Hi All.

First off let me say I'm glad I found this site. My wife and I feel we were all alone.

Here is my story and where we are at at this time.
In Oct of 99 I got a 950 volt shock. It came in both of my hands, then pulled me into the sign at which time my head hit the back side of the sign which was metal. I was at work at the time.
Being it happend at work this is a workers comp case. The hardest thing we have been dealing with is trying to find a place to help. I did not get apporved to see anyone for 4 months. I was sent for a Neuropsych (spelling off) test. The place giving the test told us they never had anyone who had got hurt from a electrical shock before. Half way throught the test my head started killing me, so they stopped the test and had me come back in two weeks. After the test was done they give my wife and I a copy of the report. The beinging of the report was ok, then it it started saying things that had nothing to do with me, in fact it was then we found another patient's name in my report. Some how this place got someone else report mixed in with my report.
They give me a short rehab time 4 weeks, then at the end of the 4 weeks (1 hour a week) they said they tried all they could they did not know what else to do with me. They thought I should return to work. With what I was doing at home and how my brain was not working the way it was ment to my wife thought I would be dead before the week was out.
The workers com Insurance company sent me for a IME. That Dr said I had nothing wrong and to go back to work.
We then had a Workers Com hearing. The Commissioner looked over the reports and sent to a new place for more testing. This place was better, they at least found many of the problems I have. But they could not help us fixed them or deal with them. Then the Commissioner sent me to another DR to have a Commissioner report done. But the Workers Com Insurance lawyer sent up the appiontment.
When my wife and I walked into the room with the DR. He already holding the First IME report in his hand. In fact he held it read form it the whole time we were in the room. Then I looked at all the reports that lawyer sent him, he had nothing from the last set of test I had that showed my problems. Well I don't have to tell you how his report came out. We got a copy of the report last week. When my wife was going over the report she found a letter from the lawyer to the last place I was tested which found my problems. From how the letter reads it seems the Insur Lawyer was trying to get the DR who found my problems to change his report to something else, he said no I'm sticking with what we found.
So at this time we don't know which way to turn. I have many of the same problems I have read here. Its been just about two years now and nothing has changed. My life has been cut in half. All the things I loved to do before this happen I can't do today. Hell I can't even cook meal for myself with out having some look after me. Anyone got any insight on what I will find in the future? or where I should look for help next? I live in Connecticut. Thanks for any info.

One very important place to start, if you haven't yet, is to join Lightning Strike and Electrical Shock Survivors International, Inc. Our web site www.lightning-strike.org and also e-mail our Pres. and home office at lightning@nternet.net WE ARE THEIR TO HELP. I am a member and 4 years after my accident I had never talked to anyone who had been hit or had an elecrical injury. I had only taked to doctor that all they knew was the saying "We don't know what electrity does to a person". I thought I was going crazy, that I really didn't have pain, I really didn't have one leg that was cold all the time, I really didn't have a foot and toes that wouldn't work, I really didn't have a brain that didn't work the way it use to, Untill I found LSESSI, they (LSESSI) saved my life, not only physically but especially emotionally, I wasn't crazy. I am an electrcal shock survivor also. All of us who are members of LSESSI are there to help, even if you are not a member we will help-e-mail us PLEASE.
I will check back here if you have any trouble finding the e-mail address or web page.
LSESSI is over 1000 members strong and we all are either going thru what you are or have gone thru it.
DON'T GIVE UP-HANG IS THERE
Sorry for my spelling and letter form. I can't remember how to spell words sometime. I hope everyone understand.

Bob, as near as I can tell, this clinic is about the only place there is. Are you a member of LSES?
If you can get a Dr to send this clinic your info, they will look at it and let you know if they can help you. You have too get on it right away, because it takes a long time to get in.
Everyone I have talked to has been helped here.
Don't delay if you are not getting better.

Thanks for the info. I talk with Steve from LSES today. I also joined today. Looks like I still have a long road a head of me. And finding the right DR'S to help is not easy. I think the hardest things are not knowing what our future holds, and almost as bad not remembering a lot of the last two year of my life. And seeing my wife having to deal with all this. We had only been married for 3 months before I got the shock. But dealing with the Workers Com Insur company is been the hardest thing. And trying to get a hold of my lawyer is not always that easy.Thanks again. I will stop in here a lot. If anyone has any ideas on what I should look out for or do next thank would be great. Thank you all again. Bob

Sounds to me like you should change lawyers.
I know that when I was going to give up on doctors and lawyers I attend my first LSESSI conference and they (my new family-LSESSI) made me continue fighting for my SSD payments, especially the lawyer Mr. Simkims who speaks at our conferences. He says there are good lawyer that will fight and help win cases like ours.
I didn't fight WC because when I found a doctor that said "this elecrtical shock did more than we knew" it was past 2 years, the doctors would never admit that was the cause.
I also was told by 2 different lawyers that I couldn't sue my employer even that it was their fault.
I still hate the company manager that caused my accident but it only hurts me by having that much hate in my heart. I keep telling myself that GOD will take care of him.
I'm really glad you joined us at LSESSI and hope to meet you at our next 2002 conference (last week-end in April)

