Electric/Energy surge to brain when trying to fall asleep.

I'm very big on being open to any and all suggestions that are presented to me and anxiety seems to be the best explination so far. Last night I layed in bed and did everything i could to make a story or a movie in my head instead of trying to sleep. While I don't remember when i fell asleep or even if I did, I do remember having less of the surges. Its a terrible thing to experience because now that I am awake and had some sleep I am still anxious because of it and i'm trembling a little because I am nervous.

  When I am awake I don't have any pulse or surge feelings and I feel generally ok, Its very disconcerting to lay down and all of a sudden have these surges that seem to have no trigger. Even when I am not anxious they still happen. 

  Excercise and stress relief seems like it would be the smartest course of action and I plan to try my best to achieve both. I want to have a very long life to raise both of my children in, this is a scary feeling and It only makes itself worse. 

  I am relieved to know I am not alone. I want to be a happy person again, I miss that part of myself. This person that is afraid of daily activites and afraid of going to sleep is not how I want to spend the rest of my life. Together we can all overcome this.

Seizures induced by selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) use are rare and are more likely to be linked to larger doses and severe symptoms (such as those present in serotonin syndrome), but a new case study in the journal Pharmacotherapy described a patient that developed seizures after vilazodone treatment was initiated.

Some case reports have described seizures that are believed to be associated with use of SSRIs, buspirone, or the combination of these agents, but these include confounders like co-ingestions and doses exceeding FDA recommendations. Vilazodone is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor + 5-HT1A receptor partial agonist indicated for the treatment of major depressive disorder.

A 22-year-old female patient with a history of seizure disorder presented to the emergency department after experiencing a seizure prior to her arrival and one three days prior. Before this, her previous seizure had occurred eight years earlier; her recent seizures included preceding leg cramping that turned into generalized tonic-clonic movements. Each of the recent seizures was brief and stopped spontaneously. She had discontinued use of phenytoin for seizure control more than five years prior at the recommendation of her neurologist but her primary care physician was in the process of titrating up her dose of vilazodone for her major depressive disorder. After taking 10mg/day for one week, followed by 20mg/day the following week, she experienced the first seizure in her third week of treatment with 40mg/day. After reviewing the laboratory results and patient vital signs, it was determined that vilazodone had likely lowered the patient's seizure threshold and caused the breakthrough seizures.

Recent research has suggested that selective SSRIs may have both anticonvulsive and proconvulsive properties due to multiple mechanisms via serotonin 5-HT3 receptor activation (anticonvulsive), an increase in -aminobutyric acid release (anticonvulsive), and an increase in nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activity (proconvulsive); the increase in dose of vilazodone could have caused the patient to enter to proconvulsive phase of biphasic mechanism. Clinicians should be aware of the potential for seizures with vilazodone treatment in patients with a history of seizure disorder.

These electric shocks are very different to that. Usually accompanied by a loud, ever increasing ringing in the ears which culminates in a surge in your head, just like a shock.

I experience both types, the entering sleep jolt as well as electric shocks and they are vastly different.

    1. Gender, age, 

     Female, 52 years old

    2. Previous health status

    Excellant health with no known health issues. Get an occasional cold every two to three years that a few cups of herbal tea takes care of. I am retired, have no anxiety or financial worries. I have a good healthy relationship with my husband. We live by ourselves with a cat. I do not over exert myself, but get normal exercise. I am of average weight and eat a pretty good mixed organic and normal diet. i don't drink soda or indulge in junk food and I drink plenty of water. Do not drink or use recreational drugs. Use organic soap, shampoo, deoderant. Use only organic cleaners.

    3. Usual medication

    I take no medications except for a rare occasional 325 mil asparin

    4. Events prior to the start of the 'head rushes'

     My electric shocks happen just before I feel like I am falling asleep, they seem to start from the inside of the top of my head and travel down my body, sometimes so strong it will jolt me, or make a limb jerk, sometimes they are very weak and stay kinda in my head like a small static shock. Sometimes I will get a couple of small ones, and sometimes I will get 1 big one. It seems my brain feels, I wannna say a little sluggish right before it happens, but after they happen I feel almost energized and wide awake.They seem to happen more frequently or stronger if I stay up too late and am super tired before I try to go to sleep. I do not use a cell phone at all, nor do I watch a lot of TV, or watch TV at night, but I do use a laptop before going to bed, which I sit on a table in front of me. I used to play some video games on my computer before going to bed, but stopped several months ago as the shocks seemed to be more frequent and stronger when I played the games.

    5. Any unusual medication or drugs prior to 'Head rush'

     None

    6. Circumstances of first event

    Seems they started to happen last year  after being knocked down to the ground by a dog. I fell kinda hard and twisted my ankle and my neck was sore like I strained a muscle or pinched a nerve in my shoulder and neck area.  I did land  on cement with the palms of my hands hitting the ground hard.

    7. Ongoing pattern

     It seems if I go to bed before I am actually tired and read my nook to fall asleep so I don't anticipate the shock that might be coming,  the shocks seem to not be as frequent,or I don't get them at all. If I go to bed late or try to stay on the computer for a long time( I do ancestry research) they seem to be stronger or more frequent. They did seem to be less severe and less frequent for a few months when I went to the states for 9 weeks and while there I saw my brothers massage therapist  3 times

    8. Medical tests you have had confirmed as negative

     No medical tests done

    9. Medical tests you have had confirmed as positive

    No medical tests done

    10. Any influencing factors that you have spotted either positive or negative

    I think I might have answered this above but positive influencing factors to reduce the shocks  seems to be to go to bed before I feel really tired, and not to overstrain my eyes or shoulder and neck muscles at the computer. Also the message therapist seemed to have helped reduce the strength and frequency of them for a little while.

    11. General thoughts

       I feel like it is like a rubber band that builds tension and then snaps and sends a shock wave through you. I thought maybe at first I had a tumor or something in my head, but I never went crazy with that thought, or going to a doctor. (Glad I didn't waste my money there)and then I tried to research it without much luck, and then tried to analize it by paying attention to the patterns. I see now we all may have a common thread. Do you think it could be nerve related as in pinched nerve, or muscle related? Could it be a nutritional deficiency? Someone mentioned they were B12 deficient. I eat dairy, eggs, fish and meat, all good sources of B12. Did research on B12 deficiency, and some peoples symptoms might match that, but I just experience the shocks, and it makes no mention of electrical like shocks and mine have improved with massage and less neck and eye strain. It obviously is nothing serious, as I am living proof of that, and live a normal stress free life in spite of these shocks.