Posted by springchick19 on June 18, 2008, at 12:08:33
In reply to Re: What are brain zaps and brain shivers?, posted by DizzyNikki2 on August 13, 2005, at 16:46:42
I like to describe these brain zaps (or I've heard brain shivers) as like that flash that you see when you turn off the television. Maybe the newer televisions don't do that...but all of the tvs that I grew up with did and I'm only 28! It is like a circular flash in your head that either collapses in or spreads out. Like- ZING! I just yanked the electric cord out of the wall!
It makes sense that it is an electric disturbance in the brain- it certainly feels that way.
I have them all the time now, even when I take my effexor on time and I have never come across a doctor who's heard of this. I know it is not supposed to be dangerous, but I cannot see when it happens to me. It's like a sneeze- you lose vision for just a second as it happens. As I frequently have 5 or 6 in a row, I worry that it will happen while I'm driving or something and that I won't be able to react to what is happening around me!
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