Posted: 1/19/2016 12:23:47 PM EDT
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The past few days have been a nightmare for me. Low temperatures and keeping the heat rolling have resulted in extremely low humidity. Now everything I touch shocks me. For some reason it affects me way worse than my wife and daughters. Whether I'm wearing boots, shoes, just socks, or even barefoot does not matter. If I touch anything even remotely conductive, it knocks my dick in the dirt.
I'm not talking a little jolt. I'm talking about a visible half inch arc flash with loud pop and pain. My poor GSD has gotten popped on the nose so many times he is afraid to get near me, and when he does, the way he cowers would make you think I had been beating him with a stick. Last night my wife went to kiss me goodnight and we both got numb lips. I have to be careful not to get my fingers near the cover screws when flipping a light switch. Sunday night I wanted fish for supper, so I placed a ziploc bag of crappie fillets in the kitchen sink with cool water to thaw faster. When I went to get it out, I got zapped off the water. Back up near the wood stove and it pops me through my jeans and tightie-whities. Get out of my truck and get the shit knocked out of me when I close the door. Last night I was going to put some wood in the stove. I thought I would avoid getting shocked by holding my flashlight tightly in my hand and touching it to the stove first. Yeah, right. It felt like a jolt of 120v ran up my arm when the light touched it. I need to put gas in my truck today, but I'm halfway scared I will touch the tank and pumps off doing it. |
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The past few days have been a nightmare for me. Low temperatures and keeping the heat rolling have resulted in extremely low humidity. Now everything I touch shocks me. For some reason it affects me way worse than my wife and daughters. Whether I'm wearing boots, shoes, just socks, or even barefoot does not matter. If I touch anything even remotely conductive, it knocks my dick in the dirt. I'm not talking a little jolt. I'm talking about a visible half inch arc flash with loud pop and pain. My poor GSD has gotten popped on the nose so many times he is afraid to get near me, and when he does, the way he cowers would make you think I had been beating him with a stick. Last night my wife went to kiss me goodnight and we both got numb lips. I have to be careful not to get my fingers near the cover screws when flipping a light switch. Sunday night I wanted fish for supper, so I placed a ziploc bag of crappie fillets in the kitchen sink with cool water to thaw faster. When I went to get it out, I got zapped off the water. Back up near the wood stove and it pops me through my jeans and tightie-whities. Get out of my truck and get the shit knocked out of me when I close the door. Last night I was going to put some wood in the stove. I thought I would avoid getting shocked by holding my flashlight tightly in my hand and touching it to the stove first. Yeah, right. It felt like a jolt of 120v ran up my arm when the light touched it. I need to put gas in my truck today, but I'm halfway scared I will touch the tank and pumps off doing it. You need a whole house humidifier. |
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Quoted: You need a whole house humidifier. Quoted: Quoted: The past few days have been a nightmare for me. Low temperatures and keeping the heat rolling have resulted in extremely low humidity. Now everything I touch shocks me. For some reason it affects me way worse than my wife and daughters. Whether I'm wearing boots, shoes, just socks, or even barefoot does not matter. If I touch anything even remotely conductive, it knocks my dick in the dirt. I'm not talking a little jolt. I'm talking about a visible half inch arc flash with loud pop and pain. My poor GSD has gotten popped on the nose so many times he is afraid to get near me, and when he does, the way he cowers would make you think I had been beating him with a stick. Last night my wife went to kiss me goodnight and we both got numb lips. I have to be careful not to get my fingers near the cover screws when flipping a light switch. Sunday night I wanted fish for supper, so I placed a ziploc bag of crappie fillets in the kitchen sink with cool water to thaw faster. When I went to get it out, I got zapped off the water. Back up near the wood stove and it pops me through my jeans and tightie-whities. Get out of my truck and get the shit knocked out of me when I close the door. Last night I was going to put some wood in the stove. I thought I would avoid getting shocked by holding my flashlight tightly in my hand and touching it to the stove first. Yeah, right. It felt like a jolt of 120v ran up my arm when the light touched it. I need to put gas in my truck today, but I'm halfway scared I will touch the tank and pumps off doing it. You need a whole house humidifier. |
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The past few days have been a nightmare for me. Low temperatures and keeping the heat rolling have resulted in extremely low humidity. Now everything I touch shocks me. For some reason it affects me way worse than my wife and daughters. Whether I'm wearing boots, shoes, just socks, or even barefoot does not matter. If I touch anything even remotely conductive, it knocks my dick in the dirt. I'm not talking a little jolt. I'm talking about a visible half inch arc flash with loud pop and pain. My poor GSD has gotten popped on the nose so many times he is afraid to get near me, and when he does, the way he cowers would make you think I had been beating him with a stick. Last night my wife went to kiss me goodnight and we both got numb lips. I have to be careful not to get my fingers near the cover screws when flipping a light switch. Sunday night I wanted fish for supper, so I placed a ziploc bag of crappie fillets in the kitchen sink with cool water to thaw faster. When I went to get it out, I got zapped off the water. Back up near the wood stove and it pops me through my jeans and tightie-whities. Get out of my truck and get the shit knocked out of me when I close the door. Last night I was going to put some wood in the stove. I thought I would avoid getting shocked by holding my flashlight tightly in my hand and touching it to the stove first. Yeah, right. It felt like a jolt of 120v ran up my arm when the light touched it. I need to put gas in my truck today, but I'm halfway scared I will touch the tank and pumps off doing it. You need a whole house humidifier. It gets me outside too. My truck door, the chicken coop door, mailbox. |
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Static is the thing I hate the most about winter. Make sure you ground yourself before filling up your truck. Just touch the side panel or get your usual jolt when getting out. I make it a point to touch the frame with my forearm. It hurts a bit less than fingers. |
I'm thinking about "keastering" a drag chain to keep myself at a neutral potential difference. 
