lol I personally don't care what your beliefs are in the matter. I would rather be safe than sorry, the doctor didn't seem to think it was unneccesary for me to be there. I also phoned the health link line.. i had NO plans on going to emerg, just to a walk-in clinic for a quick EKG.. they sent me to emerg.

man oh man... whatever you say or think.. does not matter to me. i did what i did, and im glad im ok. from what the doctor said, i could have easily done some serious damage to myself. so if next time you get a bad shock (not 1 , I got 2) you can do what you want, and like the nurse said.. there are no symptoms most of the time with things like this , if it were something wrong with my heart... hahahaha ANYWAYS thanks for the sympathy . not as if im looking for any anyhow.

Hey scott calm down

Get a GFCI. If you don't feel comfortable installing a GFCI then you can buy a plug-in one on-line.

OCDP,

I spent an evening in emerg a few weeks back when I got some goo from some frags I was working with on my lips. The stuff made its way into my system and I was dizzy, numb, headachy - in short, I kinda poisoned myself. By the time the dr. saw me, after two hours of waiting, my symptoms had subsided. He checked me for stroke and heart problems and sent me home.

Glad you are alright. I'd freak if I got shocked the way you did :eek:

When in doubt, man, go to emerg :exclaim:

Rona also sells a gfi plug adaptor

If I shocked myself and went to our emerg., I'd be dead from the wait.

Walter

Isn't that the TRUTH!!!!!!!! HAAAAAHAAAA!!!!!!!

That statement is just plain wrong; specifically the last sentence. Despite not having any noticable symptoms you can die hours later from heart trouble caused by the current disrupting the electric impulses in your heart. Apparently it can be a fairly minor shock too.

I once cut through 640v line that fed a gas station in Surrey. It blew the trasformer out on the street, traffic lights were down and the force of it threw me back about six feet into a wall. I was really lucky the way the stars were aligned and only had flash burns (fairly bad ones) so the ambulance came, took me to emergency and to make a long story short: I had to argue with the Doctor to let me go. They had me hooked up to heart monitoring devices and explained that it's important to be very careful for the first 24hrs when hit with electrical current. The plastic surgeon came in and confirmed what I'd been trying to say about the burns (flash not exit) and I finally got out.

Having said that most electricians get shocked fairly frequently and probably don't go to the hospital and are no worse for wear but there's no harm in being safe.

GFCI is an absolute MUST in this hobby!!!!

If people only went to the ER when it was a real emergency (as opposed to a cold) the waits wouldn't be as bad. That is why I favour user fees for the emergency room, it would make people think before going there.

As far as electrocution injury, an ER visit is necessary, but a GFCI could have prevented it in the first place.