Electric shock feeling thru whole body

What you're discussing feels similar to my experiences of "electrical impulses" in the brain and down from my shoulders.  Additionally, (and I'm fairly young) did yard work...and ended up wearing a knee brace (Neoprene with plastic 'hinges') - and after not needing it for a week+, I can still 'feel' it as if I were wearing the brace...

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nasty feeling it really sucked going thru that. I just got of everything it took about 2 months but i figured my god can it really be any worse. i still have to deal with the depression at times, pain from multiple surgeries, stress and relationships but i try to remember how i felt on the drugs meant to help and endure and try to learn each time a little bit better how to cope. Taper off the meds if you can, survive the withdrawl and see how you r without them. It's tough but doable. Good luck, S

after 6 years of trying to figure out why my body felt like it was shocking me, along with tons of other symptoms as well, a doctor finally found out that i had a severe vitamin b12 deficiency. she started me on b12 shots every day for a month, then once a week for about 6 months, then once a month for a year. i felt relief within the first few days and it kept getting better with time. it might be worth a try to have your vitamin levels checked. not one doctor in the whole 6 years i spent trying desperately to find out what was wrong with me even thought to check my vitamin levels. i got new insurance and chose an internist as my primary care physician and it was the first thing she did. bless her

I have electrical shocks also I was on celexa and came off it and get the zap.alsomy brother in law we were overseas in the army not sure what it's from but I have learned to not let it scare me deffinetley nervous system problem or spinal or muscular skeletal of some sort it is really weird the feeling when it happens it. An freak ya out but don't let it

I have this felling thru my body start right before I falling sleep, feel like someone give me a electric cord and stuck on my body very weird!!! I can see my body jump from the bed is only happend when I lay down to go sleep.most affected in my lower body area.

couldn't hurt to have your doctor check your vitamin levels. a vitamin deficiancy can have very harmful side effects. i had a severe b12 deficiancy and the b12 shots helped me tremendously!

These are probably hypnic jerks - most people get them when the body is winding down to sleep, especially when over tired.

I have been having this electric shock feeling for years, mostly in my head, sometimes my whole body, i started having it years ago, way before i ever started on any kinds of med's. then it stopped for years. i started having it again a few weeks back, off and on, my doctor did blood work...potas. was a little low.i am taking med's for that, and it has stopped again. and to mangopie, you are so wrong, most people do not have electric shocks go through their head or body unless something is wrong.

Okay, five minutes ago I started feeling extremely tired, although I had lots of sleep last night.  I started to drift off on my sofa and BANG...that icky, zappy, electrically charged feeling spilled through my whole body again...woke me right up.  I have to move to shake it off and then it goes away that quickly.  I have learned to DREAD those feelings.  I do not believe it is a lack of some supplement...that billion $ industry already sucked up most of my money with zero results and I refuse to give them more.  I eat right so I don't need "supplements."  To me, it really feels like someone or some energy is walking through my body.  A bad energy.

supplements are very diffferent than b12 shots. my electric shocks were diagnosed as a b12 deficiancy and the b12 shots worked. a lack of b12 effects the nerve endings which was causing the zapping electrical shocks all over my body for 6 years. i can totally understand why you don't trust the supplement industry but you can't throw the baby out with the bathwater. i empathise with your frustration. i was so frustrated after 6 years of doctor visits that i told my internist that finally diagnosed the problem that if she didn't find out what was wrong i didn't know what i would do, that i could not live like that anymore.  

