The Brain jolt – “Electrical lightning bolts”

 

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A common experience of many survivors that may arise immediately or years after their initial event are Brain Jolts.  (also sometimes called brain shivers, brain shocks, head shocks, and electrical shocks). They tend to be apparently uncaused sensations of electricity briefly passing through the brain. Some describe them as "a sudden jolt or buzz in the brain." Others report that they feel like "short bursts of white light or lightning mixed with dizziness." Sometimes brain zaps are accompanied by vertigo, tinnitus, throat tension, and nausea. Others will report that the attack is like a powerful discharge in the center of their brain that travels down through their body, causing the arms and legs to convulse, and the person to lose balance and possibly fall.  It has been described by one observing EMT as “fully resembling a Petit Mal Seizure”.

Even though you can print pages of anecdotal evidence from Facebook of people who describe these symptoms, many neurologists agree that there are too few actual clinical studies and that the actual mechanisms are unknown. Some neurologists will suggest that you are unique, or that they never heard of such symptoms accompanying brain injury or stroke.  Within the entire medical community, some won’t entirely believe you, or understand your description. Others will, fortunately, prescribe anti-epileptic medications, which seems to reduce the quantity and violence of these events to near 0.

 

 

 

Sudden Super-Heated Nerve zones

Related closely to the electricity issues of Brain Jolts, this occurs when the survivor’s internal control of their electrical systems have been damaged by the injury to the brain.  The nervous system evidently now stores up electrical energy as heat at certain points. There have been NO anecdotal notes on this leading to any form of human combustion. Usually the patient just needs a quick temporary application of cold compress.

 

Knots and Bumps of Nerves bundles not found on MRI

I have two zones of these.  One that is rather permanent in my center back.  Sometimes, it is large and hard, other times it is soft and movable.  Each time, when the lump has been at it worst, I have it x-rayed and MRI’d several times, and each time the results are negative.

It cannot be messaged out, or reduced by medications.  It is a nerve bundle that is (anecdotally) a result of brain injury. 

This is a rarer symptom, I have only found a few other a few others on Facebook who identify with this symptom, and inability to cure it.

HICCUPS

Relentless, without any triggers that you can identify, you may come to realize how these stroke and brain injury hiccups are far more powerful than a regular hiccup, and do not respond at all to common techniques, such as water, sudden fright, etc.  There is a standby medication, Baclofen, that I would recommend that you ask ask your neurologist about if you encounter these hiccups frequently or prolonged.

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