Brief blackouts, dizziness, headaches, visual disturbance

[mamaruns]

I hope someone, especially a doctor, could give me some ideas on what might be going on with my 43 year-old husband.  I was just told less then a month ago that for many years, he periodically gets these sudden quick blackouts that last for about a second.  He says there's a very brief moment of missing time, and he almost passes out but it happens so fast that he can catch himself and he feels very dizzy right after.  I had never noticed it, but it's happenning more often now and I have witnessed a few recently.  At first when he told me, I thought they might be absense seizures, but now that I've seen I really don't think they are.  Besides this, he's often fatigued, wakes up with horrible headaches with pain in the back of his head and neck, he's having dizziness and balance problems, there are times when he has "kaleidoscope" vision and sometimes when reading his eyes have a rapid back and forth movement.  He is also having episodes of weakness and numbness in his arms.  I think what he has is more then just a simple migraine, as the headache seems to be every day now.  He's had the pains in the back of his head since he was a child, it has just gotten worse.

Somebody please help!  

[Sarah_83]

I have had episodes during reading! All of a sudden I can't see the words....its seems like its only the right eye that blackout..along with dizzy feeling.....no headaches just vision blackouts.....someone tell me what this could be...it happened before but worse when I was pregnant weigh my first child and doctors said it was from dehydration but that wasd full blackout from store to parking lot I collapsed! I remember hearing voices around me but weak, dizzy and blindness like...it was scary!! I've been wearing corrective lenses sense I was 8 years old...which is 24 years now.....someone help and tell me if u think it could just be dehydration.....

[Zainp40]

The exact same thing has been happening to me but I'm a 14 year old male.

[dirvin]

My wife has blacked out to several hours while I was at work. She woke up on the floor, she has been having dizzy spells, all she wants to do is sleep when she feels like this, she says that her had hurts, and the other day, she was confused so much as to who our cats were and where she was. Anyone have any clues or advice? I am really worried about her and she refuses to go to the hospital.

[Iobrien14]

Hello Dr. Deshmukh. I was wondering if you could give me some insight or something with my problem. For the past year or so, i have been having these small blackout moments. One minute I'd be completely fine, going about my day and then the next, I would blackout. It only lasts for but a few seconds. It seems to mainly happen while I am in the middle of a conversation. During those seconds of blacking out I've been told that i stop talking (if I was talking), I would then make a small giggle. I would completely forget what the subject was about or even what I was doing. I am starting to get worried as one of those moments caused me to get into an accident. I had looked into it and my blood work came back fine, i had an EKG and an EEG done and they both came back fine as well. Please let me know what you think.

[van_spa]

Hi

I'm only 14 but I noticed quite a few of you have added in that these symptoms of yours started at a early age, and I have almost all of these symptoms. Like whenever I stand up I suddenly feel like a bunch of blood is rushing to my head then suddenly the edge of my vision starts to slowly black out, and I'm starting to freak out about it because now when it happens I fall down and feel like my head is about to burst.

Can anyone please recommend what I should do? I've already talked with my doctor about it and they said that I shouldn't worry about it because they're just headaches.

[kayl72]

Same with me. I don't get headaches, but it only happens when I stand up or start walking after I was sitting.