Electric Shock sensations

[mschvusangel]

Does anyone ever have electric shock sensations?  It feels as though someone is zapping me with electricity in the back of my head.  The feeling starts at the base of my skull and travels down the back of my neck.  The sensation only lasts a few seconds, but sometimes it does it over and over for several minutes.  I have had these before, but it was very few and it very infrequent, but they have returned and now are happening every day.  

I have googled this and all I can find is withdrawal from antidepressants, or something related to MS.  I have never taken antidepressants, and I haven't been on anything else recently either.

[immisceo]

Hi morenzo,

For your own security, your email address was censored by the comment posting software. It's generally seen as far safer to exchange any personal details with members in the relative safety of the private messaging system available here on MedHelp as anything posted in the forum is publicly viewable by anyone in the world.

Please remember, here on the Multiple Sclerosis board, we're all regular patients, not medical experts in this field.

This is actually a very old post that you probably found through a search engine. It's hard to be found at the bottom of a list of 213 comments, so perhaps you'd like to start a fresh question of your own using the 'post a question' button at the top. You're more likely to have people stopping by to try and help that way.

Are you concerned you may have multiple sclerosis? If you were raised in Cameroon too, this wouldn't be one of the first things to look for due to the proximity to the equator. There does seem to be a link with distance from the equator and prevalence of MS.

What you describe could be so many things, or indeed nothing to be concerned with at all. It would be up to a medical assessment to narrow things down a bit for you. It could be nerve damage, spinal issues, an occupational stress injury. Perhaps begin to keep track of when it happens and what you were doing when this happens and have this list ready when you visit a doctor. But I don't think you will be looking at MS as a likely cause.

[dawnh211]

I get that sensation in my feet as well, I describe it as a buzzing sensation.  It doesn't hurt but it is annoying.  I also use it as a meter as to when I need to rest.  I also have had them in random locations that come on suddenly and are very painful but they go away quickly, thankfully.

[morenzo]

hello i am morenzo from cameroon. i have some light shocks sensations on my right palms. it happen to me at least twice a day. can someone help me to interprete that to me.

[schdale]

The only sure way to get rid of it all is .........Prayer!!!!! Jesus said, if you ask for anything in my name and Believe it will be done. So why not give him a try? HE healed me from Asthma so he can take these zaps away to.

[Bluebirdy]

All of your symptoms can be attributed to MS, and the muscle spasms are made more painful by the Fibro, My case is similar to yours. I have only 1 MS lesion on the MRI, so no local Dr. will put on my chart that it's MS until there is more than 1 lesion, hence the name "multiple' sclerosis. Its so very frustrating though, because I'm having so many of the MS symptoms that are worsening over time. Liquid vitamin B complex that you put under your tongue to dissolve into the  blood vessels there has helped a lot, and vitamin D has helped even more. It heals the CNS and vitamin B complex heals nerve endings and helps with various physical problems.Vitamin D is so strongly related to MS that the Northern countries that get less sunshine (vit D source) have the most MS incidence, and when they started getting people to take vitamin D in those countries, MS incidence went down dramatically.The sublingual (under tongue) vit B complex is mostly destroyed  by stomach acid if you take the pills, so the sublingual liquid or pellets are more absorbable. I buy both my B and D at iherb *******, (in case links are deleted here, I hope you can figure out that link the way I wrote it.) That's the cheapest site for vitamins/supplements/natural remedies I've found.

[terrie333]

i have this same sensation in my heal since yesterday. let me know what it is if you find out!  thanks, terrie