Electric shock feeling thru whole body

I had Severe nerve damage due to messed up surgery. Taking a narcotic holiday... Means I weaned off everything. Went through withdrawals already. Why the hell am I now getting severe shocks that makes my while body lift up and jerk. No headaches associated. Help?

I could use help if offer is there still.

I thought I had some strange disease and didn't really want to tell people about what I was experiencing and what still happens to me. These light feels like electric shock/tingles through to my hands and sometimes up my neck to my head. It's such an uncomfortable feeling, and it sometimes makes me very wonky when I'm walking or standing when it happens that I can fall over. I have been to a GP and asked him to refer me to a neurologist for an EEG because I used to have epilepsy but grew out of it about 14 years ago. Thought it could maybe be that coming back but my tests thank Goodness were all clear and normal. I have been exhausted, very dizzy at times, my eyes feel like they are detioriorating every day. I get out of breath quite easily too, and then of course the electric sensations into my hands, neck and head. I hate showering because when I close my eyes to shower my feet clench into the ground and it feels like i'm going to fall over. Im not sure in which direction, I just feel like my head is spinning and I'm about to collapse. It's horrible. At the same time when I visited my GP, he did bloodtests on Thyroid, kidney function, early Menopause, and checked for any abnormalities in my blood, but the only thing there was and that they picked up is a deficiency of Vitamin B12.  I immediately started B12 injections, I can't believe that a lack of a vitamin it can cause such drastic symptoms, but I will wait and see if these injections work. I only started a week ago and I am hoping for the best.  

I just read your reply to the question about feeling tingling shock feeling through parts or all of the body. I get the same thing, including sweating a lot. This all just started about 2 years sgo and it's been getting more and more frequent. Did you ever find a diagnosis? Thanks   ***this post is edited by moderator *** *** private e-mails not allowed*** Please read our Terms of Use

I also get these zaps or electric shock type feelings in my head and body. I fear I will have a stroke or seizure...non of which has ever occurred but the shock feelings are scary. I take Paxil and Klonopin at low doses but for years was on Zoloft 150mg and had the same symptoms every once in awhile..what are they and does anyone know if they cause seizures??? I get the shock feelings even if I haven't missed a dose. Very strange and scary. My doctors have no idea what I'm talking about either...they just brush it off! Don't know what to do?? Brain scan or MRI?

I have been on Effexor 5 months and yesterday started having this SHOCK feeling also... when I walk and loud noises.. it is TERRIBLE.. I think the Effexor is doing this to me

I have only been experiencing these shocks for a few weeks now but it is definitely the worst thing I have ever felt. The very first episode scared the hell out of my mother because the shocks were so intense that it litterally looked like I was being electrocuted. My entire body would tense up. Sometimes it would be isolated to a small area or several small areas. I even woke up the next day with bruising all over my body from the intensity of the contractions on my muscles. EVERYTHING hurt. My previous primary said I have fibromyalgia and I have been on those medicines for a year now. I also have narcolepsy which we discovered around the same time. My medicines have not changed in about 9 months, once we figured out a combination that at least allowed me to function mostly like any normal person. But now I'm having these shocks. I have been to 3 different doctor's and have done extensive research on the subject along with the help of my sleep doctor. The other two doctors, family practices, that I have been to basically just said that I just wanted pain medicine and told me that I needed to have my previous doctors, specialists and primary, send their records on me and then "we'll see if there is anything we can do or if we even need to do anything." And of course the transfer of medical records would take 4 to 6 weeks to be received and looked over to see if anything needed to be done.... because having episodes of basically electrocution for hours at a time is apparently something that doesn't need immediate medical attention. The research I have done has done absolutely nothing to help me or reassure me, in fact the only good, reliable sources I have found have scared me. They all say that it is incredibly hard on your body and your brain and heart to have continuous or frequent, even if the shocks are small, electrical shocks throughout your body. In fact it can lead to a stroke or a heart attack if it goes on for too long and muscle damage is a major factor as well, and it doesn't take long if the episodes are serious enough. Since my first episode the shocks aren't as bad, but they now happen at least two, sometimes three, times a day and last for hours. It basically feels as though small electrical currents are hitting everything. Every nerve, every muscle, everything. And it doesn't take long for my muscles to feel like they would the day after a really hard workout. I'm still trying to get to the bottom of it and figure out what is causing it because the only thing in my life that has changed is that now I have electrical shocks attacking me. I hope at least somebody finds out some kind of answer because trust me I now know how you all feel and am searching for anything to help as well. I wouldn't wish this on anyone, especially if it's as bad as the ones I have or some of the ones I've read here. Good luck and if anybody gets a doctor that actually knows something, let us all know.

