ANA Discussion Forum
Post-Treatment => Post-Treatment => Topic started by: madison on July 28, 2010, 03:33:19 pm
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hi everyone. i am dealing with life as an A.N.er as best i can. i guess it could be worse. i just hate not knowing how i'm going to feel from
day to day. lately i've had these sensations i call brain zaps..almost like a vibration feeling in my entire head. i went online and it said it's common for people
withdrawing from antidepressants. i have never taken any though. i couldnt find any other info. i was wondering if anyone else has experienced this. i apreciate your comments and/or advice. i also hope to find that i am not alone.thank you in advance :)
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Madison,
I stopped taking cymbalta due to the lightning bolt feeling I got all the time, started at my feet and went all the way up to the top of my head. However after surgery I have really bad tinnitus and I get little zaps in my head that I hear in the AN ear. Its usually when I lay in bed at night, when I'm tired and its really quiet in the room. If yours is like this I wouldn't worry about it, just your nerves doing funny things. However if you do not have what I've described I don't think it will hurt to talk to your Dr.
you are not alone :D
Liz
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I have had brain zaps daily since Aug of 2005, I wasn't diagnosed with a facial neuroma until Sept 2006. I am on Lyrica and I still have them, sometimes the intensity will stop me in my tracks and I have to hold on to my head.
Anne Marie
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I had these sensations before and in the couple months after CK. I haven't had any in a few weeks. To me, these feel kinda creepy/yucky. Creepy because you just can't describe this stuff to people who haven't experienced it - they think I'm nuts.
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I get these all the time. Mostly in the morning and at night. I notice it at night in bed ~ when it's quiet. Sometimes a sound or movement will trigger it. I notice it in the morning after my shower. And you are right........people think I"m crazy when I describe it. The doctors all look at me like I'm nuts!! I even feel it sometimes down my arm during the zap. I"m sorry you all experience it but I have to tell you there is a bit of relief seeing that someone else feels what I feel. Though it's not painful so much...it is disturbing...upsetting and I'm still trying to find an explaination.
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I call these silent or ghost tremors. My head feels like it's shaking, but it isn't. I ask other if it is and they don't see it. I touch it with my hand and can't feel it. But, my brain seems to be shaking or shivering inside my head. It's weird. I'm 4 months out and they continue. They seem to be worse when I'm tired or stressed.
Pat
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daily for years-even down the arm. they would stop me in my tracks, too. mostly when i was quiet. now it rarely happens. when it does i am totally reminded of my past health and fear a re-growth.
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I get these also..acompanied by an electric guitar string plucking noise....makes me wake out of a sound sleep.
Check this old post out...or typ in noise in head in the search space.....funny..but not funny....old post in hearing section/What kinds of noises do you hear?