Electric shock feeling thru whole body

Mmm interesting reading here...I have been getting electric shocks through my body and it's worse at night when I am tired or nearly asleep...they even wake me. After reading all the replies I am now sure it's the endep I have been giving by my doctor for relief from my shingles pain. Though I seem to work the opposite to everyone else...I started off taking 25 mg a night to help me sleep without pain..but that never stopped it..so the doctor upped it too 50 mg..still the shingles pain wouldn't let me sleep..now she is giving me 100 mg a night to take...Ok the shingles pain has finally stopped but now I am getting these tingles and shocks all through my body and I reckon it's the endep...So now I am going to wean myself off them and see how I go...  

I have these, so called sensations as well. At first I thought it was from maybe my house being electric, that I did not have enough moisture in the air, but now it is going on roughly a year that I have been feeling these shocking sensations, they hurt. When I move it seems to shock me, and my scalp on the top of my head seems to feel, like my hair is standing on end. I am not on any kind of medication, so those who think it is because of that, it is not. My legs at night, I can not make them comfortable, I have elevated them, but that does not seem to help. I have had a tightening feeling in my back just below my shoulder blades. I don't know if that has anything to do with the shocking sensations. ANYONE WITH ANY IDEAS ON HOW TO GET RID OF THIS, PLEASE HELP!

Ok thought I would come back and say...I cut my endep intake down to 50mg and all my shock sensations have now gone...So as far as I am concerned this is what did it for me... Kbiele that is exactly what was happening to me...it was like a pain but not...and my legs especially no matter where I put them...for maybe a second I thought yeah that's got it...then the feeling would come back...I am only saying this because I feel the endep altered something in my brain which caused this to happen to me...Well maybe you already have that somewhere within your brain and need something to alter it back..  

I am 17 years old.  I've read through the comments on this page and my situation is kind of a different matter than most of them.  I have NOT taken any medications and I've been getting this electric shock feeling on my back body and head every time I exercise.  I am kind of nervous, but it only happens whenever I use force or attempt movement; running, exercising courses, etc.  If someone can possibly tell me what is wrong or have any suggestions, please comment.  

Hi everyone! Thank you to every single person who posted here. I know this can be a really lonely feeling and it is very comforting to encounter people who know what you are talking about.  I have had this problem for years now. It started just after I began taking an antidepressant. It wasn't from withdrawals, but actually from the medication itself. After all of my different symptoms started, including very painful shocking sensations throughout my whole body, I went to several different, very prestigious hospitals to get it checked out. My tests were all a little off, but the doctors couldn't pin point what it was.  I finally decided to take myself off of the meds. And within about 3 weeks my symptoms were cut in about half, but they were not gone. For the next 6 months or so I tried so many things to try to get all of the medication and their effects out of my system, and a lot of them helped a great deal. I still have the shocking, but with the things I do, it is getting better and better.  Like many of you have said, it feels like I am plugged into an outlet, pretty much 24/7 and just have a ton of electricity flowing through me. I have never felt anything like it before medication. I don't touch medication anymore.    Here are some things that have helped me immensely. acupuncture- I see an acupuncturist who is very good and experienced (I am not sure if people can contact each other in this community, but if anyone would like me to ask her for a referral, please feel free to contact me). This has helped possibly more than anything else I have done. It seems to remove the pent up gunk in my body and also help the electric sensation to move more freely out. magnesium- this would be my other most important recommendation. Magnesium is one of things we tend  to be the most deficient in, and it can cause anxiety and muscle tension. It just helps release some of the pain and tension.  So, my two main things I have found to help are acupuncture and magnesium.    I'll write a list of many other things I have found that help.  Anything that cleanses the system. If you are like so many of us in this thread and it seems to be caused by medication for you, then to me the answer is not more meds, but no meds and get the meds and their old remaining chemical damage out of your system. So, "detox" You can do something called "chelation" or "iv" therapy. This feels really good actually. You find a clinic that does it, which can be hard to locate. They set you up with an iv that cleans your blood with vitamins. This helps draw toxins from your blood and body.  Herbal detoxes. Read up on a product before you buy it and make sure it is high quality, and has a lot of great reviews. For example Traditional Medicinals brand of tea has a tea called "detox." Sauna (far infrared sauna) is EXTREMELY helpful. It feels amazing. This type of sauna penetrates more deeply into your body than other saunas, therefore releasing more tension and toxic elements from deep inside your body.   Alkalize your body. This feels very good too, and pretty much helps with any health issue you may have. Eat greens and vegetables. Eat more healthy, less processed and less acidic foods. Most people's body ph is extremely acidic. If you alkalize your body (you can get ph strips at a health store to test your ph), you can heal a lot of illnesses.    Another thing I found that had some immediate pain relief impact was noni juice.    I hope this is helpful. Happy healing to everyone

I think that's what my problem is, I'm not even depressed but due to anxious feelings my Dr assumed I was and put me on them, I stopped taking them because I felt they did no good and lately I have been having bouts of insomnia and this twitching shock feeling, I was afraid it was a precursor to a stroke from not sleeping and poor diet and just plain malnourichment, but I'm "glad" to see that most people have been experiencing similar symptoms from similar causes. So I think it has something to do with neurological issues such as stress or meds.

