I've experienced this before, Mine is like a slight shock then a very sharp pain followed by a very hot burning sensation that normally runs down a nerve in my neck.  Its only happened a couple of times but didn't really relate it to Epilepsy, but im glad to know now. 

I have almost constant electrical shock feeling sin my head.  I have multiple Gran Mauls just diagnosed.  I wanted to try a really great Epitologist and Nuero maybe at Cedars since I go there for blood clot  disorder. Any Input,  how common is the contant shock feelings?

I had the same electric shocks in my head - until I went off the Epival medication my doctor was giving me. Medications can often cause symptoms and when I went to my doctor and told him about the electric shock sensations he 'poo pooed' me and said 'it was all in my head.' I went off the medication and have never had a shock since.

I had similar happenings.  It started about 4 yrs ago and only happened while trying to go to sleep or already asleep.  I would tell my husband I felt/heard a "bugzapper" in my head.  That's what it felt/sounded like (electrical zap).  I thought I was going crazy and he probably did too.  After a couple years of it happening on and off, I saw a neurologist.  He did an EEG and admitted later that he thought it would show nothing.  It did, however, show that I have partial seizures.  I've been on seizure medication since and the only time it's happened is if I miss taking my medication.  I just wonder if it will have a long term effect or get worse.  I'm hoping just taking this medication will keep it dormant.  Any input from anyone else with these symptoms? 

I use to think my shocks were because I stopped taking my celexa. that's when I would get them the most. But I have been off that medication for over a year, and the shocks just came back. It's not on any particular side of my head or body. It feels like my whole brain, my mouth kind of drawls a little, then the shock goes down into both of my hands, sometimes my whole body. It feels so awkward. But it only lasts for a few seconds. It hurts pretty bad, if it lasted any longer I don't thing I could stand it. I don't have insurance, so I can't seek medical attention. But it scares me. I am 23 years old. This sucks. Someone have any advice?

Thank God I am not going nuts! I have had these episodes over the last 20 years, some times in remission for several years and then "bang" this painful "electric shock" hits me in the left temple and simultaneously in the left shoulder & shoulder blade. It is only for a few seconds and subsides leaving my face sort of tingly-sore and my left hand a little numb! I could never explain it to a physician so they could even tell me what it might be. I don't know whether it is treatable or not. I have never been dizzy or blacked out but occasionally I will have several consecutively.

I was around 10 maybe 11 years old when I had a brick dropped on my head.
Went to the hospital, they glued my hair and said, he's ok, ready to go home.
A few days later we flew off to Spain for a week, Whilst on holiday I was walking past the pool, when I had my first attack/episode/seizure/fit/blackout.
Call them whatever you like, but the point is I was fully clothed when I hit the water, in the deep end, my electric shocks aren't confined to my brain, the whole body might as well be plugged into a socket, I had no control at all for what seemed like an eternity, no vision, sounds are drowned out by buzzing, When they happen all I have is my thoughts.
By Gods grace it can't have lasted long because I saw the light and swam for the surface, gagging for air and coughing up water, with all the people around the pool laughing at what must have looked like an accidental trip or something.
I wasn't laughing though, I was worried and thankful that I made it out, I will never forget the 1st time it happened.
Then it happened again, and again, and after awhile I was taken back to the hospital, I was only young, had no idea what was happening, had a brain scan and was then asked if I was on drugs, I'm a child and the guy is asking me if I take recreational drugs.
You should have seen the look on my grans face when he said the results suggest I've been on drugs but it's most likely I'm not, which I WASN'T, and that it's natural in some people for these parts to be active.
Anyway the scans didn't show anything else other than I'm an extremely happy child, so it must be emotion related.
That was the last I heard from the medical profession on this, until recently.
As a child I went lone wolf, because I didn't particularly like being in the hands of other kids or anyone whilst having an attack/episode/seizure/fit/blackout, people can be cruel at the best of times, don't need it at my worst of times.
I've landed myself in some embarrassing situations over the years, some years have been bad with having them frequently, I hate these years, it's like you spend most of it just waiting for it to happen again, and some years are good where I've only had the odd one or two.
I've landed myself in some dangerous situations, I'd not had one for almost a year so I went and bought a moped, not a wise idea and resulted in fractures.
I can be sitting, walking, running, swimming my attack/episode/seizure/fit/blackout can be ruthless in it's timing.
The older I got the more of a recluse I became.
For the last 6 years I've been hermitised to the point of agoraphobia setting hold.
People say, why don't you go out, well it's because I'm sick of finding myself falling towards concrete, sick of the cuts and bruises.
But now I'm sick of staying indoors, oh but it's too late, the legs don't like walking further than the 60ft it takes me to get from one end of the house to the other.
And that's without mentioning the attack/episode/seizure/fit/blackout waiting for me.

