Fainting

[Babiole]

Has anyone here fainted?

Yesterday it happened to me. I fainted when I was in the kitchen. I don't know why as of yet, but I had been feeling a bit dizzy. I woke up not too much later with Dad sitting by me. It felt so weird.

[ninja789]

yeah once in in the metal work rooms in school and the furnace made the room too hot
two of us fainted

[sqishy]

I almost did during a martial art class 3 or 4 years ago, everything went blurry and I felt like I was drifting from everything, was standing during this, nobody noticed but few were in the room at the time.

[Cloud_Strife]

Some of the most common causes for fainting are dehydration, low blood sugar and low blood pressure. Losing consciousness like that is called 'syncope'.

Another commonly encountered scenario is something called 'vasovagal syncope' - it's where certain triggers lead to the loss of consciousness, such as: fear, pain, fatigue, hunger, etc.

Unless you are a small person, with known low blood pressure, or faced those particular triggers, it really should be looked into. You should attend your physician and they will probably look into possible causes, like abnormal heart rhythm, or even things like seizures as the underlying cause. Losing consciousness without an obvious cause should always be treated as a serious matter until can otherwise be explained for.

Hope that helps - keep us posted!

You can read more about vasovagal syncope here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasovagal_response

[Etcetera]

Umm yeah, there's seizures like that too so you might wanna get that looked at. I have drop attack seizures that are very similar to that.

[DiamondsGirl]

You need to figure out what caused you to faint. I never got to the point of fainting because somebody always spotted the symptoms and dragged me away from the crowd by then, but my issue is low blood sugar. I carry around a packet of sugar now. Especially when I know I'm gonna be standing still for a long time under direct sunlight.

[Vocabulous]

I suffer from dangerously low blood pressure, so I pass out on the daily. Usually when I get up in the morning if I stand up to fast. It's not a full on faint though, I can usually stay upright, but I go blind and get bad tremors in my hands. On occasion, I have also lost my hearing during and for a bit after the blackout

[Meganium]

I've borderline fainted countless times while standing up. However, I've never passed out cold before.

[JamesSuperBoy]

Has anyone here fainted?

Yesterday it happened to me. I fainted when I was in the kitchen. I don't know why as of yet, but I had been feeling a bit dizzy. I woke up not too much later with Dad sitting by me. It felt so weird.


Hope you feel better now

[Fiction]

Some of the most common causes for fainting are dehydration, low blood sugar and low blood pressure. Losing consciousness like that is called 'syncope'.

Another commonly encountered scenario is something called 'vasovagal syncope' - it's where certain triggers lead to the loss of consciousness, such as: fear, pain, fatigue, hunger, etc.

Unless you are a small person, with known low blood pressure, or faced those particular triggers, it really should be looked into. You should attend your physician and they will probably look into possible causes, like abnormal heart rhythm, or even things like seizures as the underlying cause. Losing consciousness without an obvious cause should always be treated as a serious matter until can otherwise be explained for.

Hope that helps - keep us posted!

You can read more about vasovagal syncope here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasovagal_response

Please do not listen to wikipedia -_- I was diagnosed with vasovagul syncope 4 years ago. Syncope caused by fatigue and hunger would NOT be vasovagul. Vasovagul syncope is a sudden change causing your nervous system to "pause" for a second, meaning your blood pressure drops and you lose consciousness. Fatigue and hunger are things that occur slowly, causing a gradual feeling of dizziness rather than a sudden loss of consciousness. If it is vasovagul syncope it is more likely triggered by a change in position or heat or like listed above, sudden pain or sudden shock. If you'd just stood up, this could be the reason.

[plebble]

I sometimes feel dizzy when food gets stuck in my throat. In order to prevent myself from fainting, I must wash it down with a drink

[Cloud_Strife]

Please do not listen to wikipedia -_- I was diagnosed with vasovagul syncope 4 years ago. Syncope caused by fatigue and hunger would NOT be vasovagul. Vasovagul syncope is a sudden change causing your nervous system to "pause" for a second, meaning your blood pressure drops and you lose consciousness. Fatigue and hunger are things that occur slowly, causing a gradual feeling of dizziness rather than a sudden loss of consciousness. If it is vasovagul syncope it is more likely triggered by a change in position or heat or like listed above, sudden pain or sudden shock. If you'd just stood up, this could be the reason.

Please do not listen to wikipedia -_- I was diagnosed with vasovagul syncope 4 years ago. Syncope caused by fatigue and hunger would NOT be vasovagul. Vasovagul syncope is a sudden change causing your nervous system to "pause" for a second, meaning your blood pressure drops and you lose consciousness. Fatigue and hunger are things that occur slowly, causing a gradual feeling of dizziness rather than a sudden loss of consciousness. If it is vasovagul syncope it is more likely triggered by a change in position or heat or like listed above, sudden pain or sudden shock. If you'd just stood up, this could be the reason.

Not sure why I typed hunger and fatigue into the vasovagal section - I was intending to type it into the plain syncope section. Hunger and fatigue are often associated with hypoglycaemia, which is what I identified in the section before the vasovagal section. My bad.

I'd be cautious about what you said about fatigue and hunger. As just mentioned, it is associated with hypoglycaemia a lot of the time and people can lose consciousness very suddenly because of that. It doesn't have to be gradual. This is why you might see diabetic patients go unconscious, if they took too much insulin and their blood sugar drops, for example.

Furthermore, syncope related to heat and changes in position are usually related to blood pressure. Losing consciousness in hot conditions is usually due to dehydration and this drops the blood pressure, leading to less blood perfusing the brain, causing loss of consciousness. Losing consciousness due to changes in position is associated with what is called postural hypotension - blood pressure dropping due to suddenly standing up from a lying position, for instance. This can also be associated with dehydration, but can be caused by generally low blood pressure in those with small frames, those with heart disease or the elderly.