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The past few days have been a nightmare for me. Low temperatures and keeping the heat rolling have resulted in extremely low humidity. Now everything I touch shocks me. For some reason it affects me way worse than my wife and daughters. Whether I'm wearing boots, shoes, just socks, or even barefoot does not matter. If I touch anything even remotely conductive, it knocks my dick in the dirt. I'm not talking a little jolt. I'm talking about a visible half inch arc flash with loud pop and pain. My poor GSD has gotten popped on the nose so many times he is afraid to get near me, and when he does, the way he cowers would make you think I had been beating him with a stick. Last night my wife went to kiss me goodnight and we both got numb lips. I have to be careful not to get my fingers near the cover screws when flipping a light switch. Sunday night I wanted fish for supper, so I placed a ziploc bag of crappie fillets in the kitchen sink with cool water to thaw faster. When I went to get it out, I got zapped off the water. Back up near the wood stove and it pops me through my jeans and tightie-whities. Get out of my truck and get the shit knocked out of me when I close the door. Last night I was going to put some wood in the stove. I thought I would avoid getting shocked by holding my flashlight tightly in my hand and touching it to the stove first. Yeah, right. It felt like a jolt of 120v ran up my arm when the light touched it. I need to put gas in my truck today, but I'm halfway scared I will touch the tank and pumps off doing it. You need a whole house humidifier. It gets me outside too. My truck door, the chicken coop door, mailbox. |
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Finger tips have a ton of nerves. Discharge with a less sensitive part of your body.
My mom has much the same trouble as you. She came up with this little keychain anti-static doohicky, and claims it works pretty well (I don't know how it works, probably capacitors and diodes and shit.) Might be an option for you. |
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Quoted: Big pot of water on the wood stove will fix this, just keep it filled. |
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Quoted: This. You have a humidity problem. Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: The past few days have been a nightmare for me. Low temperatures and keeping the heat rolling have resulted in extremely low humidity. Now everything I touch shocks me. For some reason it affects me way worse than my wife and daughters. Whether I'm wearing boots, shoes, just socks, or even barefoot does not matter. If I touch anything even remotely conductive, it knocks my dick in the dirt. I'm not talking a little jolt. I'm talking about a visible half inch arc flash with loud pop and pain. My poor GSD has gotten popped on the nose so many times he is afraid to get near me, and when he does, the way he cowers would make you think I had been beating him with a stick. Last night my wife went to kiss me goodnight and we both got numb lips. I have to be careful not to get my fingers near the cover screws when flipping a light switch. Sunday night I wanted fish for supper, so I placed a ziploc bag of crappie fillets in the kitchen sink with cool water to thaw faster. When I went to get it out, I got zapped off the water. Back up near the wood stove and it pops me through my jeans and tightie-whities. Get out of my truck and get the shit knocked out of me when I close the door. Last night I was going to put some wood in the stove. I thought I would avoid getting shocked by holding my flashlight tightly in my hand and touching it to the stove first. Yeah, right. It felt like a jolt of 120v ran up my arm when the light touched it. I need to put gas in my truck today, but I'm halfway scared I will touch the tank and pumps off doing it. You need a whole house humidifier. |
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Quoted: This is what I have been doing. It helps but can't keep up with they dry air from the fire. I just started looking in to whole house humidifiers. They throw up like 7gal/hour into the air. I'm not getting anywhere close to that with a pot. I might go through a gallon every 5-6 hours. Quoted: Quoted: Big pot of water on the wood stove will fix this, just keep it filled. i picked up this unit at Walmart a few weeks back. |
| Simple partial solution - when getting out of your car, hold your keys and touch that to the car. The wider area of discharge through your body (more of your hand) keeps the pain away, and the discharge point will be at the tip of your key (or bottle opener in my case). |
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No, it does not. I keep a kettle of water on the wood stove all the time and make sure it does not go dry. Quoted:
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Big pot of water on the wood stove will fix this, just keep it filled. No, it does not. I keep a kettle of water on the wood stove all the time and make sure it does not go dry. then its time for a serious humidifier. Get a couple of the older type like in the link below that are warm steam vaporizer and add a couple tablespoons of salt to each batch of water, this will ruin newer type humidifiers. they will steam, bubble and hiss but the salty steam will make things better in your house, will also help your sinuses. http://www.walmart.com/ip/Vicks-Warm-Steam-Vaporizer-V150SG2UPC/15423529 |
Here I am, at work, trying to read y our post, but I can't get two sentences in without losing it and laughing out loud. But not laughing at you- laughing with you. I can relate. My co-worker is looking at me like, do you mind? He's on the phone trying to conduct a business conversation and I'm siting over here helplessly snickering out loud.  
Thanks for the chuckle! Hope you get some relief soon. Your post reminded me of a favorite still from the Simpsons...A newspaper photo of Abe Simpson shaking his fist at the sky with the caption "Old Man Yells At Cloud." Well, Abe had his reasons even if no one understood him. But I understand you.
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The past few days have been a nightmare for me. Low temperatures and keeping the heat rolling have resulted in extremely low humidity. Now everything I touch shocks me. For some reason it affects me way worse than my wife and daughters. Whether I'm wearing boots, shoes, just socks, or even barefoot does not matter. If I touch anything even remotely conductive, it knocks my dick in the dirt. I'm not talking a little jolt. I'm talking about a visible half inch arc flash with loud pop and pain. My poor GSD has gotten popped on the nose so many times he is afraid to get near me, and when he does, the way he cowers would make you think I had been beating him with a stick. Last night my wife went to kiss me goodnight and we both got numb lips. I have to be careful not to get my fingers near the cover screws when flipping a light switch. Sunday night I wanted fish for supper, so I placed a ziploc bag of crappie fillets in the kitchen sink with cool water to thaw faster. When I went to get it out, I got zapped off the water. Back up near the wood stove and it pops me through my jeans and tightie-whities. Get out of my truck and get the shit knocked out of me when I close the door. Last night I was going to put some wood in the stove. I thought I would avoid getting shocked by holding my flashlight tightly in my hand and touching it to the stove first. Yeah, right. It felt like a jolt of 120v ran up my arm when the light touched it. I need to put gas in my truck today, but I'm halfway scared I will touch the tank and pumps off doing it. You need a whole house humidifier. Fucking this...... |
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Op, sorry to hear you're getting zapped so frequently. I don't like static electricity because getting shocked hurts. It happened to me a lot getting out of my car so I changed the way I get out now. I open my door and make sure I either grab the top of the door frame or the lower door sill until my foot hits the ground. Not just the toe of my shoe or foot, but my whole foot. I have found that this works well for me and I only get shocked when I forget to ground myself before getting out of the car.
When I'm around the house and feel that I've got a static charge building up or built up, I grab a carabiner I've got my car keys on and use that to ground against something metal so I don't get zapped. It's one that medium sized and I keep my fingers away from the end where it'll touch the metal. Switching to hard wood floors in most of my house also worked but I didn't do that for static electricity elimination. |
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I knock whatever will shock me with the back of my hand/knuckles. Hop out of the car, tap the door with my knuckles. Door knob? Knuckle tap. Bed frame? Knuckle tap. You'll look OCD to everyone else, but who cares. This works for me. The only one I do habitually is grabbing on to the metal of the door of a vehicle when getting out. I can usually sense the charge building on me, hairs raise or something, and then I'll ground myself with a less sensitive patch of skin. Or give my wife a nice zap, depending on what mood she's in.
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try this
. spray it all over yourself. I use it liberally when working with pyro . http://www.amazon.com/ACL-Staticide-Regular-Topical-Anti-Stat/dp/B00BR55D5E |