To describe my symptoms would be like this:-

Oh oh not again, by this point the eyesight is tunnel vision and I'm shutting down, I sometimes have enough hindsight to find a safe landing, sometimes I'm coming round to a bloody nose. As the tunnel vision sets in I hear a buzzing and it begins to feel like my brain is suffering an electric shock, which then spreads through the body.
People say I convulse, I have no idea how long they last, to me it feels like forever, it's just me and my thoughts whilst the body finishes it's jig.
Sometimes I come round to a drunk feeling, dazed, unable to speak for a few minutes, sometimes I can jump back up with a giant grin on my face (cos it don't always feel bad, sometimes it's enjoyable).
Sometimes I just have to lay there and wait for everybody to stop fussing over me, literally.
And I've always refused an ambulance, well because I'm emotional apparently.

I went to the doctors recently and spilled the beans, went for an ecg at the hospital, got to go for an eeg and then some other test, but the problem I have these days is actually getting out of the house.

I've loved my life, the attack/episode/seizure/fit/blackout are an annoyance, but life is life.

First of all let me introduce
myself, my name is lutfi hilmy, aged 25, from Indonesia. I stumble across this
page accidently by just typing ‘electrical shock in head’. However the topic I
searched about is not accidental. For about 3 years now I’ve developed
unexplainable things, my symptoms are considered unaccountable. When I aged 23
years old I used to suffocate when I tried to sleep, easily agitated and
oftenly wake up in the middle of the night frightened, then after few months
it’s just getting worst, I used to have electrical shocks inside my head when I
try to concentrate too hard, such as doing a multi task and having a ringing
sound from inside my ear. Last year my heart was broken from my love life and
it drives me nuts, I used to twitch when I was angry, screaming that just won’t
heal but I felt that I have to and everyone has no value in my eyes.  One day I read a book that was bought by my
brother from Saudi Arabia.

This book is about religious healing by saying
Islamic verses from Quran, by the way I am a Muslim, in some chapter I found
the healing of epilepsy, as I read on and on I found almost the same symptoms
as I experienced and I just realized that from a child I have this thing that I
used to do, have an empty stare in minutes and I can’t get out of that even if
I wanted to, that’s one of the symptoms that I’ve found out. Epileptic people
use to have a very large mood swings so badly, sometimes if we stress out to
much we could be like one of those people who got possessed, just like in that
movie Emily rose, if these people snapped who knows what will these people do.
So I said to myself, am I these people? So I went on deeper epilepsy on
alternative view. I seek on histories and found out that the prophet of Islam,
Muhammad is epileptic, it said then he would have light seizures when he
receives apocalypse from God, the first time that he ever experience it is when
he had a dream that felt so real, he was all shook up, uncontrollable trembling
lips and it is said his whole body was full of ants. So then this type of
similarities has driven me to a research about religious things in scientific
view in the aim of knowing better and to collect proof of similarities between
epileptic people and Muhammad. This research has led me to a neurologist named
Dr. Ramachandra from india, he has found a latest yet controversial discovery.
He have found God spot and it is said that when people are in the state of
trying to contact, understand or simply pray to god this spot will show some
electrical activity and only this spot. This spot is located in lobus temporal, the spot which control
our hearing, aha! I do have some weird ringing from inside my ear, usually it
rings so hard when it rains or among a crowd. This neurologist also found that
usually religious persons are epileptic, their brain shows some weird activity
not like any other normal people do, especially when they are praying. So after
this amazing yet unproved discovery I conclude that epilepsy = chosen people of
God. Don’t get to cocky or pessimist about it, I mean look at the proof that
was gathered here, it leads me to something so special but yet so mysterious. I
myself could say a religious person, from my childhood my parents guide me into
 how to be a greatest man to embrace the
world we are now with unconditional love which is gifted by our lord. When I
was a teenage I could say I loose in touch with God, things gets so
materialistic and superficial and when I found this facts I was again in touch
and always trying to get closer with dear Lord, right after my discovery I
always do the obligatory prayer and do zikir,
it’s saying the lord’s name as much as we can, maybe the Christians would say
hail Mary.

