If you are changing to a new med just be patient again. Anxiety comes along with these withdrawal symptoms, try to distract yourself, do not dwell on the zaps, it will cause your anxiety and feelings of panic to worsen.If you are continueing a med and have the zaps just by not taking it early enough, you can try taking the med an hour earlier each day, this may help.
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There are days you may feel like they will never go away, some days are worse than others. The zaps will eventually go away if you are completely getting off a med you just need to be patient and do your best to tolerate them until they do, sometimes this may be months, unfortunately. Dr's do not really recognize this and seem to blow you off when you ask them about it or try to explain it. If you are experiencing these "zaps" while taking, getting off of, or changing antidepressants, it is Seritonin Withdrawal Syndrome. Im planning on seeing my doc this week, because these zaps are getting to me right now. Because if we miss a dose or two, we zap, is it our brain that has changed? chemically? our spinal fluid? central nervous system? ITS a very scary thing to think of, and more scary when we have them.
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THEN, we end up with things like zaps, it makes me wonder what exactly happens inside our body, what changes when we take these meds. How many meds lately have been recalled or stopped because of "new" side effects that came later? honestly we take these meds in faith, mostly because we NEED relief either from depression, pain, or whatever reason. Sometimes, like now, it lasts for weeks, can you imagine going for weeks feeling zaps in your body every 15 seconds? yea i guess you can or you wouldnt be here huh? I think the FDA sometimes rushes these meds thru quickly after only months or a year or two of studies. Can you imagine the side effects of all these meds? These docs dont really realize what it feels like because if they havent gone thru it, they can only guess and most of them just ignore it.
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It usually does happen when you change dosage, or withdrawing from a med (as in you havent gotten your refill yet). ive had fibro for almost 25yrs, but the zapping didnt start till i started taking meds for it.