for the past year now, ive been getting tingiling sensations

Filmrobe

Christina, it might help to know a little bit more. When you consider the possible reasons for your symptoms, what do "you" think a possible cause(s) might be? For starters, do you have a history of some specific type of problem(s) that may have recently gotten more troublesome? If you can identify possible sources in this way, perhaps some possible explanations would emerge. Bob

Christine1984

okay filmrobe-here is alittle more-back a year ago i stopped a strong sleeping pill med, then after i did this i couldnt sleep for 3 weeks straight, then all the above, on my above post happened!! what could this be?// i also am always cold and shake a lot and then when im really cold and shaking, a few minutes later i burn up hot.

Filmrobe

Christine, I assume you have discussed this onset with your doctor. The intriguing question is whether the medication triggered something or whether the underlying condition for which you took the medication simply reasserted itself. Have you considered relaxation exercises, at least to rule out psychosomatic factors, i.e., anxiety, before concluding that there is "necessarily" an underlying problem of a purely medical nature? Bob

Christine1984

filmrobe, after this problem happened, and i didnt sleep for 3 weeks straight, i went back on that same sleeping pill. and it didnt get rid of these pulsating,tingiling sensations, that last 24-7-usually down my left side-on rare occasions some of the sensations will go down my left leg. i have had this pblm. for 13mnths now. what i think it is, is that when i took this sleeping pill/bipolar med called serqouel it put me to sleep for 3years straight. then i suddenly stop it cold turkey and i dont sleep for 3 weeks, then develop weird zaps in my head, elecrical zaps, and all tightness in every body part,. then it felt like my head was filling up and i was going to have a stroke. i got really pale and faint and dizzy, and my stepmom had to rub my brain stem, when she did this something started dripping down internally from the top of my head then traveling through my body to my feet. it felt like water dripping from the faucet. i still get these things now. when i was put back on this drug, after stopping it, these sensations didnt go away. so the doctor weaned me off seroquel, and put me on other drugs, but these other meds didnt do anything for these sensations, its funny cause all these other meds, have the side effect of sleeping, but i couldnt sleep. the dr just put me on xanax now and i still cant sleep. it seems like no sleeping pills work anymore. since i stopped 1 sleeping pill cold turkey, none of the others work now. oh yeah i also get where i cant even lay on my left side, or my left side will shake, never had this before. weird. no one knows what this is!!! or any of these pblms. i keep taking new psychiatric meds, but they dont do anything for the main problem i suffer with. hope you can help. thanks christine

Filmrobe

If the medications are actually being effective in controlling your bipolar disorder, then I have to assume the gains are important enough to offset what are possibly side-effects of the medication. Yet, it sounds like you are very troubled by the new set of problems you've inherited. I do not get the impression that you are engaged in daily activities designed to build you up and afford you periods of relaxation. If you could get some sleep it might help!