sensation symptom description

[truelove47]

Hello everyone,


How would you decribe the sensation
of  zapping and zinging pain.?
Here  where I live (on the east cost) we would say it is the feeling of hitting your crazybone on your elbow,

but the sensation can happen in one of more places on you body. Is this expression used all over the world?
Thank you   Linda

[Quixotic1]

Use you own words for the doctor.  I asked my doctor if he ever heard of people having zinging and zpping sensations.  His response:  "ALL the time."

It is always safest and best to use your own words.

Quix, MD

[Nancy T]

Yes, hitting your funnybone (as at least some of us on the West Coast call it)--except somewhere else in your body--is how I've described some of the weird nerve sensations I've had.

Others I've had include zaps of pain like a bolt of lightning running down the front of my thigh or below my ear; and spots in my feet, groin, ribcage, elbow, and hand where I get shocks like static electricity.

Describe it however it feels to you. That is the best way to convey it accurately to your doctor or anyone else.