Having a feeling like electricity is running through your body is a sign that your sensory nerves are damaged.
When the sensory nerves are damaged it can cause a feeling of electric shocks or pins and needles through your body.
You might also feel prickling, pinching, burning or coldness in your hands and feet.
And some people even become sensitive to touch and other people feel numbness.
Sensory nerve damage causes various symptoms because sensory nerves have a broad range of functions.
Damage to large sensory fibers harms your ability to feel vibrations and touch, especially in the hands and feet.
You may feel as if you are wearing gloves and stockings when you are not.
Peripheral nerves can be damaged in several ways: Injury from an accident, a fall or sports, which can stretch, compress, crush or cut nerves.
Medical conditions, such as diabetes, Guillain-Barre syndrome and carpal tunnel syndrome.
Autoimmune diseases including lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and Sjogren's syndrome
Electric shock feelings through the body can also occur when you're really stressed out.
When the body becomes overly stressed, the nervous system, which includes the brain, can act involuntarily and erratically.
This in voluntary and erratic behavior can cause sudden 'shock-like' feelings in any one part, or throughout the body.
Arachnoiditis most commonly affects the nerves connecting to your lower back and legs (lumbar spine).
Arachnoiditis can cause many symptoms, including: Headaches.
Severe shooting pain that can be similar to an electric shock sensation.
Anxiety, with its rush of stress hormones, can have the same effect on your muscles of the neck, shoulders and gut.
Feeling stressed every day can cause the follow complaints: Muscle spasms, stiffness, chest pain.
Trembling or weakness