fainting, blacking out, and momentarily losing my memory please help?

[chewalla]

I've had what I always thought as being light headed my whole life! It ranges from every single day being lighted headed when I stand up to  full on passing out waking up on the floor with a broken jaw, to talking on the phone laughing to waking up crosslegged right where I'd fell and dropped busting my head open and the phone is lying on the floor. During the bad one it take awhile for me to regain my barring and figure out where I am and what just happen. The less sever as I say it comes on kinda slow my vision starts to tunnel to black and my hearing tunnels at the same time and I hear a faint high pitched ringing noise (like those old picture tub tv s use to make)  and my tongue goes numb and my head twiches in almost jerking movements and my limbs do the same.  And all I can do is wait it out and just as all my sences went out they come back as if some turned up the volume. .  and the one that scares me I had about 3 yrs back I was bowling stood up walked over grabbed the ball and I don't know how long I stood there but the next thimg i remember my ex boyfriend had me by the arm asking if I was gonna play,  but I felt like my words wouldn't come to me, like I forgot all the words! And I remember looking forward and I couldn't remember how to put one foot in front of the other. And i panicked, I started crying I remember not even recognizing him.  And this strange feeling that something was really wrong.  He told me that from the time he noticed it was a good 5 mins or so but I never let him know some of it lasted long after.   I have been diagnosed with a seizure disorder but some of it feel so different then others.  Please help me figure out whats going on with me.

[JohnHaganMD]

This is not a primary eye problem. Your problem most likely relates to your heart not responding fast enough when you go from flat (asleep) to standing or from sitting for a while to standing. The problem is called "orthostatic hypotension".  Sometimes if its as severe as you describe it can be a problem with the heart, blood pressure or the heart regulatory mechanism.  You need to work through this with a cardiologist or internist. You likely will need a 24 hr heart monitor test (Holter monitor).  This is important to follow through on this before you break a bone or crack your skull.

[chewalla]

I' did out I had a heart murmer when I was 15. I was told a valve in my heart doesn't close properly. At 19 I blacked out and shattered the left side of my jaw.  My sister said in was walking to put my niece in her walker she said I bent down put her down turned around my eyes rolled back my head went up and she said I just went down mid stride and she said I never even tired to put my arms out nothing. That I was just gone all she could see was the whites of my eyes before I hit the floor.  I don't remember any events of the day and I still can't remember weeks before the event.   The first thing I remember is waking up on the floor blood everywhere.  What I seen was the kitchen, my sister standing at the sink but my head said I was still in my room,  I asked her what she was doing in my bedroom. And she tried to explain to me where I was but it took me standing up and about a good 5 mins or so before it connected.  The hospital did every test under the sun and I was told they didn't know why I blacked out.    And a year latter I was put on a holter monitor for a week.  Only this I was told there was some events.  That I could explain some of it but they didn't believe that was the actual source.  I had a test on my heart with a ultrasound and it still showed what they said to me was back flow at one valve.  They found out also I was hypoglycemic. But I read low but not low enough to explain it. And like i said before at 31 diagnosed with seizures. But the stated that the seizures were from past history of sever domestic assault I was hit in the head a lot.  But that was long after these events started. These events have happen long before the shattered jaw and has always been part of my life.  Sorry so long winded.

[chewalla]

I was told I had a  heart murmer when I was 15. I was told a valve in my heart doesn't close properly. At 19 I blacked out and shattered the left side of my jaw.  My sister said in was walking to put my niece in her walker she said I bent down put her down turned around my eyes rolled back my head went up and she said I just went down mid stride and she said I never even tired to put my arms out nothing. That I was just gone all she could see was the whites of my eyes before I hit the floor.  I don't remember any events of the day and I still can't remember weeks before the event.   The first thing I remember is waking up on the floor blood everywhere.  What I seen was the kitchen, my sister standing at the sink but my head said I was still in my room,  I asked her what she was doing in my bedroom. And she tried to explain to me where I was but it took me standing up and about a good 5 mins or so before it connected.  The hospital did every test under the sun and I was told they didn't know why I blacked out.    And a year latter I was put on a holter monitor for a week.  Only this I was told there was some events.  That I could explain some of it but they didn't believe that was the actual source.  I had a test on my heart with a ultrasound and it still showed what they said to me was back flow at one valve.  They found out also I was hypoglycemic. But I read low but not low enough to explain it. And like i said before at 31 diagnosed with seizures. But the stated that the seizures were from past history of sever domestic assault I was hit in the head a lot.  But that was long after these events started. These events have happen long before the shattered jaw and has always been part of my life.  Sorry so long winded.

[JohnHaganMD]

So if things are worsening you need to work with a cardiologist to see if you need medication, cardiac pacing, valve surgery. things change sometimes for the better but often for the worse.