Hi, This is my story through hell - I hope it helps you, im not fully recovered but Im almost there.throughout the past 2 years I broke down completely mentally. Im currently getting better and applying to medical school. I actually went last year to medical school, but was basically screwed over by everyone I was close to, plus I got kicked out of school for things out of my control.... To my bestfriend sending me to jail, to another "best friend" who was a sociopath, trying to fuck with my head in my most vulnerable time. I always knew he was odd but I thought he was a good person as I always went out of my way to help them, yet when I was very vulnerable, and I talked to this sociopath as a friend trying to get help...all hes was interested in was studying me like I was a lab rat poking at all my problems....and sumhow I convinced myself he was the only one I had left, in reality I could have found someone to talk to but he was someone i became a "friend" with so I went to him of course.....eventually I had a mental breakdown. I couldn't look a person in the eye anymore without being terrified of what really was on there mind. I began to close myself away from the outside world, I hated the things that would go through my head, cause I thought only a crazy person would think like this I need stop I rejected a part of my mind, I was terrified to think, I couldnt even smoke a joint cause it made me think so much and I was terrified of my own thoughts. I came close to suicide thinking that it was the only way out now. I kept telling myself I will force myself to hold on until my parents pass away, and then Ill do it, since i did not want to burden them with my death. And then my brother and sister popped into my head.  I could not put that burden on them and Id have to find a way to make life bearable enough to live. All these things started happening to my body throughout this ordeal which made me think I was more fucked up. I kept thinking it was all in my head, I was just imagining it and I tryd to reject myself even more so. It began with tension headaches, at the time I did not know what it was and it scared me and i thought I was loosing it constantly panicing in my mind. By the way a tension headache is like a feeling of tightness around your skull, like theres a rubberband on your head or your wearing a really tight hat, I never really thought of it as a headache until I did some research and figured it out. Then I began getting these icepick headaches, where it feels like someone has a needle and theyre constantly stabbing at your skull and brain, its excruciating pain like someone is ripping apart your brain into shreds. Which in turn made me think Im more crazy and added more stress, and symptoms kept adding on and I kept freaking out about them, I was spiraling into hell. Many times id be lying in bed petrified of everything, trying to pretend to go to sleep so everyone wouldnt realize how fucked up I was, none the less everyone knew something was very wrong but I kept it inside. My family had not seen me for a whole year and I changed from this delightful friendly outgoing guy, to a broken down petrified man. Always when I was lying in bed I was exteremly paranoid about everything even my breathing to keep it steady, I didnt want to burden anyone with my "insanity". At times Id just want everything to stop and leave and nothing would matter just make it all pause. The closest I came to this was being frozen in fear, every single muscle in my body full tensed for hours at times, where I couldnt think anymore because I was so afraid, I couldnt even breathe at times. Normally your brain tells you to breathe naturally, but Id stop breathing for what felt like minutes, to only realize i was about to suffocate and id begin gasping for air. I began to think that maybe this was my problem and all my symptoms are a result of brain damage from lack of oxygen.....I was constantly trying to figure out what was wrong whether some neurological disease had taken over...many times i really thought it did, and i was yet so afraid of everything and everyone ---  (the cause of the breakdown was people i loved and cared for screwing me other,  it made me loose all trust in people and everything around me and even myself for not being able to see that I was breaking my back helping those who wouldnt break a sweat for me, it sucks i had to learn this way but im grateful to be able to live again and i feel this is making me stronger then I ever was before) --- I could not open up humanity. I also remeber lying in bed when I was at the bottom of the well, to petrified to get up, to petrified to sleep, to petirified to do anything, I just didnt want to exist and I just kept fighting my own mind shoving it away --- (which in reality you can never get away from, Ive finally learned after some severe consequences.) --- at that time when I was at my lowest and almost had no fight left in me, Id get these shocks all over my body like i was being electrcuted, half the time I wouldnt notice it because I had pushed my mind so far away, I began loosing sensation in half my body.  