Struck by lightning: What we can learn about pain management from lightning strike survivors

But talking more specifically about what it's like to be struck by lightning, some report it's an excruciating pain.

Others report an adrenaline spike, but five times stronger.

I can't imagine.

I remember the first time I took a Red Bull.

And the amount of adrenaline, I felt like I could run through a building.

So I wonder if it was that type of adrenaline or the first time you did cocaine.

I've never done cocaine, but I would imagine that very first time is very intense and then you're off to chasing a dragon, right? Other people report an incredible pulsing.

Some say it's a burning sensation from head to toe.

I would imagine it's like when you hit the funny bone, and if you had that from head to toe, just having it in the elbow is crazy, or like...

Was it brain freeze? Can you imagine having that throughout your whole body? But even more intense? I'm just trying to find a correlation to what lightning strikes would feel like based off of what they shared.

Now, obviously, the severity of the pain and the damage depends on was it a direct hit? Usually those people end up dead.

Or an indirect hit, like a side flash where it hits a tree and then it kind of comes off of a tree.

And in those cases, even that can send you flying a number of feet and you end up with broken bones, scars, bruises.

And now the sad thing is MRIs can't always detect if you've been hit by light.

There's no way to prove that you have been hit by lightning.

So sometimes the doctors think you're lying or you're hallucinating or you're delusional or it's all in your head, that kind of thing.

And in fairness, there are people who report being struck by lightning 10 to 20 times, which, okay, now I got to check your medications on that one.

But if you have been struck by lightning, it can lead to forgetfulness, sleep issues, sexual dysfunction, headaches, intense pressure, like your eyeballs are about to pop out, which that would be gruesome.

Because I mean, a headache by itself is painful, but I can't imagine the feeling of like your eyeballs are about to pop out.

It reminds me of like those mafia movies Where they'd be like, I'll put your head in a vice.

And then you just, until your eyeballs pop out.

And I'm like, that's wild.

They also become hypersensitive to noise, which I have.

I have tinnitus in my ears.

And some of them lose their hearing.