About those wee electric shocks you get when you touch things/people?

[DizzyPhillips]

I know this sounds absolutely batshit. I know.

But i seem to get these constantly and it’s actually getting me down! I feel like every time I touch anything I get a shock! It doesn’t seem to matter what I’m wearing or where I am.

It’s worst at work. Every time I touch the printer for example. It just happens all the time.

I don’t know why it’s getting to me so much it’s such a minor thing.

Me too. It's very annoying and sometimes actually quite shocking (no pun intended, ha.) DD2 is similarly affected, but DH asserts he has never had one and can't imagine it at all.

It happens so much to me and is so painful that it makes me want to cry. If I shut the car door using the window, the very next item I touch gives me a shock, so it only delays it. You can get keyrings on Amazon/eBay that discharge it and that worked ok, until I lost it!

If it doesn't usually happen so much could you be pregnant? I got loads more static shocks than normal when I was pregnant. Could have been polyester maternity clothes, though.

I always got them with a certain pair of shoes (sole material) and when I worked in a big shop anybody with a pushchair that then touched the metal shelving was liable to get zapped!

@Excited101, I was exactly the same in Vegas, must be the kind of carpets they have or something.

No definitely not pregnant unless it’s some kind of immaculate conception. But that’s a whole other thread...

I even get this when I touch people sometimes too

I get it too. With one of my cars I used to touch the ground with my hand before I shut the door. That helped. In 2 offices I've worked in it's happened a lot. Touching the wood of the door with my palm helped.
A colleague and I once zapped each other which was spectacular and painful.
Certain shops do it to me too. The bannister in one and the escalator in another.

If I go down escalotors that have a brass rail at the landing (like our local Debenhams )
I get static shocks from their lifts too, when I was using a pram I had to hover till someone else pressed the call button.

Even worse now my DC are teens they touch whatever causes it then touch me to give me a shock. Then they cackle like witches (little buggers)

My child's wheelchair gives me large static shocks on certain shop surfaces. M and S is the worst. I cannot even touch the lift button without putting my jumper over my hand first . I think it is the plasticky wheels on the plastic shop floor. It is quite painful the.

This has recently started happening to me when I get in and out of the car! I haven't changed anything so it's just randomly started happening.

Me too! Nothing has changed, no new clothing or shoes or anything. Weird!

At work I used to touch every filing cabinet I walked past to dispel the static in small amounts.

Eurghhhhhhhh

I have a weird phobia about electricity and static shocks

Not that this contributes to any of the discussion 😂 as you were

I only press a lift button with my sleeve over my hand.

Every single time do I get a shock of those, and trolleys in supermarkets!

I changed supermarkets due to this.

I used to get electric shocks when pushing the children's buggy, particularly in Primark. Now, I try to limit man made fibres in my clothes.

I get this in a lot of shops and it does my head in. I don't wear a lot of synthetic fibres when shopping as most of my everyday clothes are cotton and my shoes/boots leather. I find M&S particularly bad for it too flapjackfairy.

I get them all the time - mostly when touching escalators or calling a lift. I think it's my pram that's causing it.

It’s all the electricity in Vegas that does it apparently! I guess it could be the carpets too Neutral

I get them from the dc's trampoline and when wearing the a particular pair of shoes while shopping in Tesco. 🤷‍♀️

Supermarket trollies in my case.

Yep , I get it every time I touch my work locker . So now I earth it with my bum instead , because my fingers bloody hurt too much .

I hate this too! One of the worst times was touching a lift button and I saw that static spark, it was blue... bloody hurt too!

I hold my keys now as DH said that anything metal dispersed the charge.

It works!

My youngest daughter & I share a static shock every time we touch each other. Really annoying!

I get this all the time. I’m complete with static hair at the moment too.

I managed to ‘turn off’ one of the monitors at work with a finger to the screen twice last week.

I get this too every time I touch the car - and I too now use my sleeve to close the door. I used to get it a lot when I pushed my buggy in shops. It's horrible!
I am going to try holding keys when I close the car door now and see if that works.