Nerve damage from nail gun wound

[TWhite]

I was on scaffold trying to clear a jam. Shooting at the ground….never do this with a Dewalt gun because it will shoot the nail below the firing area. Knocked my hand off the gun like a rocket.

35 years ago i plugged in a skilsaw with a "just Installed" steel blade and a stuck trigger with guard chocked up. Saw ran across my feet nearly severing three toes, saw bounced up and caught me in leg and my back. I was standing in a hex shaped framed shower with almost no way out. Virginia skil saw massacre!

Thats why I always use a Skil worm drive saw. It rarely binds and with the blade on the left it's easy to use the guard. But I know some of you all like them side winders. Lol!

[Andrew R.]

Thats why I always use a worm saw.

A face nailer with a worm saw, hard to believe in VB. Heres what worm saws do to you.

[TWhite]

.....and you know I always resembled that!!
Lol!

[vanderpooch]

Andrew R.

That skilsaw in the shower is too easy to picture. Equal parts horrifying and hilarious!

- Kit

[Overbuilders]

I shot my nose picking finger 23 yrs ago assembling 22.5 degree oven tower cabinet fillers. My helper saw the 18 ga, 1 5/8" pin protruding from both fingertip and finger nail sides of aforementioned finger. Then promptly passed out. No nerve damage whatsoever.

THE END

[JNComplete]

Check out accupucture. It really does work, though you may have some revisited pain, but that's a good thing. Your body has blocked feeling to the area on purpose, to protect you from the pain that was there when you hurt yourself. The accupuncture will properly retrain the bloood and return some if not all feeling to the affected appendage. Fact, not fiction. Ancient Chinese technique equals useful bodily repair.
Some say Gingko Biloba a vitamin helps too.
accupuncture is not that costly either.
JN

Shot myself in the index finger accidentally 3 weeks ago holding the nose back and firing (I know better)on a DeWalt framing nailer and a nail shot out of the bottom right in the side of my finger. Wound is fully healed but entire side of finger feels like someone elses finger. Anyone have experience with returning feeling from puncture wounds.

[tsbrewers]

I have shot myself, and been shot with nail guns more times than I remember (probably in to the teens) with no lingering side effects. I jambed a utility knife in to my hand between the thumb and first finger and that one did some damage. The finger was basically numb for a few years, then tingly, now it is mostly healed but a couple areas around the cut feel funny, like the area is asleep. But no loss of use or anything like that.