Electrical shocks throughout my body.

Hello @jimmilyn1982 and welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. I am hoping you were able to get some much needed information at your doctor appointment yesterday. How did it go?

@braedenl2202 I have been having electric shocks through my body a bit over a year and I have told the Drs, including my Neurologist, I wouldn't say they have all together fobbed me off or thought me crazy, but have any definitive answers and that's the funny part, as in funny peculiar, nobody has the answers for me.
You are right when you say that it's painful, they're extremely painful.

Have they did a viral panel on you? Could it be an usual case of shingles. I am dealing with reoccurring bouts of INTERNAL shingles since covid started( my benchmark) I would get electrical shocks bottom of the rib cage and diaphragm. One time down left side of my chest. Left of the sternum. I am dealing with tightness and stiff muscles daily too starting after covid and my first diagnosis of shingles. Good luck. I am sorry to hear how the medical profession is not being professional starting with patience and compassion.

i get electrical shocks in my face from trigeminal neuralgia, scary, throw me off balance, i take gabapentin for this, please see a neurologists, they can order the right tests for you. do you have diabetes? that can cause neuropathic pain too. shingles? covid, no one really seems to know what the long-term affects of having long covid are. they keep changing, the virus, the discoveries. best of luck.

Hello,
I cannot say for sure that I feel the electric shocks throughout my body. But, I also feel something very strange. Kind of shock and I there's a weird sound in my head.! I spoke to my doctor and he just laughed at me.! This feeling remains for almost 3-5 seconds only but happens frequently everyday. I also have foot and toenail fungusand these shocks started since then.! I had tried 2 different doctors and one of them lauhjed and the other one gave pain killers and Panderm + Cream everytime I went. Didn't make any difference to these shocks but the fungus is cured very much now.!

Can you please tell me what your doing for these shocks etc. I'm also feeling almost the same. When I try to sleep, or rest, I feel shocks in my body and feels like my brain is resisting. I hear weird sound in my head too.!

I’ve had 11 brain surgeries the first two were done by a neurosurgeon that messed me up for life. I have an arachnoid cyst on my brain. He cut through all my major nerves from the middle of the back of my skull to the bottom of my neck. They were six hour surgeries and we don’t know what he did because there’s it still there and every neurologist in neurosurgery sense has said if he did what he said he done it wouldn’t be there and you’re not supposed to touch it. Anyway, I have the electrical shocks all over my body. I have severe, fibromyalgia and neuropathy is so much more sense. It’s horrible, but the nerve endings since the shocks all throughout my body I don’t know if this help you, and you don’t have to have surgery to end up with fibromyalgia that’s something else by itself. I have the shot in my fingers all throughout the stomach and I know what you’re going through there. It was six years after the surgeries, and I was crawling to even do anything because the kitten walk palling are passing out from all of it and finally, I found a doctor and he took a couple tests and the next morning he come to me, and he told me about the fibromyalgia and starting me out on the strongest dose, but I was work walking by the next morning. I cannot go without it or my legs go crazy and then my body so you might ask about that. Sending love and prayers.

I get it too, mostly at night - and it lasts most of the night. My problems started way back in the 1980's and until I finally found a good neurosurgeon last year, no doctor would take me seriously either. In fact, most actually claimed I was lying in order to get drugs even though I have a long documented history of repeated head and neck injuries, with a coma after the second. My new doctor determined that I have a herniated disc at C3-4, with pinched nerves on both sides of C5 and C6. I've been on gabapentin for many years and now it has finally stopped working altogether. Even my new doctor hasn't given me anything else, and nothing for pain. Women just don't get treated for pain.

I don't have that BUT after my Shingrix Vaccine I wake up in the middle of the night with burning feet, legs, up to chest, arms go numb. I have to get out of BED, so the pain goes away and IT DOES. This only happens laying down, and I've been to Vascular, Orthopedic, Neurologist and going back to a Neurologist and they say Neuropathy. Sorry, I don't buy that. After the vaccine I was sick for 4 months, could hardly walk, went to therapy and all of a sudden it just disappeared only to appear again 1 1/12 years later. My therapy doctor was the only one who agreed that the Vaccine was the culprit and through my own research from living with this I find that EBV can be what is happening but to prove it is another thing. It's like a virus is in my system, then reactivates when there is stress or something else going on in my life. I cannot stand this pain and I don't get enough sleep as I'm always jumping out of bed to make it go away. All the drs think nothing is wrong but sorry it is happening to me, and I bet if I can get them to do a sleep study they will see exactly what I'm talking about. I'm tired of them thinking it's all in my head, or give me a diagnosis that doesn't even make sense. Sorry for my ranting but enough is enough!

Going on 5 months of electric current sensation. Miserable. I am a 64 year old female and in January I started to feel pins and needles, creepy muscular spasms in my legs, unusual cold/hot sensations in my torso and arms. Physician in February, tested for diabetes and put me on anti-depressants. In March, the sensations became a chronic (24/7) electric current feeling travelling my entire body. At times, I feel pulsing in my rectum and the uncomfortable prickling pain in my urethra/vagina. My throat is sore and voice is raspy. The "current" can be felt in pits of my teeth, my tongue, my entire mouth at times. Along with this, for months - without relief - my shoulders have been in spasm, tensing upwards. I have pains of various parts of body - torso, wrists, hip flexors, jaw - but they are intermittent and random. Began seeing a new physician in April, shared all this with him. He prescribed low dose of gabepentin.
I pleaded with him to advocate for further tests. He ordered MRI of brain and spine, which he found to be normal (didn't indicate MS lesions), but the report noted a "flair" in an area of my brain scan; I am waiting to be evaluated by a neurologist in mid-July, the soonest I could be seen. Since my last appointment with PCP, I have developed a rosacea type flush of redness on my cheeks or nose. For a while, I had a cluster rash - didn't itch - on the top of my left thigh. There are days, I feel like whatever this is, is so virulent, I may not survive. I haven't had a decent night's sleep since February. Anyone have similar symptoms/diagnosis?