Medication side effect question (Tofranil)

Alright, so. Hello and all that. Got a question and let's see how concisely I can do this.

I'm 25 and male. I smoke and drink moderately. About four months ago while at work I suddenly got the tight chest, shallow breathing and numbness I've come to recognise as a panic attack. Took me to the hospital in an ambulance, horribly embarrassing stuff. It seems my attacks don't have a trigger that sets them off, and can hit completely out of the blue. I resisted medication, as I thought since I knew what it was I would be able to handle it. Well, two or three attacks like that and multiple emergency room visits made me change my mind.

My primary doctor prescribed me Prozac. Me and Prozac did not get along. I had severe tremors, pain and other strange feelings in my skull and what my friends have nicely decided to term 'rocket-poops.' Okay, so. I know my body tends to react to even a small amount of medicine. After being on it for three days the doctor had me stop, and the withdraw was hell to go through. I'm sure you guys know, the inability to focus, the feeling that something in hemorrhaging in your brain, all that good stuff. So he put me on Lexapro. Much smaller dosage, That lasted two weeks. It worked to calm what I'm coming to recognise as my anxiety very well, but the tremors remained. The doctor said the side effects would 'increase by a magnitude' the longer I was on the medicine, so he took me off. No withdraw that time, for which I am very thankful, but the doctor decided that I shouldn't be on SSRIs.

He then put me on Tofranil. 25mg a day. I've been on it for about a month now and its done great at curbing my anxiety. For the most part. I still have some problems, but I can feel what would be an attack subdued, if that makes sense. But I'm getting some weird feelings in my head. Not painful or detrimental, but weird. If you've ever touched one of the purple static lamps, the ones with the electricity zapping about inside, that's the way the inside of my head feels. Not constantly, but I tend to notice it in especially emotionally intense situations. When I asked my doctor about it, he said he'd never heard of that before, but that it's probably not the medicine and that I should continue taking it. Now, the medicine is doing a very good job at what it's supposed to do, but this feeling is worrying me, and I wonder if anyone else who's taken this medicine (or any other meds, for that matter) has experienced something like this.

As crazy as it sounds, I worry I'm becoming hypochondriac. I feel as if I'm overblowing the things that I'm feeling; various aches and pains become worries of organ failure in my brain. But then again, I don't want to be the guy that dies 'cause he's too dumb to go to the hospital, ya know?

Anyway, I'm long winded and for that I apologise. Long story short, has anyone ever experienced that feeling in their head before? Thank you very much in advance.

[MMahon]

What you experience is actually quite common with anxiety disorder/depression.  The list of symptoms from anxiety is virtually endless.  Medication really just masks the symptoms you have and we can frequently tell they are still happenning 'behind the scenes' so to speak.
I always say that with anxiety disorder our nervous systems are like sunburnt skin.  If you have ever had a bad sunburn then you know what I mean.  Even the slightest touch to the skin is painfull when we would otherwise not even notice it.  So with our nervous systems the slightest little thing is highly amplified and not in a good way.
I always find trying to keep my mind occupied on things other then myself and how I feel as the best medicine.   It's easier said then done!  Take care.