Hello ladies

I have posted on similar things happening to me already but .... it continues and just seems like it will never end. My doctor tried me with sleeping tabs short term (additive so can't take them for long) and these worked and has now started me on Amitriptyline 10 mg (apparently a very small dosage) but the head surges and noises and zaps thorugh my head and in my tongue (actually feels like a short sharp electrical current going through it) are carrying on. All this stuff only happens at the point of going to sleep or being asleep. I can feel absolutely fine all day and have the most horrendous night with all this stuff. I am also finding my body is jerking at night as well.

I am thinking of coming off the Amitriptyline because it is only partially disguising all this and isn't getting rid of it at all.
My question is has anyone experienced these things and they have actually disappeared (I guess I am looking for some hope here). This has continued for me (although not every night) for the last 11 months and started not long after a hysterectomy and a couple of weeks after I came of Cipralex.

If anyone has any information about how to deal with all this please tell me.

Getting Desparate
Popsy

Are the zaps one sided (i.e. only involve one side of your head/face/tongue.) If so, you might want to do some research on Trigeminal Neuralgia or Atypical Trigeminal Neuralgia. If that's what it turned out to be, the meds, most effective are anti-seizures like Neurontin or Tegretol. Google the terms and see if your symptoms fit.

I meant to add, there is another condition, sort of similar, called glossopharyngeal neuralgia, which would include zaps to your tongue, but not to your face or head, possibly to your neck. You might want to look that up too, although same meds are used for both types of neuralgia.

Hi Dawn

Thank you for your reply. I did look these conditions up but I do not have any real pain with it other than the mental shock that it causes when it is persistant.

Popsy