Electric shock feeling thru whole body

I live in the middle of nowhere and so it goes, people only venture into our E.R if they are hoping not to walk out alive. I wish someone had an answer or knew where to find it. All I can suggest is an MRI and finding a doctor, and a new one over and over until someone figures this out. We cant all have the same problem....can we?

I don't think we are talking about the same thing here. I don't have anxiety, depression or sudden jolts like touching an electrical outlet. I did human intel work mostly operating alone and with no backup and almost always placing myself in the wrong place at the right time. So anxiety and depression are nothing like what i am experiencing. Tell you what, if you want to know what I am talking about. Take a 9volt transistor battery and touch it to your tongue. When you do this pay close attention to the sensation & sound in your head and disregard the metallic, acidic taste. Now that is about as close as I could explain what it feels like going through the core of my body. It will happens mainly when I move and no other time be it just move my head or when I get up and walk around. If I sit still and don't move I do not get the sensation only when I get up and start to walk around. Some days are a lot worse than others especially when the wind is high and/or raining and/or the weather is changing fast like a front is coming through. Some would refer to it as a rapid change in barometric pressure. those are the times when it is real bad, to the point that it is difficult to concentrate on anything and of course the pain level is through the roof. My meds will help, but, they don't take it away completely. 

hi I to have fibromyalgia, just lately have had electic shock feelings in my legs usually after sitting.they dont last long just a quick zap. i havnt been taking any meds so maybe just part of fibro?

I am on Anti Depressant Duloxetine and have not taken for a week and feel this odd elecrical buzz in my face head and when I walk through my body..

dthis sounds like it might help me i feel like my cell phone has shock dthis feelin in my body. now im sic and this nerves travel in my body cant sleep and afraid feels like im going to have a heart attack

i believe this to be the root of dthe problem to me to is the use of my cell phone im always on it for long hours and now my body is electrical shocking and it scary. i havnt been to the dr yet no medical but im so tired cant sleep and all

You could check out kundalini syndrome!

Its anxiety, and you dont feel it but when you get it your adrenalin causes it and sometimes bowel movement  feeling constapated makes me get them. Nurotrasmiters sending signels to your body over active.  K- pin 3 times a day flax seed lemon in morn. with warm water 

I know about the electrical shock in the brain while on 'brain medication'...I was (wrongly) diagnosed with bi-polar and put on a large dose of Epival...a pill for epilepsy but my doctor said it helps bi-polar.  Long story short I do not have bi-polar and have not been on medications since 2006 (this is now 2012 and I am fine).  However, I do have PTST and I am now on colazapam (spell?) and 100 mg of seriqual.  Now, instead of the electrical shock in my brain that would wake me up when I was on Epival...I have a shivering horrid feeling throughout my entire body that only lasts for seconds or a minute.  I must move to make it stop and it does.  What the hell?  Even though the events are daily...mostly when I am waking up or going to sleep or just laying down they are so freaking painful they feel like they are lasting forever.  The pain is unbearable!  But brief.  My doctor has no clue and has ordered no tests to see what could be wrong.  I am wondering, since I know the Epival was causing those loud electric shocks in my brain when I was on that, if this seriqal (spell?) is not making this nerve (literally feels like every nerve is being tazered) problem has to do with the medications I am on. please email me at spirit_of_okanagan if you have similar issues.  We must get to the bottom of this because no one should live in fear of the next painful shockwave ravaging our bodies!CherylannP.S.  I do not have anxiety (the clomazapam reduced that) and there seems to be no reason for the event at the time it happens.  Sometimes I fear falling asleep that it will wake me as I doze into the sleep state.

