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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?

Comments

WoW this is so helpful!

Submitted by LeanneBoone14 on Tue, 2020-02-11 - 11:21
WoW this is so helpful! literally 10 min ago i was walkin through the back warehouse at my work and stopped at a coworkers station and I turned really quick felt like a bolt of electricity shot through the left side of my head but close to the center of my forehead. It was so strong my vision blurred and an i had to grab hold of the nearest thing to keep from falling out . I heard the buzz of the electricity! It scared me so much I came straight to my desk and googled it and and ended up here. I've had seizure like episodes I don't know if the are seizures or not but if there is any chemical change in my body ( new meds or my dose changes on my meds ) or anything like that it's alot worse but if stand to fast my blood pressure bottoms out and sometime I lose my vision for a second and everything is tingly like I was just on the verge of passing out but doesnt. then sometime if I jump up quickly before I get more than a couple steps i'm on the floor Shaking severly i call it convulsions but I don't know if it is technically convulsions so I'll say Shaking Severly., i'm aware of what is going on I cant see but I can hear everything. the last bad one like that was the first time my mother had seen me do it and it scared the heck out of her. I remember going down and shaking severly and she grabbed me to try and stop it and i was saying to her I'm ok It's ok It will stop in a second but she said that what was coming out was very deep and drawn out to the point she could hardly understand me. I always thought I was just passing out but my mom thinks they are seizures I guess it's time to go to the doctor and see what they say. Thank you all for sharing you just kept me from going crazy.

My husband is experiencing

Submitted by pugasaiz1 on Mon, 2020-03-09 - 02:43
My husband is experiencing this right now and after the shock he gets upset then falls asleep like "Narcolepsy" He has been diagnosed with epilepsy, he's currently medicated but has constant break through partial seizures. I feel bad and helpless. Now I can explain he's not alone and it happens

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