I know that I have read in the past about sharp pains almost like electricity shooting in your head. I just had this happen about 30 minutes ago and I am still shaking from fear. All of a sudden I had a fast pain in the back of my head right above the neck. It was as if someone shot me. My head feels as if I am being poked with needles. Did I have a stroke? I am very tense at the moment and I am sure this doesnt help matters. I should be starting my period any day. Please, If someone has had these I need to be assured that this maybe from perimenopause. I cant stand the thought of adding one more symptom to my long list of this peri stuff. All I want for christmas is my life back! ho ho ho

Oh my goodness, I've had this before and it scares the bejeezus out of me every time! I've even been woken up from a sound sleep with it! I have always wondered what caused it. But it has always gone away as fast as it came, and no other symptoms afterwards except that I was an anxious mess! I don't think you had a stroke but I'm not a doctor. I would say if it continues and you have more symptoms with it, I would get checked out. If nothing else becomes of it, you probably had the same thing I had...and Lord knows what it is and what causes it!! Sorry to hear you're so upset over this. Let us know! Hugs, Kleeo

That's so weird... I've had these too! I have peri really bad!!! I'm only 33 so this is a strange thing for me and I have suffered! Anxiety the most though.... yuck! I'm so tired of it and I am running out of my xanax which I almost have to have just to get through the morning. Anyway, the electric shock thing... i've had it in my head (left side) and I've had it down the entire left side of my body. I didn't freak out about it though... I'm so busy freaking out about everything else in the world that sometimes if it weren't for my children I wish that the stroke or whatever it is inside of me would just explode... I do worry though. I have read that other women have this and it has helped me. I figured it was hormone related because it always happend when I was supposed to ovulate...everything happens when it's time for all that. It was just when I would ovulate, then it was two weeks and then I got my period and I would go through all that again, now it's all the time and the hotflashes are wild and I am so tired of that yucky feeling. The abnormal, something must be wrong feeling when nothing is wrong so then I think about anything and everything in the world that is wrong and somehow tie that into my life. It's so much fun! Good thing I don't work, or would I be better off? No chance of that right now and I wouldn't even want to since I have my little guys. I just better get used to it, I do think that being on an ADepressant helps though. I have conceded but they aren't working totally yet so the effect is slow. Why is this so hard and terrible?