Do you get Head zaps?

Question

Does anyone else get head zaps, they're like an electric shock that goes through your head.
I get mine at the point I am falling asleep at night.
Sometimes my head can jump off the pillow & sometimes they are accompaneyd by a loud crashing sound inside my head.
My Doctor does not seem concerned, all this started about a year ago & seems to be worse when I'm stressed.

I have never been on any medication.

Answer 1

I used to get this a lot, along with large bangs and fireworks. I suffer from it a lot less now I've cut down my caffeine intake by a huge amount. That includes tea as well as coffee, cola, sprite, any fizzy drinks etc. I limit myself now to 1 cup of coffee and maybe 2 cups of tea and I'm managing quite well. Still get occasional twitchy leg syndrome though, but it could take years for that to stop. I'm currently researching which herbal remedies i can use to help myself. Basically, you may have an intolerance to caffeine, even if you don't drink much of it. Go and ask your GP about caffeine intolerance. see the links below and do your own research, I might be wrong, it might be nothing to do with your problem!

heres a quote from the second link:
gave up coffee very early on, because it gave me terrible headaches, but was drinking a lot of tea, which I know now has as much as two thirds of the caffeine of coffee. When the specialist I saw suggested that the constant panic attacks I was getting might be due to caffeine intolerance, I gave up tea and within forty eight hours the attacks halted. I have never drunk any tea or coffee since that day. There may well be other things which affect you. In my own case wheat and dairy produce also left me with a fuzzy head. Basically I suppose I follow the diet that someone needs to follow if they have arthritis, so hopefully I should prevent that in later years.

so, its a complicated thing, but probably something to do with your diet, and that means what you drink as well as eat.
Good luck!

Answer 2

Have you had a local anaesthetic for dental treatment recently? Many years ago I had a filling which had the usual local anaesthetic, and for a couple of weeks afterwards I was getting what felt like a shooting electric current from the top of my head to the tooth with the new filling. It wasn't a strong current but more like a sudden tingle.

Answer 3

Do you also get the flash of light? And terrible night paralysis? I also sometimes get one full body convulsion where my body arches backwards. Your doctor is not concerned because he has never heard of it before. I can't give you an explanation here but you need to go for some cellular healing. You are not alone - this happens to many people.

Answer 4

I think I get the same thing, it's very scary, almost as if you had stuck your finger on the electric fire. I find it difficult to go back to sleep in case it happens again. I usually have to sit up and have a ciggie or watch a wee bit of T.V. until I am wide awake, then start all over again to go to sleep.

Answer 5

I do too, especially when i am just about to drop off to sleep as well, and it seems to happen when i am absolutlely knackered,
takes me a few more minutes to drop off properly after that but i only ever get the one per night, at least two or three times a week. I dont let them bother me though.

Answer 6

That's a side effect of discontinuing certain antidepressants. If you've stopped taken meds, this could be why.

Answer 7

Yes, but I never gave them a name. Ha. Your doctor is right, it is stress.

Answer 8

wow... ive had that before i didnt know what to call them though!!lol sometimes if ive been up partying too late or stressed out i get them they are trippy!!!

Answer 9

no