I read a lot of motivational books on self development. I learned self
hypnotism on conditioned relaxation and trust me on this one guys, IT REALLY
HELPS A LOT, I usually combine it with my prayers. After 8 months , now I am in
full control of myself, if I fall into the empty stare I can directly snap out
of it or would detect it coming, every time I pray hard the shocks get intense
but I ignored and before you know it the shocking becomes less and less. I also
ignored the ringing inside my head and again before I know it the ringing
becomes less and less. I don’t have mood swings anymore, not easily agitated, I
just say no to it, now I handle everything with a smile hence it didn’t
manifest into trauma or depression when I fail. I guess the greatest way to
heal from epilepsy is to acknowledge it, live with it and ignore it when it
becomes irritating. Medicines just worsen things, we become numb and dependant.
If we medicine could conditioned things in our body isn’t it better if we also
self-conditioned our body by believing and determine to get better, isn’t it
wonderful if we can fight it by conscious just as moving our muscle. I guess
perseverance is the key to fight back every disease, we got amazing people in
this world who have fought AIDS and cancer and these people are no different
than us, they eat rice or gravy and drink cola like us too, the only thing that
differ us from them is their great determination to be better. The most
important factor in healing is also love, we got to know that we are not alone
in this fight, let your parents your sister, your brother and our friends know,
I am sure if they really loves you they would support you 100%. Do you guys
remember the movie “the wonderful mind”? That movie was really inspiring to me,
he fought his disease by conditioning himself and having the basic
understanding that those are imaginary people.

as for me I do have basic
understanding, from all the people world, I was chosen to have an epilepsy and
I am very grateful for it because God has chose me to be given a gift of extra
conscious about myself and this world, as the greatest gift of God is health
and pure health itself could only be seen by the sick, so then guys we do have
special perspective that rarely people have so in a way we are special people.
After learning it more I also have one basic understanding: “I have epilepsy,
but epilepsy don’t have me!”

Hi Maggie.

Are you currently withdrawing off of any meds? "Brain shocks," which are just flat out the worst pain I've ever experienced, are very common in people who are weaning off a med to fast. I had "brain shocks" while withdrawing from Effexor XR too fast.

John

What I am experiencing is different than what the other descriptions provide. I've had this for years but it comes and goes away but it's driving me crazy.

 What I feel is a wave of electricity inside my entire head especially when I move my head to look in another direction. The whole room moves in jolts in the direction that I am moving my head.

 It's very disturbing, no pain, but prevents me from remaining calm and getting work done.

Nothing seems to help it when it hits me. Has anyone else experienced this? It's difficult to walk at times in the sense that I can loose my balance temporarily.

I have almost constant electrical shock feeling sin my head.  I have multiple Gran Mauls just diagnosed.  I wanted to try a really great Epitologist and Nuero maybe at Cedars since I go there for blood clot  disorder. Any Input,  how common is the contant shock feelings?

I also have had what feels like electrical shock in the back of my head. I had it over and over so much that my doctor recommended accupunture which worked like ground rods and electricity to distribute this to the needles to different parts of my body. It worked until I stopped treatment of the accupunture. My seizures are caused from a head injury from pressure caused where my hard hat liner was pressed into my head forcefully. Has anyone ever known anyone else this has happened to. I only know one other person.

Barbara in Houston...Howdy Maggie. I've had epilepsy for 40 yrs. In 2003, after switching to TOPAMAX I had the "lightening bolt" feeling run thru the entire left side of my body while resting in bed. After being seizure free for 11 years, grand mals started up. To this day no dr. can explain to me what that bolt of lightening was doing in my body or what it was. Then my grand mal seizures returned full blast as well and cannot be controlled. My left side is impaired, vision, co-ordination etc.

1. Keep a detailed diary of your episodes & events.
2. Read all inserts for adverse reactions
3. Ceck the FDA website for other information the manufacturer will not disclose (i.e. suicidal risk in some epilepsy drugs)
4. You have epilepsy, epiilepsy does not have you.