I have had the "shock wave" syndrome so bad that it has caused me to severely limit my activities at times. I have fiibromyalgia, lupus and chronic fatigue syndrome for years now and I'm on a cocktail of a dozen+ meds from Plaquenil to control the lupus to stuff to make me sleep to other stuff to help me concentrate through the fibro-fog to antiDs for the pain and pain meds for when the antiDs don't work. I've had all the lab work, x-rays, MRIs, CTIs, neurologists, psychiatrists, more neurologists, general practioners, heart specialists, kidney specialists, etc, etc for so many years that I have lost count. No one can tell me what causes the shock waves.I have researched every food I put in my mouth, every vitamin I take, even the type of material my car seats are made from, just in case it is an external problem causing it. All the doctors can tell me is that I "might" have MS because they saw white matter in my brain scans, but then again that could be from the Fibromyalgia or the Lupus or the CFS or maybe a TIA, results from a concussion I had years ago, stress, allergies, too many meds, not enough meds, a change in meds, spine problems, hip problems, or whatever condition is most popular this year. I am ready to give up all my meds and let nature take it's course. So if anyone EVER comes up with a solution to this, I will gladly give them one of my normally functioning organs if they can find one in me that hasn't been affected.o.O:-P

I was googling and found this. It is reaaly hard to make people understand what I feel.  It  is real hard to sleep when this haapens.  I can't remember if I was in some medication when it started.  I have't been on any meds, but I noticed my episodes usually oocur when I am under a lot of stress

You need a spinal tap. It sounds as if you have had a battle with menigitis or tranverse mylitis

I was put on Duloxetine out of license to combat the side effects of pregabalin after having cancer, I have made it my goal this year since the all clear to come off all medication. I work as a dispenser in a pharmacy so have a good knowledge and great support in the best way to do this. However I noticed tonight while walking it was like an electric shock with every step I took, concentrated down the forearm and fingers, such a strange feeling, anyway, I agree with you, this is a withdraw ell symptom, nothing to be over concerned about unless it goes on for more than three weeks! Hopes this helps others, look into your medication, if you have not previously been taken any then consult your G.P. Best wishes V xx

Hey. I have had these feelings, the electric shock feeling, from neck down including arms) for few months now. I'm 20 and I'm college student. The college was stressful sometimes but that's not the thing when those shocks hit me. They usually begin when I'm hot, like in hot water, hugging someone with naked skin, having tons of clothes on myself etc.  It usually lasts as long as it's warm = stops when I get refreshed by some cold air or sum. I don't take any meds (except antihistaminatics during spring) so they are not the problem. I also try to make this feeling more comfortable by trying to enjoy it, it's hard but I think i'm getting there. What I also noticed is that I regularly get shocked by cars I touch, or maybe I shock them (:D). Anyway, if anyone here knows how to stop these or any other info, please respond. Thanks

Not sure if I get the same symptoms, but I have described it over the past 5 years as a wave of electrical charge coming over me, from toes upwards.  It used to linger around the legs, but these days comes right up to my neck.  I call it torture, slow torture, even though each episode doesn't last too long (minute or so) it is a dreadful feeling.  The difference I seem to have from others here is that it comes alive after I wake up, could be 5 seconds to a couple of minutes from that sleep wake transition, and bingo here it comes again.  If I could sleep through the night it wouldn't be so bad, just one episode, but when you wake up 20 times or so, that's 20 bouts of torture!  Some times I get it during the day, and like 'some guy'  get it when hot, next to bare skin, and definitely the only relief is to get cold.  Have been everywhere, sleep clinic, neurologist, doctors, nurses, even mentioned it to the dentist (you never know who might know someone else with this) ... nothing, they look at me as if I am crazy.  Finally I got to see the endocrinology, still waiting for some feedback.  I won't hold my breath, I realise that they don't know everything, I work in research myself, but it is when they say 'it's nothing' and 'it will probably go away' I get frustrated. She actually said, 'we'll give you some blood tests but we won't be taking this any further than that!' Where's their sense of research?  I'll update if I get any decent information to share.  By the way, if any of you are ladies and around the menopause age, it is like a hot flash, as if that isn't bad enough, but with the surge of nauseous electricity on the top!  I have tried natural progesterone (it's for men and women) which was good, but came off it to have all the tests done.  It takes a couple of weeks to get out of your system and 6 weeks to get back in.  If I don't get any information in the next coupld of months and nothing has changed then I'll go back onto it again.