Electrical sensation

Medications
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Has anyone had a strong electrical feeling in their brain from an AP or SSRI?

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Once, during the beginning of a psychotic break, I had the sensation of ā€˜ā€˜electrical connectionsā€™ā€™ in my head.

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Yes kind of feels like that, or my brain being plugged into an electrical outlet. Real strong right now.

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Yes from quitting them or being off of them even for a couple of days. I take cymbalta itā€™s an SNRI.

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I dealt with this off and on for like 4 years . For some reason it stopped lately

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From quitting them, yes. I did not know what it was at the time and I was psychotic, so I will let your mind run wild with what I thought it was at the time.

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Iā€™m glad it stopped for you. This is driving me a little bit bonkers. It seems to come and go.

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What a tease! You got the cheese dangling on a string right in front of me :grin:

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Yes i got the brain zaps when i quit my ad cold turkey. They lasted about a month not very nice.

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Sounding like I need an Ap dose increase for the remedy. Thought it was the meds themselves doing it.

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I got ā€œbrain zapsā€ when tapering off of Lexapro.

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It is a known withdrawal symptom.

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Thatā€™s a big one to know, thanks @NinjaComet !

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Brain zaps is definitely the right words for it :zap:

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Or your pdoc might be able to split you into two doses. Morning and night. That is what mine did.

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I had brain pain which was like some kind of wrong chemical reaction happening in brain and medication for some reason did not alleviate though tried different cocktails of meds. Now I donā€™t have brain pain and also no medications. But I know the triggers and aware of it to be protective of myself.

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I think the brain zaps are harmless but they suck. I think my zaps got worse the more stressed I was. I can remember not having them on the better days :thinking:

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That makes sense. Everything seems to get worse with stress. Iā€™ll have to pay closer attention to stress under the surface.

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For me, it would occur when I blinked. Not sure why. I was on 60 mg geodon at night. My doc split it into 20 mg in the morning and 40 mg at night. That fixed the issue.

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I wonder if what Iā€™m feeling is different. It feels like a constant electrical current. Changes in intensity and amount of pressure.