By the way, the co payment to the doctor may be more expensive then dr. facepunch, However their advice might be... reliable.
if your in your bathroom washing your hands and all of a sudden your entire right arm goes numb, then you just blackout, don't worry, you have brain cancer.
Joking, but if something like the above does happen, get a doctor and a brain scan as soon as you god damn can.
Also, [url]http://www.medicinenet.com/low_blood_pressure/article.htm[/url]
I'd try licorice (that black shit that most people think is made of poo even though its not), I like it, it clears mucus and makes poo green, and I just love the scent in general.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquorice[/url]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquorice_(confectionery[/url])
One or twice I woke up from bed but could not move at all before for a few minutes, probably just my body not waking up but my sub-conscious and eyes waking up.
If you feel you're about to pass out, strain the muscles in your chest so the blood goes to your head faster, other than that, drink coffee beacuse you have low blood pressure.
Has happened to me twice, but in a different way, I felt anxious and stressed for half an hour, then started to sweat and a few seconds after that my head started spinning and I woke up a few seconds later, sweaty and pale, but completely awake (no confusion or anything). Which is why I always eat breakfast now (low blood sugar levels aren't fun, which turned out to be the cause since blood and hearth tests were ok).
And yeah, go to a doctor anyways, better safe than sorry.
My only advice is to check with a doctor.
[QUOTE=dcalde78;17914909]You got up too quick, I get that feeling all the time, but I've not passed out from it.[/QUOTE]
This.
Happens more to people who have a low bloodpressure. I fainted once due getting up too fast. That was pretty rad experience.
[QUOTE=Wig Wam;17914901]This is not normal. You have very low blood pressure and need to get it checked out, possibly start drinking coffee to increase it to get rid of the blackouts. I've also got low blood pressure but only very rarely does it make me go a bit 'fuzzy' when standing up, not every day.[/QUOTE]
i have what OP was saying all the time?
i wish i could pass out in classes.
free day aww yea
[QUOTE=Flaming Neko;17917455]i wish i could pass out in classes.
free day aww yea[/QUOTE]
No you don't. I thought the same before I actually did, and I assure you it's not fun (sure there's much worse, but still it's not a pleasant experience).
You get up too fast(do it slower), and because of your inner ear you pass out.
I once passed out when I was done showering. Probably because of the heat.
And once when my dad pulled out one of my theeth. He just said "Can I take a look in your mouth?", and I was like "Sure, why not". Then he ripped it out, I screamed, saw blood, then passed out. I was around 7-8.
Happens to me, except I never pass out. I wake up really fast, and my eyes go dark and I feel really sick.
This happens to me a lot, and I have low blood pressure (runs in the family according to my mum). I've never actually lost consiousness though; the best thing to do is to just quickly lie back down and let the blood flow back into your head - I think its just when you get up too suddenly and all the blood falls out of your head.
Something similar happened to me at school.
I was standing around a table whilst my DT teacher was talking about how to do something, and I just started to feel really dizzy, and the blackout thing happened. I didn't totally pass out, I just kind of blurted out.
"Need to go to matron."
And then stumbled into a table (ouch) and out the door.
Matron said I had low blood sugar levels due to not eating breakfast or lunch, and gave me a kitkat.
Get up slowly not suddenly.
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You passed out because you restricted air flow to your lungs whilst you stretched out.
Also, you're stretching WRONG.
Once in a Science lesson my vision became greenish and I couldn't see anything due to only seeing fucking green.
I was sweating a bloody lot too, for apparently no reason.
Still trying to figure out what happened that day.
[QUOTE=gmaster;17918138]Something similar happened to me at school.
I was standing around a table whilst my DT teacher was talking about how to do something, and I just started to feel really dizzy, and the blackout thing happened. I didn't totally pass out, I just kind of blurted out.
"Need to go to matron."
And then stumbled into a table (ouch) and out the door.
Matron said I had low blood sugar levels due to not eating breakfast or lunch, and gave me a kitkat.[/QUOTE]
Same thing here.. I saw little blotches of white light and heard a loud ringing then the room started spinning so I just sort of stood up (sort of) and just stumbled out of the door. 10 mins later I was fine.
This is pretty much what happened to me during the summer.
Except that I hit my head against a hard wooden corner and got a pretty awesome wound on my forehead. Had to get stitched.
Vasovagal Syncope, you may have it.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasovagal_episode[/url]
[QUOTE=Carne;17918074]I once passed out when I was done showering. Probably because of the heat.
And once when my dad pulled out one of my theeth. He just said "Can I take a look in your mouth?", and I was like "Sure, why not". Then he ripped it out, I screamed, saw blood, then passed out. I was around 7-8.[/QUOTE]
My mom got light-headed once when she got out of the shower, too.
Turns out she had a stroke.
It's probably not a big deal, OP, but if you faint again (after trying to not get up so fast), a doctor would not be a bad idea to consider.
[QUOTE=SuPeR_MaN;17918225]Same thing here.. I saw little blotches of white light and heard a loud ringing then the room started spinning so I just sort of stood up (sort of) and just stumbled out of the door. 10 mins later I was fine.[/QUOTE]
You feel fine later because adrenaline is released in your body and makes you feel good. When I passed out for a few seconds I felt absolutely fine 10 seconds later, because of that adrenaline (but the adrenaline can't replace the sugar, so I still needed to eat something).
I get extremely lightheaded when i get up fast, never blacked out though.
