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Oct 05, 2014, 09:14 PM
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I'm not sure which category to place this in, but for the past month or two, every time I get a fright (which is quite often, because I get frights easily), I get a sudden shock in my brain. It's something new, hasn't happened before, but it's very noticeable to me.
My age range is 18-25. I get a lot of headaches and the occasional migraine, those started when I was 12/13. My grandmother gets headaches and migraines often too, so I don't think they're a problem other than being really annoying. I will be seeing my Doc in a few weeks, but I don't want to sound crazy if I mention this to her. Is there anyone else that has experienced this or who has answers for me? |
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Oct 05, 2014, 09:35 PM
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Did you recently discontinue a medication? I get migraines too, since I was a kid, but these "brain zaps" that felt strangely electric-shocklike (sensations I get with migraines are more magnetic-ish) that I got after discontinuing an SNRI anti-depressant, Cymbalta, were unlike anything I'd ever felt before.
I wasn't even taking it for particularly long, maybe 4 months before I stopped because of other especially unsettling physical effects which made it a bad deal for me, which is what made it so unsettling as it's described as being one of the symptoms of Antidepressant Discontinuation Syndrome. I dread to think what coming off it would have been like for me had I gone on taking it for a much longer period, as my practitioner had wanted me to do. Just a possibility -- your description did really remind me of the way I felt at the time. Good luck!
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Oct 05, 2014, 10:12 PM
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Thank you for responding
 I started a medication a few months ago, for asthma. I've been taking L-Theanine for anxiety, I started taking that a month ago, but I only take it when I start feeling anxious (the days I go into college or some appointment). L-Theanine isn't prescribed, I was looking for something natural and hoping it would help and it has to some degree. I'm trying to avoid medications for anxiety. I'm glad you got off that medication and have found something better! 
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Oct 05, 2014, 10:15 PM
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I used to get things like that when I had spikes of anger or fear, often accompanied by a few seconds of "white out" before I snapped back to normal, but meds have helped. I haven't had one in a while. I was also on Cymbalta, but this preceded the time I took that med.
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