[Fiction]

Not sure why I typed hunger and fatigue into the vasovagal section - I was intending to type it into the plain syncope section. Hunger and fatigue are often associated with hypoglycaemia, which is what I identified in the section before the vasovagal section. My bad.

I'd be cautious about what you said about fatigue and hunger. As just mentioned, it is associated with hypoglycaemia a lot of the time and people can lose consciousness very suddenly because of that. It doesn't have to be gradual. This is why you might see diabetic patients go unconscious, if they took too much insulin and their blood sugar drops, for example.

Furthermore, syncope related to heat and changes in position are usually related to blood pressure. Losing consciousness in hot conditions is usually due to dehydration and this drops the blood pressure, leading to less blood perfusing the brain, causing loss of consciousness. Losing consciousness due to changes in position is associated with what is called postural hypotension - blood pressure dropping due to suddenly standing up from a lying position, for instance. This can also be associated with dehydration, but can be caused by generally low blood pressure in those with small frames, those with heart disease or the elderly.

Right let me inform you of my diagnoses: Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrom and Vasovagul syncope caused by Orthostatic hypotension.

I have never once passed out due to shock or pain, yet I am diagnosed with vasovagul syncope and seeing one of the UKs leading Dysautonomia specialists at the National Hospital for Neurology in London. A slightly more reliable source I feel than wikipedia. I frequently have syncope issues when standing up and when in hot environments. The issue is a lot more complex than can be read about on wikipedia and I feel somewhat insulted that you should think otherwise.

This is completely irrelevant to the thread. If you want to continue discussing please PM me.

[RavleIncarnate]

I've fainted twice in my life - once when I had an extremely severe case of instant vertigo, and once the first time I ever came during an orgasm. I understand the second, as do many peoplw, but the first still worries me. My vertigo attacks have been increasing in power, and occurances have been rising, and I'm getting worried. Just this evening I had a strong one that caused me to plainly fall onto the couch behind me.

[Cloud_Strife]

Right let me inform you of my diagnoses: Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrom and Vasovagul syncope caused by Orthostatic hypotension.

I have never once passed out due to shock or pain, yet I am diagnosed with vasovagul syncope and seeing one of the UKs leading Dysautonomia specialists at the National Hospital for Neurology in London. A slightly more reliable source I feel than wikipedia.

I'd agree that the specialist would be a more reliable source than Wikipedia in the relevant topic in most instances. However, even an expert opinion is only classed as grade IV evidence in evidence based medicine, the lowest grade on the scale. Just because a specialist or doctor says something, doesn't make it correct. Even online articles, if linked up to other resources (like RCT's) and used properly, would be considered of greater authority than expert opinion. Just because an article is online and readily in view of the public doesn't make it less useful - one has to assess things on a case by case basis.

I am not saying that expert opinion does not matter. However, you'll often find that a patient leaves a doctor's office with a different understanding to what the doctor was trying to convey, because there was some miscommunication along the way.

I frequently have syncope issues when standing up and when in hot environments. The issue is a lot more complex than can be read about on wikipedia and I feel somewhat insulted that you should think otherwise.

Who said that I thought otherwise? Please find within my entry, a point where I stated this. If anything, it's odd that you got 'insulted' over an assumption on your part which was unfounded.

Sometimes people make a lot of assumptions, based on the knowledge and upon things they have been exposed to, especially things seen frequently or recently. This a fault in human nature in associations, called anchoring. It's like an emergency doctor who sees three patients with appendicitis in a row, then misses the ectopic pregnancy in the fourth patient. Just because one has a condition, doesn't make them the authority on the topic itself.

Often, the more rare a condition and the longer the person has had that condition, the more familiar they are with the nuances involved within that condition. At those points, it is not uncommon for the patient to know more than a doctor about specifics - that's because it's a specific issue they have read up on, but you'd almost be certain that they'd not be as knowledgeable in other areas, in association or not.

POTS sometimes coexists with VVS. Doesn't mean that a person can't have more than one condition or diagnosis simultaneously. These are separate entities. It doesn't mean that you may never have experienced VVS on the background of POTS, of course.

While I sympathise with you having this condition, like you, I don't see the relevance to this thread.

This is completely irrelevant to the thread.

[CosmicNoodle]

I once goy quite I'll (Just a common cold or the flu), anyway, it kicked the crapnout of me for days on end. So shortly after getting out of the shower I was walking to the living room and just started to get tunnel vision and compleatly lost my hearing appet from a ringing sound that I always have (a medical condition) and just fell flat on my face and stayed under for about 10 second's.
Thankfully when I woke up I had fallen onto the sofa and not onto the floor meaning I was perfectly fine. Didn't enjoy it though.

[Ryan1698]

I've fainted a few times in school. Once I hadn't had a drink all day (stupid of me) and I did cross country in PE. I just got really dizzy and fell straight onto the bench. Luckily my friend caught me and got the teacher. I was only out for a few seconds, but it was still quite scary.

I also fainted on the way out of my maths exam. I thought I'd failed, and I'd had no sleep the night before. I was unbelievably stressed. This time, they told me to go to the doctors but it was all down to stress. At least I fainted after the exam, and not before. Then, I really would have failed!

[Neverender]

I've fainted many times. Generally when people spoke of Needles (although blood and gore I can handle)

Most notably, I fainted upon hearing and thinking about the time my father broke his nose with a baseball. My grandfather was chatting about it in the parking lot, and I fell, Hit my head on a car, hit my head on the pavement, and ended up in the ER for 3 hours as an utter waste of my time.