It seems like this problem i have: if i hold my breath for about 5 sec, i can blackout at will. Scared my art teacher to death using this.
This has happened to me before. I nearly blacked in gym one day. We were playing eggball and my vision started to get blurry. Then it went black. I walked over to my gym teacher and told him I wasn't feeling good. He told me to go back and get changed, so I started walking over. At that point everything was black and shadowy. Well, I missed the hall entryway and walked straight into the wall. Seeing me walk straight into a wall must have been pretty funny.
[QUOTE=WillerinV1.02;17914881]I have no idea how this happened, but here it goes:
Usally, when I wake up and do my first day stretch, I kinda go "part blind". Im not sure if anyone else would get it, but the corners of my eyes would go black and I couldnt see. I assume this happens to everyone, but thats not what I'm here to tell you.
Today, I woke up and was sitting on a chair. I got up, had a stretch, then bam, the eye thing happened. Only this time, it consumed my whole eyes, I couldnt see anything, my eyelids were open, but I was completly blind. I then felt myself fall to the floor. A few minutes later I was woken up by someone in the house, who assumed I was just playing around.
Anyone know what this could possibly mean?[/QUOTE]
Happened to me too, but for some reason i dont see black thing but white :raise:. And i usually wake up 10 seconds later.
[QUOTE=Str4t0s;17918723]Happened to me too, but for some reason i dont see black thing but white :raise:. And i usually wake up 10 seconds later.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, this is almost certainly Vasovagal Syncope.
The "white out" instead of a traditional "black out" is one of the key symptoms.
From my own medical record;
I pass out due to blood pressure falling while in a standing position. When you stand up too fast, you're heart rate should increase to stop gravity pulling your blood to your feet. So your legs get filled up with blood, as there's not enough force to pump it back up to your brain. You're body will understand this, and compensate, by making you 'blackout' and pass out to the floor. Why? So that you're in a horizontal position which allows the blood to easily flow around your body.
What can you do? Well there aren't any decent tablets to take for it. Raising blood pressure is a bad thing to do if you black out. For example I use to be on middodrine for 3 months, and the increase in blood pressure caused immense headaches for the whole period, and I destroyed my liver from taking so many paracetamol tablets.
You can also get specially developed tights, which work by squeezing the lower leg, to stop as much blood dropping that far down, and at least raise the BP a little bit. Although They feel stupid to wear, often don't work, and a night mare to put on. Think of them as putting a 100% cotton/elastic tight condom over your leg. They do come in various colours, dark blue, gray, black, soft pink, or what I have, dark green. You can wear socks over them to hide the fact you're wearing them in public. Another downside is the sweat produced, so you'll have to ask for a few pairs if you get them for when the others are in the wash.
Go see you're doctor about it. One of the best ways they can reproduce the effect is by putting you on a tilt table test. Basically, a tilting table. You lie down on it, horizontal for a good 15-30 minutes to get a relaxed blood flow around you're body. Then you get flipped into an up right position, still attached to the table. You're usually monitored by 2+ heart beat recorders, and a blood pressure tube around your finger (some times arm, but as it's for a long time numbness kicks in so they tend to use your finger if they can).
Depending on what kind of condition your in, will depend on what treatment you get. I myself have the low blood pressure and low heart rate, so I was given a pacemaker. Though I will tell you to try everything else before you get a pacemaker. They can stop you from doing so many cool things.
You may also want to try standing for a long period of time. Pretend you're a Olympic swimming diver, on the edge of a board, feet together, hands straight up in the air. After maybe the first 30 seconds, you might notice things like starting to sweat, light headed, dizzy. After a minute you might even get the same 'blindness' you get. If you're really wanting to go as far as you can standing up, make sure some one else is there.
You can some times over ride how your brain functions, and train it to get the heart beating faster. To do this, it's a simple 5 minutes job every day, for about 3 months. You stand up, and lean back against a wall, convince your body that "This is what I do. Get use to it." over and over. This some times doesn't work (like it didn't for me) but can for others if the condition isn't so bad.
Try getting more salt into your blood stream, and I mean lots. I take 8 600micro grams of salt daily. Along with added salt on foods and such. The taste is fucking awful, but you'll get use to it.
If you ever do start blacking out more frequently, for gods sake make sure you and others know what to do. There's nothing worse than blacking out, then being picked up and forced to walk to a medical room, when it happened to me in school, I didn't care were I was, I just wanted to lie down.
What you should do, if you black out, prop your feet up with some thing soft like a pillow about a foot or two high. Try not to use hard things, you don't want to cut off the blood supply and squash veins, especially when they are packed with blood like they would be. If there's nothing soft, make sure some one knows to pick your feet up at least.
Another thing, be careful what you do. You might not notice it yet, but some times your legs can get so full of blood, pressure can cause a huge shock pain like they've just burst. I figured this out when I was in the park, on a swing. The momentum pulled all the blood to my legs, I got dizzy and decided to jump off as quick as I could before I passed out. Was a bad mistake, the legs where filled with blood, my feet hit the floor and BAM, I was on my ass in pain for 30 minutes.
My recommendation, go see a doctor about it. Some times they might give you a 24 hour heart beat recorder. If you do get one, make sure to try and make yourself black out. I'm not saying this so that you fool the doctors to think it's bad. But because if you sit on your ass all day with the recorder how are they meant to know what happens when you black out? The more info they have, the more they have a better understanding about it.
I hope this educates you in some way. Any questions just ask.
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Vasovagal syncope, also known as Vasovagal Syndrome. Which I have.
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