yahhh, get them all over body in strange places likeonly one toe or back og leg almost like sticking fingerin shockit!
then goes away! but in head too like in one spot not a head aches like you said a jolt bing bang gone! any time any where can'y relate it to anything! just wham!

Yes - since high school. Don't know if it's a FM thing. It could be a stress thing. I haven't had one in awhile because I've been avoiding stress with a vengeance. However, I was recently diagnosed with epilepsy.

I also put pressure on my temples but I'm not sure that helps at all. I've only had it last longer than a few seconds once - it lasted for about 10 minutes. I went to a doctor and he treated me like I was nuts.

I get them inside and outside of my body all over. It sorta feels like someone is pinching me randomly. Weird huh.

unduki, I feel like it is related to stress and firbro but not 100% sure. Two days ago it started out of nowhere and kept going periodically throughout the day mostly like you said lasting a couple of seconds but other times slightly longer than that.
and doctors do treat us like were nuts, I think most of them play a psychological game with us making us feel like we are a isolated incidence. Well I could go on and on venting my frustrations about doctors, but I will spare you all.

Where is the headache located? I get something similar that starts at the base of my head/neck and shoots up burning sensation to my temple. My doc told me it was stress induced and exacerbated by FM. She gave me Flexiril to relax the muscles. Apparently the tightened muscles from the increase stress was putting too much pressure on the greater occipital nerve (google it) and causing this. Since starting the meds my heads have decreased in frequency and intensity. I think the sydrome is called occipital neuralgia (inflammation of the occipital nerve)

Monkey toes thanks for the info on the syndrome, i will definitely look that up. For me the pain usually starts in the temple on either side and sometimes the on the top of my head, and it is so sudden and sharp I associate it with a lightning bolt because of the intensity and the coming and going so quickly. These damn things leave me shell shocked.

Yes I have been having those head aches for months now.Never thought to ask if anyone else had those exact same ones.Lightning bolts is exactly how I describe them to other people too.

Yes I get the lightning bolt head pains in my temples. I believe it is from Lyrica (for me), which I stopped taking yesterday. Anyway, I've always been prone to stress and migraine headaches, but the lightning bolt stuff just started recently when I started the Lyrica. I took it for 3 weeks and have stopped and I'm not sure I'm going to start it again. I'll have to wait and see if I continue to get the lightning bolt head pains, or if it was really associated with the Lyrica.

I am glad that I am not the only with this issue but I am not rejoicing that you all have to endure it I just feel better knowing I am not alone.
Does that pain occur constantly or is it every few days, once and a blue moon?

This happens to me, although rarely, thank God. I'm not taking Lyrica, as mentioned here, so that can't be it. Just one more fancy symptom of FMS.

the more people reply the more I feel that it is a symptom of FM too!

Interesting. I get them randomly throughout my body, breathtaking pain but thank god usually doesn't last longer than a minute. I get the stabbed eye ball, knife to the neck base, temples in a vise but the red hot ice pick to the top of the head is new since the Lyrica, usually all this is on my left side except the tmples. I sure don't wish this pain on anyone but it is somethiign to hear I'm not a freak or crazy, that other people feel this crud too! wishing you all pain free hours!

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I just read in another thread about trigeminal neuralgia that affects different parts of the head and face. Based on the electric shock feeling you described, reading up about trigeminal neuralgia, and me knowing how i feel with occiptal neuralgia, I would have to speculate that you probably do have some type of neuralgia. Maybe you can call your doc and talk to them about it?