a neurologist right away. They'll probably need to do a sleep study and EEG.

He says it can be treated since this is rather new to me; but he says if left untreated, the blood brain might be damaged leading to other problems.  He told me to get a diagnosis first and afterwards, they can do a blood test on me to see if the blood brain barrier has been damaged.  He told me not to be alarmed and that I'm not going crazy.  He also advised that I minimize use of my cell phone. At least do not charge it up while I'm in the same room.  He said I might be sensitive to electricity or electromagnetic radiation.

Ten years ago, I was on Paxil and Trazadone for a few months because I was failing out of medical school at the time.  Anyways, I night I took both drugs, one ease the anxiety, the other to make me sleep.  As I was sleeping I got a HUGE ELECTRIC JOLT TO THE HEAD in the back of my brain, I jumped out of back headed to the bathroom and I had diplopia also.... I saw two toilets.  It scarred the crap out of me. I kept blinking and finally I saw the one and only toilet in the bathroom.  I have never used drugs or anything other than these meds.  I did not take any more after that. I was fine.  It scared me soooo bad.  I had no anxiety problems since I left med school and never had anxiety problem until I was in. But anyways, the streak of lightning is totally new. Med school was 10 years ago.  So these other electric symptoms are very recent.  No stress in my life that account for this.

 I am sooo happy to learn that I am not alone.  I will pray that Jesus will give me peace about this problem if not heal me of it.

prettyperky

Re: electrical shock in head?

Submitted by teachergreen on Tue, 2009-02-03 - 10:29

Dear kathyl,

i have had epilepsy for 15 years. When i was first diagnosed they told me it was only anxiety and gave my valium. A couple of of years later the neurologist told me it was seizures. Up until sept. i have tried almost every med. out there. i  now have a vns implanted and use a magnet to activate.  This has helped.  I usually only have a seizure when i am asleep and their are insinc pretty much with hormonal changes.

 A cassette called CONDITIONED RELAXATION has also been comforting. I have the words memorized, having used it for a while, and im able to go to sleep easily. The tape teaches you how to breathe slowly and think about the air going to the rest of your body. I don't even get past breathing through my fingers some nights and i fall asleep.

I hope this is helpful.

Lynda