Adivan or Klonipine does the trick for me

I was diagnosed with vertigo for it....I'm not really sure thats what it is...but it's a form of it my doctor says..

These Electric shock are most probably of Vitamin B 12 efficiency. So contact u r doctor for b12 tablets or injection.

In 2011 I sustained a traumatic back injury. Reverse hyper extension of the spine resulting in multiple fractures in the spine, detachment of transverse vertib, and nerve damage. Was put on everything under the sun for pain, was neglected by workmans comp being it was a on the job accident. I have suffered mentally and physically from this injury. Re injured after original complaint 6 times to current. I have adapted to this trauma with help from mental health, I have discovered info that has brought me 1/4 of the way back to who I was before this all began. First time injured seriously. About 6 months ago, the constant stabbing pain in several locations in my back went numb. My legs didnt hurt anymore.were before it felt like some one had a rope around my hips and was pulling me straight down to hell causing unbelievable swelling in the hips and legs. It just went numb. No were near the mind numbing experience before. About two weeks ago, I noticed the pain starting to come back, now with a new symptom. When I focus on something, the point were focus completes on the object, i got a electrical impulse, thats the only way to describe it. When I close my eyes, I see white flashes that accompany these charges. This scares me. It makes me fill faint to the point now of close to passing out. It is getting worse. Any help would be nice. Thanks for your time. Was curious what you have found out. I feel like its going to be a nero symptom. Back is also starting to get much worse with the pain in the legs and hips.

This may be late but if you stopped any of your meds or missed a few days those symptoms are withdrawal symptoms from medications I had them from an anti depressant and Ativan is what they prescribed to calm the symptoms

Well, I am having what feels like light, electrical impulses traveling across the front of my hip bone.  It feels like when you have your phone in your pocket and it's set to vibrate, and just before the ring you get that "buzz" feeling.  The impulses are just over the front of my hip bone and nowhere else, and it's every 4 - 5 seconds.  It's not painful, just weird.  I've never been on any anti-depressants, nor have any of my meds, (which are only vitamins / supplements) have changed.   It's just a very weird sensation and I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this, and what you did about it.

I had a very intense episode last night, it happens when i have fallen asleep while watching tv, it starts with a sensation that starts from my female organs and begins to intensly move up my body it gets to my head and i have a electrical jolt, but what scary is i am then in a paralized state trying to get up and can't i see the tv on and think i am up but i am not and can't break free of this paralized state. After it passes i snap out and am able to get up. I had a CT scan and eeg which showed no sezuire and that there were no abonormalities in my brain. This is the 3rd epiosode which started about a year ago, I know that some of this has something to do with menopuse and possible hormonal inbalance but it is scary especially when I am in this paralized state some where between being asleep and awake, i hope someone can help me understand what is going on as sezuires have ruled out.  

As a person who gets vertigo when I am high up I get strong eltric shocks that shoot mostly through my lets into my feet. Today I feel sick, tired, no fever, and am having these shocks all over my body multiple times a minute amd when ever I move. Feels exactly like the vertigo shocks but without the vertigo and all over my body. Was doing some Google searches for like symptoms.