An experience I Do not want to get any closer too...

Got this off the net,
within the first week. (See Prognosis, Presentation, Treatment, and Medication.)
Major complications are rare in mild and moderate lightning injuries, although musculoskeletal discomfort and subjective sensations of paresthesias, irritability, and other nonspecific neurologic sequelae may be present, depending on the location and intensity of the strike. In severe lightning injury with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) required in the field, permanent neurologic deficit and hypoxic injury are common.


Complications of being struck by lightning include the following:

• Chronic pain syndromes
• Neuromuscular pain
• Neurocognitive deficits including short-term memory loss, difficulty accessing or processing new information, attention deficit, personality change, distractibility, or loss of ability to multitask
• Isolation or depression
• Sympathetic nervous system dysfunction
• Dizziness
• Sleep disorders
• Symptoms similar to postconcussion syndrome (eg, headaches, nausea, confusion)
• Atypical seizure disorders

Cardiopulmonary complications include the following:

• Transient hypertension
• Electrocardiographic changes
• Myocardial injury
• Congestive heart failure
• Dysrhythmia
• Transient asystole
• Atrial fibrillation
• Ventricular fibrillation
• Frequent premature ventricular contractions
• Respiratory complications
• Apnea
• Hypoxemia

Damage to the central nervous system (CNS) is the second most debilitating group of lightning injuries.[22] Neurologic complications include the following:

• Immediate loss of consciousness
• Amnesia and confusion
• Retrograde amnesia
• Hemiplegia, aphasia
• Coma
• Seizures
• Intraventricular hemorrhage
• Hematomas
• Keraunoparalysis

Vascular complications include the following:

• Vasomotor instability
• Arterial spasm
• Vasoconstriction
• Vasodilatation

Ophthalmic complications include the following:

• Cataracts
• Macular holes
• Corneal lesions
• Hyphema
• Iritis
• Vitreous hemorrhage
• Retinal detachment
• Optic nerve injury

Otologic complications include the following[18] :

• Ruptured tympanic membrane
• Temporary hearing loss

Apart from that that, nothing to worry about , harden up, Bob

I got a bit of a zap a few months ago from a powerpoint plug and it made me very tingly and made my skin feel warm.
It was a weird feeling that is hard to describe.
Really you should have probably gone to the hospital but so should have I.
I would think if you wake up tomorrow and you still feel weird then go first thing.

You get a decent amount of electricity it can get your heart doing a whole new beat. You should get your self checked out. Have had lighting pass by me. That was close enough. My mother was lucky with lightning. She apparently got up from a chair and lightning passed behind here and struck the radio she had been listening too. Had mum been sitting the lightning would have gone through her. It was a valve type radio of that time.
Cheeers Hall

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Originally Posted by Landy Smurf

It was a weird feeling that is hard to describe.

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you just have to experience it for yourself!

..you just have to experience it for yourself!

With all due respect... NO Thanks !:p

dr swmbo says to go to the ED mate.. don't take any chances

geez Dave, hope it hasn't swapped your polarity.:p

Some people get all the luck.

There was I at the height of the storm, up on the colourbond roof with a filled jaffle iron in my hand shouting "I hope you can cook me a hot dinner you buggers, because Energex can't".

Didn't work, so we ended up with Red Rooster instead. Power back on at 3am.

[PS. You should get yourself to a doc. Several million volts and the human body do not make happy bedfellows.]

In the Rural Fire Service you only have to think you got a shock from somewhere and it is straight to hospital...no argument. Jim

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Originally Posted by Didge

Dave, I'd be buying a lottery ticket if I were you, sounds like you're very lucky not to be in a wooden box at this moment. ...
:)

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Why do people use this saying at times like this? Unfortunately you may have just used up all your luck by not getting killed by the lighteneing and now your reserves are partially depleted. Those of us who were fortunate enough not to have been nearly killed by lighteneing yesterday still have our full supply available, so we should be buying lottery tickets.