I had insomnia too. Sometimes still do. Magnesium supplements almost completely wipe that out for me and good quality chamomile tea.

I too started feeling the shocks after starting anti depressants. They began about 10 years ago when I tried to ween myself off of Prozac. The shocks were so intense I couldn't do it. I continued to tell my doctor, (although I don't believe she believed me at the time), but I was then put on Zoloft. Zoloft seems to be even worse than the prozac was. I could go a couple of days before the shocks set in and with Zoloft, it can happen in less than 24 hours of not taking the next dose. My new doctor said that this is uncommon, but my body must be especially "sensitive" to the medication and what I'm describing is withdrawal. I'm very displeased with this information. The doctors, pham companies and FDA do not know the causes and they seem to dismiss these problems in others as I'm now reading. Are these drugs actually safe? What are we doing to our brains? I can barely move from my chair on days that I've slept in longer than usual. I am assuming that my serotonin level has dropped so low that the effects are the shocks. Since the zoloft increases the serotonin (and other SSRIs), the body gets used to the increased level and when it no longer has it, the brain sends these zaps into our body. I'm nowhere close to being a medical doctor, these are just my experiences and my assumptions. Thanks for allowing me to post as well as see that I'm not the only one who is suffering from this very different type of condition.    

I also have a feeling of electricity, it starts on the left side of my abdomin and goes to my whole left side of my body including my face. I take no drugs but have found that coffee brings it on. Here is what I think happened, while picking tomatoes in my garden last yr. I felt my back pop. No pain. Then I noticed a vertabre sticking out with a bruise on it. When I arch my back after sitting a while my chances of electricity feelings are greater. I think the coffee was stimulating an already bad nerve from my spine. I have been in the hospital for this, they didn't check my back and the vertabre had popped back in by then anyway. They checked EVERYTHING else and found no reason for this. It is scary and I turn snow white and almost pass out from it. Sometimes when I go to bed it feels like the bed is vibrating. Since it's been going on for a while and I'm still alive I try not to stress but I[m pretty sure it's spinal even though my back feels OK. I know a man that broke his back and felt buzzing in his legs until he had surgery.

I have never been on antidepressents..but I have been getting these electrical shock feelings over the last year.  Usually starts with a shock in my elbow almost like a funny bone feeling and then I can feel them in different parts of my body.  I am a smoker and have had a bit of a stressful life in the last few years...but I am not clinically depressed...I am 50 yrs old and am worried its a prelude to a stroke or something...but oddly enough I was also told I was having preludes to migraines...I am not really sure what is exactly causing these shock (for lack of a better expression) feelings but they generally start at night...

I didnt read all the posts so I dont know if it was mentioned. I have had the shocks for as long as I can remember.....usually when I was tired or sleeping. Then they started to be when I was moving around and then all day at times. Went to a nuerologist and he did an EEG....results are partial seizures it the temporal lobe. Partial is when it is in a localized part of the brain so you are awake and aware of it.

I googled electric shock and found this site. It happened only once a few years ago and I wasn't on any meds, and had nothing wrong with me. I was laying down and upon starting to sit up I got an electric shock starting in my stomach and as I raised up the feeling traveled through my body. My bedroom had carpet and when I put my feet on the floor the feeling got worse and went through my feet and legs. I ran to the bathroom which had no carpet and the feeling stopped in my feet but got so bad in my body, arms, hands and upper legs that I thought I was dying. I sat down on the floor and it got even worse. It was much much worse than running into an electric fence. It felt like what I would think being in an electric chair would feel like. I can not describe how painful this was, nothing can compare to this pain. This whole experience lasted about 40 minutes, intense, death like pain. Afterwards, I lived in fear of this happening again for a long time, and at times I start thinking about it and get worried again. Anyone have any answers?

i had the shocks for a while and i went to a specialist and he said i had spinal meningitis and when it gets inflammed your nervouse sysytem trips out and you get the shocking sensation. all the doctor said was to buy benadryl and it went away :D

I, too, have been having these electrical shock/burning sensations. I described it as a similar sensation to having electrical stimulation (as given by a physical therapist) but turned up too high.   They happen mostly when I lie down to sleep, and every time I roll over -waking me up.  After the sensation, I usually have a hot flashy feeling and tend to sweat.    I am not on any antidepressents or other "drugs".   I do tend to have a few glasses of red wine in the evenings, and that makes the pain go away a little bit, but it certainly hasn't stopped the syndrome.  Now it seems I have restless leg, too, after I lie down in bed.  It's been happening for 4 years.  I've been tested for MS - nothing found.  My chiro suggests it might be heavy metals toxicity.  I have yet to explore that.   It makes me nuts and keeps me from sleeping, too.  Besides, it hurts!

So, then, what happened? What do you do about these "partial seizures"?