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woman from Europe
01-20-2007, 03:25 PM
Are you taking any antidepressants? Some of them are giving shocks like that.
LaMemChose
01-20-2007, 04:05 PM
Don't know if this is the same or not, but when I turn my head a certain way I get what I call "shock pops" from my elbow into my thumb and index finger on my right side. It feels like I'm "sparkling" out the ends of my thumb and finger, like I've hit my funny bone, gone exponentially electric.
To say it's not pleasant is quite the understatement.
David Berg
01-20-2007, 05:15 PM
This is one of the nastiest types of neuropathic pain, according to anyone I've heard from who experiences them. I have a short page on the topic, but this page really needs to be re-written as I look it over now.
http://www.painonline.org/shoot.htm
There's a guy in South Africa who did a great job describing his pain. Apparently his original site is no longer available, but I found a version of his pain journal on archive.org.
http://web.archive.org/web/20040311073117/www.lando.co.za/pdp/Frame03.asp
adi chicago
01-20-2007, 05:26 PM
i have the same kind of pain ,electrcal shocks,spasms,burning sensation all over my body from the neck down.i live in hell since my injury 2002.
woman from Europe
01-20-2007, 05:35 PM
no anti's , was on Lexapro for 2 years , 20mg a day. one morn , one later. i just quit taking them about 2 weeks ago. CC makes me happy now.
We have different names so I don't know what kind that is. But it happened to me when I started on Cipramil(Citalopram. hydrobromid. aeqv. citalopram. 10 mg, resp. 20 mg, lactos) and one year later again when I stopped. The doctor said it was normal and it is written in the medicin book here as side effect when you are starting and withdrawing.
doingtimeonmyass
01-20-2007, 05:35 PM
i live in hell since my injury 2002.
At least hell has an Internet connection! ;)
sorry, adi
metronycguy
01-21-2007, 01:06 AM
i have the shocks, when i get mine they are real bad and totally incapacitating. i got them recently ,luckily i was home, it i was out or ever wandering around the city, it would be ambulance to hospital. my whole body twitches when i get them , and they are like 3 or 4 seconds apart.
i went for about a year without them. they cam back, and they scare me. the last time i got them , i think i tied my bot tight with not enough cushions, under the tongue, didn't bother me all day, and than wham, just like the joker from batman. i have cauda equina injury , the nerve damaged foot that i wear the afo on, actually had a red spot and it was also localily painful . i couldn't touch it. i have rsd/crps in this foot's , it get a hay wired nerve pain circle between the foot and my point of lumbar injury.