Ok I need help. I have had these symptoms on and off ever since I hurt my back. I do not get them every night but it sure does seem like they are getting worse. When I go to bed at night and I am just about to sleep I will feel some thing like electrical shock, it starts off real light and it starts in my lower back almost in tail bone then it builds and builds and then it shoots down one or some times both leg’s. It’s like your leg went to sleep and some one hits them. My leg will jump or bend up and there are some times that I only get a couple hours of sleep. What is it and what can I do or take to calm it?

Dear Mylou,
I have nights where I am bouncing off the bed(configuratively speaking)because my legs are moving or my feet and I am constantly twisting them to stop. I have DDD along with scoliosis, or what they call spondilitis. The ortho ordered me elevil in small doses at night to stop it. It does help and it helps you sleep as well. It is also used as an antidepressant.
But I am tired the next day even if I take it 2-3 hours before going to bed. So if I forget and go to bed late I don't take it. I would never get out of bed!! There are meds out there to stop that from happening. I was in two accidents in the 90's and the neuro says he cant help me. What a jerk! Hope this helps, Angels

I have this and it sounds like neuropathy. It depends on what is causing it, to know what to do for it. If in is a disc irrtating a nerve exiting out of your spine, it could take surgery. If it is diabetes, medicine plus diet. I have had both done to me. The surgery would only last a year or two, then it would start again. The meds help, but my feet are numb. You need to see a neurologist and find the problem. Good luck!
Fancylady

fancylady is so right - you want to get a diagnosis and treatment before this thing takes on a life of its own like my central sensitization, admittedly rare, where the original pain source is taken away but the pathways are self re-inforcing.

I have C spine issues and syringomyelial and am possible ms (lucky me, huh, lol). And I get shocks from my hip socket down my leg, in mid back down, in my shoulder blades down my arms, hands and the sides of my head.

I'm a little lightning storm.

The shoulders/arms/hands I would think are from my neck problems. Who knows where the rest of them come from.



Elavil helped me too, but I also found I was way too tired. I was on 50 mgs. Yow.