What are brain zaps on Zoloft?

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asked Jul 28, 2023 in Other- Health by Alonzo654 (1,340 points)
What are brain zaps on Zoloft?

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answered Jul 28, 2023 by MattLeighton (9,130 points)
Brain zaps on Zoloft are electric like sensations that occur in the brain that are perceived to occur in your brain when you are discontinuing the Zoloft or other antidepressant medication.

Brain Zaps are not mini seizures or seizures at all nor are bran zaps a medical emergency.

Brain Zaps are caused by withdrawal from depression medicines, prolonged stress on the body, anxiety, some other medications, lack of sleep or highly anxious behavior.

Brain Zaps are not dangerous and will not harm you, your brain or your body.

Brain zaps are neurological and can also be a sign of vertigo or from withdrawal from certain antidepressant medications or even from a lack of sleep.

Brain zaps are OK and not dangerous to your brain or central nervous system although they can be uncomfortable and disorienting and disrupting.

A brain zap is an electrical zap to the brain inside your head.

The brain zap is caused by disturbances in the electrical signals in your brain and can be caused by lack of sleep, medications and antidepressants.

Brain shakes are sensations that people sometimes feel when they stop taking certain medications, especially antidepressants.

You might also hear them referred to as “brain zaps,” “brain shocks,” “brain flips,” or “brain shivers.”

A brain zap feels like an electrical shock to the brain.

Brain Zaps feel like electrical shocks.

When you're experience a brain zap the brain zaps will feel like something is shocking your head and it can be very annoying but it's usually nothing serious.

Even lack of sleep can cause brain Zaps which I've experienced.

Brain zaps are electrical shock sensations in the brain.

They can happen in a person who is decreasing or stopping their use of certain medications, particularly antidepressants.

Brain zaps are not harmful and will not damage the brain.

However, they can be bothersome, disorienting, and disruptive to sleep.

People who don't take psychotropic or sleep medications also experience brain zaps and head zaps.

Chronic stress, which we call stress-response hyperstimulation, is a common denominator for those who experience head and brain zaps.

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