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Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: New York
Posts: 53
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: New York
Posts: 53
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Low voltage electrical shock.
I've been off the site for a while now fully engrossed in recovery, treatments, finding work, and trying to get my life back together. Tonight, however, I incurred an electrical shock while trying to plug in a lamp to an extension cord. I touched the metal prong while it was half plugged in with sweaty fingers on just one hand. I am not sure if the lamp was left in the "on" position or not. Is that why I was shocked? I felt the shock, dropped the chord, then had immediate jitters and racing heart, although this could just be my good old friend, panic. Naturally my first thought and greatest fear is that this will have repercussions for my brain. I don't like the idea of much outside electricity entering my nervous system. My arms and muscles do also feel strange, but the finger where I was shocked is not burnt.
Does anyone have info on this? A website such as WebMD is unclear as to whether (low voltage?) shocks require medical attention. It also didn't clarify what kind of shocks something like an extension chords produces. Low, or high? On their site the symptoms appear to vary greatly, and I'm not sure if these would supersede my 'normal' PCS symptoms. I can't get a doctor on the phone until tomorrow, but is it something I should take seriously? As in hospital?
Thanks.
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-First TBI in 2011. Iron cellar door closed on my head. Undiagnosed PCS, and was unaware of anything regarding TBI at the time.
-2nd TBI in August, 2014. Fell skateboarding and hit head on pavement.
-3rd TBI in November, 2014. Hit in the head at work with a dish rack with full strength by a large employee. CT scan normal. Diagnosed mTBI, PCS, PTSD, migraine with aura, and chronic depression. Symptoms have included: quite severe visual disorders, hearing loss in left ear, lethargy, brain fog, dizziness, disordered sleep, hallucinations and "exploding head syndrome", neck and shoulder pain, migraines, headaches, loss of emotions, all forms of cognitive deficiency, loss of reading/verbal ability, sound/light sensitivity, anxiety, panic attacks. Most notably are a general loss of identity and the disillusionment with the world accompanying trauma. But on the other hand, a new and heightened awareness of the nature of self, others, and of suffering itself.
-As of December, 2015, am still experiencing visual disturbances, memory and speech problems, balance, sensitivity and overstimulation issues, along with the trickier to pinpoint cognitive changes, but feel that I am no longer clawing my way through a waking hell, so feel much better about being alive. Hallucinations and panic attacks are gone (thank God!), getting much better at reading and writing, and remembering/planning my daily tasks. Hopeful for further recovery, but thankful to be at least at 50%.
Last edited by Beelzebore92; 08-04-2016 at 11:47 PM.
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