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Strange brain zap seizures before falling asleep,

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Can someone give any suggestion: I take strange 10 second turns before falling asleep, on for a few days, happens once in a month, sometimes more. I fall asleep easy after them. The turns I can handle, its the strange aura, scary, shaky, frightened, quick flash pictures, nausea, pins and needles, goosebumps i get days before, like brain zaps, they are worse days after. If I visit dentist, doctor, I take these turns 3 days after. Saturday got a major fright walking dog, took 3 turns Sunday night. How do I stop them? These only started when I went cold turkey from Setraline 4 years ago, what is happening? Tried back on, but made turns worse, any medication tried makes it worse. It is frightening, the days after the turn and don't like being on my own, I get quick flash pictures of memory which was lost before 1983.

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I wish I could help. I took Paxil for 15 years and was recently switched to Zoloft. Two months later I started getting head zaps every night. Are you still having them?

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