Hi Bob, My name is Belinda and my husband was shocked on Jan-16-01 and has had a awful time, I feel so bad for him. He's only 31 and has all these same symptons everyone else has and we also have had a time finding a DR that knows about electrical shock and what it can do to the body.
And I understand when you said your life has been turned up side down Because ours has too. We have 2 children and they just don't understand what has happened to their dad, he is different and has some bad days, I've cryed a million tears & we are so scared, I think it's very nice of you to worry about what this is doing to your wife
This accident hurts everyone around, and it's hard to see the men we love in pain and suffer everyday. I hope lsessi helps,Steve is a very nice man and understands, I wish your family luck,
tell your wife if she needs to talk email me any time. Thanks Belinda

Boy, I am so glad that I found this board. I just emailed Steve the other day and asked him where I could go to talk to other people. It has been so hard on Robbie and I. Robbie got struck by lightening on June 27, 2001. To be honest I wasn't very understanding at first. I couldn't understand why Robbie was making such a big deal of this. Little did I know. I figure that since he was still alive that he should be ok, boy did I have alot to learn. After a few weeks I realized that he was getting worse instead of better. The WC Doctors seem to be at a loss and when they sent him back to work I decided that I had to do something to help my husband. That is when I found the LS&ESSI,INC. and Steve. What a gift from God. We are now at a point where we have gotten an attorney. Robbie is no way able to return to his work as a Contractor. And in my opinion, with all the problems he is having daily, I can't imagine what kind of work he could go to. This has been a STRAIN on our finances. WC quit paying him a month ago and will not start back up again until we get him to see another approved Dr. Boy it is going to be great having others to correspond with. Please feel free to contact me. God Bless

I too am a survivor i been in the hospital many times with heart ptoblems and they dont know why its happening,everything is a ok , so i tell them of the big eletrocution Not one doctor that i had in allentown , PA LVH would agree that it has anything to do with it they site no proof, but theres no proof why i have lots of medical problems,just good doctor bs. We need better doctors. FEDS(FDA) should require doctors to be certified on this or any other desease to be renewed every so many years by actually touching patients not books, before they can give an opinion. one solution for this mess .

Sound just like me bob
I was in an accedendt with electricity at work too
It has been a hard road and it has been tough.
I keep getting worse and nobody too understand.
I fell alone in this and can't take it anymore.
I fell very depressed. I don';t do much anymore because of the pain. It started in hands now it is all most every where. I am told I have rsd but I think it is some other stuff going on.
I don't know if anyone know of a good dr. send there name too me. I think I am just throw from one place too another. Becuse they have never seen anybody like me.

I have been searching desperatly as I see many others have for some answers. We are going to court July -15 to try for disability. (he was turned down 3 times)My husband was 33yrs old when he received an electric shock of 7200 volts in 12/20/95. It entered into both palms of his hands and out the heels of his feet.If it was not for one of his staff and a neighbor lady who did CPR on him until the paramedics arrived he would not be here today. But as some of you may know there are days when he wishes he would not have survived. At first it looked as if he would be okay. He went back to work, but soon it was evident that something wasn't right. This loving, strong,intelligent husband and father was changing fast. He was in alot of pain and the WC Dr's kept telling him it was all in his head. He would come home and our children would run to there rooms because dad was was becoming very grouchy. I was getting upset with him and we were suddenly fighting all the time. I did't know what to do and certainly did not understand. I suggested going to our primary DR, instead of the quacks WC was sending him to. Our Dr. was honest and said right from the start that who knew nothing of treating an electric shock patient but that he would do some research and see what he could find. Our next visit he was naming off a few things that could be effected. To my relief depression, irratation was listed. Atleast now I understood what was going on with the moods. As the years go on he gets worse. WC forced us into a small settlement and he now can no longer work. In the last 9 years I have watched my husband change into a complete differnt person then I married. He trys so hard to be active but even a simple thing as go to the grocery store for me just wears him out. If he has a good day he will take care of the lawn then be in bed for two days. We have seen many other Drs. Pain Drs, Nerve Dr., Head Drs ETC... He has been on any and every medicine. (who knows what that is doing to his insides) One of the head Drs. said in his report that he was just looking for sympathy from his wife. I am a little fiesty and one of the WC DRs reports has more about me arguing with him then it does about my husbands care.LOL We are struggling finacially as we have been trying to hang on until he can get disibility (if he gets it). We are about to lose our home (talk about stress)I wish I had found this site a long time ago as we are facing the judge in a week.We are fearing the worse but, praying for a positive answer. I found this site because I have been looking for something to give the judge that he could possibly look up to show what happens to someone when they are shocked. Somewhere out there has to have some common sense and relize when a persons body gets fried it is never going to be right. I did not realize there were so many people out there suffering as my husband is. He is currently on Zoloft, Oxycontin and Loracet, Ambien. He has constent pain in his legs and arms. So much at times that he lays in bed in tears. He has constent stomache pains, he cannot sleep, is very emotional, stares off into his own world alot. He is also getting hard of hearing. He feels helpless and useless. We only recently realized that symptoms do get worse as the years go by. That is something the WC Docs kept telling him was impossible. My husband actually did join the LS & ESSI a few years back. He went to a few meetings and would come home depressed even more. He so DESPRATELY wanted a cure. He said after seeing the people in the group who have been this way for so long that he was realizing there was no cure. He just wanted to block that out because he just knew there had to be a cure. I think the mistake we made is I did not go with him to the meetings. After reading this site I see that we are not alone and perhaps I too have been hoping for that cure. I wish he had stuck with it as I see perhaps we would have had more Info and help going into this court date next week. I do not have alot of confidence in our lawyer and know I am going to have to walk in there and fight like have never fought before. Fight for some peace of mind for my husband who I know will have a great relief knowing we will be not living in the streets soon.