Brain zaps

[Akcowboy]

  How do you all deal with these shocking sensation, I had them off and on now for some time now and I'm trying to do some welding and every time I put my helmet down I get zapped by it 8 times now I been hit with it running though my head and down my back

  Cowboy

[pao101]

Some days I feel this way: fatigue, very sleepy, also numness and tingles at my legs and I my head feels like a jelly, feel like I am going to pass out but I don't. I have see 5 neurologist and non have an answer, please I anybody feel this answer this otherwise If you do not have a clue, do not make jokes about it please.

[Akcowboy]

  Thanks Heather,
  Yes I been getting them for sometime now, it's just mainly when I wake up in the mornings but I had to do some welding and as I would flip down the helmet with my head I would get zapped and it runs down my back I did tell my pdoc about this and he did a little testing on it mainly on my ares and legs but didn't say much and took more blood for testing and I asked him when he was going to send me to the nerou for more testing and all he said was if it keep happening and see how the blood work comes back then he will refer me soon

  And I to hope you have nice Thanksgiving to

  Cowboy

[Heather3418]

Do you get a "shock feeling" when you bend your head forward and does it seem to travel from the back of your head, down the back of your body to the bottom of your spine?  Can you reporduce this everytime you put your chin to your chest?  This is called L'hermitte's.

This may all be due to your flipping your welding helmet face guard, back and forth all the time or it can be a sign of something going on in the spinal cord.

When this first happened to me, I thought someone plugged my body into a light-socket.  As the years passed having this dern MS...I learned to ignore the "zaps."  They happen so often all over my body, I just don't pay attention to them anymore.  At first they scared me and now since I know that they are harmless (but yet a symptom) I don't worry about them.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving, Cowboy...

Heather