I remeber looking in the mirror at my face, and for some reason Id only be looking at one side or really recognizing half my face as my own almost like someone with cerebral palsy where you only show emotion on half you face, and when I realized that I looked at the other half of my face and it was like there was a stranger looking at me in the mirror and that petrfied me, I literally couldnt identify it which scared me more because I knew it was me but I had this feeling of  looking at a random individual when I looked at that part of my face. and that there was a man in the mirror looking at me but at the same time I knew it was me, i hadnt lost it and thought there was a stranger in the room. I felt even more insane and pushed myself even farther away. Ive concluded that I fought part of my mind so much I no longer recognized that part inside of me. It was weird because half my face looked extremely tired like it was dying off, and my other half of my face was looking tired too due to insomnia throughout this whole ordeal, but not like the other half I could see something was severely wrong and it petrified me even more when I thought about it, this constant FEAR made me panic and it prevented me from thinking of a way to solve these my problems. Instead I felt like I was on a track team running the 100m meter sprint in my mind 24/7 trying to get away from myself. One thing you will learn about my is I am the most stubborn person you will ever meet IFFF i think im right, when someone shows me im wrong I can accept that fact and move on. When I was in the state of constant fear I wanted to get back to normal so badly. I couldnt give up and let myself stay in what I thought a state of insanity. Truthfully though, I was only in this state because I was being so strong willed in fighting my mind. I tryed to escape so badly that i pushed apart of myself to the brink of knowing it existed anymore, even being able to reocgnize it existed. I couldnt give up on myself and I knew(thought) I had to fight until I had no strength left in my body and then push somemore, I wanted my life back. and I would never give up. Being in this constant state of panic, I could not think straight and use my logic to realize there was no issue I just had to stop running and accept myself. Instead i spent every second, of every minute, of every hour, of everyday for several months running from part of myself pushing thinking I was going in the right direction. I believed it wasnt a part of me and  those thoughts stopped exisiting practically. I felt better cause I couldnt recognize those scary thoughts anymore, by better i mean i could have a minute of peace where i felt ok even though i was screwing myself up even more, those minutes felt like eternal heaven. Those few moments of peace really gave me hope that Id be able to enjoy life again maybe atleast on some level. I started checking out my symptoms online, and it really helped reading about other people going through the same stuff realizing I wasnt crazy. This opened my mind up to the idea that maybe i was wrong about many of the things I thought about myself and how to solve these problems, like runnin away from myself. I still do get petrified everyday about stuff that dont matter, but instead of running away I face these fears and they go away. The world is coming back to me and Im going harder than ever before. Even thought i went thru hell, I think this whole ordeal has helped me gain the will to face my all my fears as life throws them at me, theres no stopping me now, ive been given a second chance from what i thought id never recover and now i find comfort in uncomfortable and scary situations because I know everytime i force myself into one of these I face another fear and I will face them all. The more fears I face the more beautiful life will become and right now lifes great, and im excited to see how much better its going to get. Never give up. and dont ever runaway when you feel uncomfortable. All my symptoms from the headaches, to eletricshocks, to not being able to recognize half my face, were a result of me running, were my body trying to show me that i was wrong but i wouldnt listen, if you get shocked then dont worry its only your body trying to tell you something listen to it dont be afraid and uncomfortable, but be open to it and accept it, recognize it, Your bodys trying to show you something dont be stubborn like me and make urself go through the ordeal I did, because frankly if i didnt feel bad about putting the burden of my death on my family I probably would not be here today and it sad that a single thought can spark it all. I remeber finding comfort reading about people opening up and telling me about there problems similar to mine. It really helped bring back some peace into my mind, so I want to return the favor and share my story, and tell you your not insane, theres no such think, we all are just in different states of mind, if you have a problem then find a means possible to solve it, but DONT WORRY ABOUT IT, you can worry for months and not a single thing will change except youll be more stressed and cause damage to your health. Learn from me :D, there is always hope dont ever give up!

Bless your heart. Iv been dealing with this for years. No one understands unless they have it. Such a weird and painful feeling. I have to shake my leg and take all meds. HURTS. I can get someone to sqeeze my foot and the pain is hard to explain. I have been told by Docs that I have fibromyalgia. Was told to go on gluten free diet. I have been on one for 3 weeks. I seem to be better. BUT it has started back. Nerves will twitch. Nerve pain starts in foot middle way(at the arch) and under toes. I have knocks in feet and the nerve pain is very hard to deal with. PLEASE help. What do I do. Been to Arthirtis Specialist in Jackson ,Ms and just 3 weeks ago I went to Osterners.

I have been having these "shock waves" or "zaps" as well. My first bout with them was 4 year ago after I stopped using Zoloft cold turkey. I was told these zaps were caused by me coming off the meds all of a sudden. I stayed off the meds and the zaps stopped after about 4 weeks. I have insomnia - I have been medically diagnosed with this and for a few years took prescription meds. I have been off the meds for about 6 months and replaced them with melatonin (this was approved by my doctor). This week I just started having these zaps again. I am not on any other medications. I do not think my issue is coming from meds this time. I have been stressed out lately and I’m wondering if I am having some type of anxiety attack?