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Why am I fainting?
i am wondering what is going on...
I have random dizzy spells that sometime turn into be fainting.
It has happened since high school and I am now 24.
I can feel when they are coming on. I get all light headed and dizzy, sometimes I feel nauseous. I feel really "heavy", sometimes I hear a ringing in my ear, and other times it feels like I have my ears plugged.
I have fainted a about 5 times in 6 years. I do completly black out, not for too long, when I come to I am shaky and sweaty and feel "heavy".
This is starting to scare me....
Besides this problem I have contsant nausea, but the doc has givin me medication to stop the nausea which is really helping.
Can someone help me please?
I have random dizzy spells that sometime turn into be fainting.
It has happened since high school and I am now 24.
I can feel when they are coming on. I get all light headed and dizzy, sometimes I feel nauseous. I feel really "heavy", sometimes I hear a ringing in my ear, and other times it feels like I have my ears plugged.
I have fainted a about 5 times in 6 years. I do completly black out, not for too long, when I come to I am shaky and sweaty and feel "heavy".
This is starting to scare me....
Besides this problem I have contsant nausea, but the doc has givin me medication to stop the nausea which is really helping.
Can someone help me please?
Wow - great to hear from fellow fainters, thx!
I have fainted my whole life, and had heaps of tests done too. Like you, at your age, they said anaemic....and yes, maybe that caused that one faint, but it couldn't possibly be th reason for my whole life!
As you guys all know, fainting (and serious long term fainting, not just a old fashioned "pass out" like in the movies) is so annoying and embarrassing and no-one (even loved ones) understands how horrible you feel after it. I often feel like embarrassed and I dont want people to make a fuss, nor do I want to seem weak and let this ruin my life, so I get up and carry on when I clearly should be resting. Poeple just don't understand.
Other reasons I have fainted is from pain, or from going hot to cold, and sometimes in the middle of the night with stomach pain, but for no other reason. It is so bizarre and no-one has an answer for it.
I've had the ECG and whatever the heart one is called, and both have come back ok. The Neurolgists (ive seen two over my life - about 20yrs apart) both said the same thing...that my scan isn't normal, and has slight epileptic tendancies, but I definitely don't have epilepsy.
Ugh....why is there no where to get information on this? Even google searching doesn't come up with much. Well, it does, but a lot of the time its about fainting being a symptom for various diseases and head injuries.....and not much at all about people who are long time sufferrers. It's so hard to figure out whether
the fainting is a cause of something, or just the problem on it's own. All I know I have had to deal with it all my life...and just when I think it's all ok, bam! another attack happens. Good news is as I've gotten older I think the attacks have lessened, but unfortunately have gotten worse in severity.
It feels like no doctors really know what or why this happens. Apart from those specialists I've been to heaps of GPs, and even into hospital a couple of times. Still no answers. I don't even bother going anymore.
Right now I have a huge painful egg on my head from fainting (and falling on bathroom tiles) in the middle of last night, and today I am really annoyed as I just wish we could find some real answers!!
But, to leave on a positive note, there are worse conditions out there, and I do have an amazing life and most of the time I have found people to be sympathic, even if they can't ever understand what it really feels like to have an attack or live with this condition. You can live a great life....try eating a high salt diet, drinks lots of water and always stand up slowly, and lie down as soon as you feel faint (with legs elevated even better).
Good luck to you all, and if anyone hears any further studies/ideas be sure to let us know! :)
I have fainted my whole life, and had heaps of tests done too. Like you, at your age, they said anaemic....and yes, maybe that caused that one faint, but it couldn't possibly be th reason for my whole life!
As you guys all know, fainting (and serious long term fainting, not just a old fashioned "pass out" like in the movies) is so annoying and embarrassing and no-one (even loved ones) understands how horrible you feel after it. I often feel like embarrassed and I dont want people to make a fuss, nor do I want to seem weak and let this ruin my life, so I get up and carry on when I clearly should be resting. Poeple just don't understand.
Other reasons I have fainted is from pain, or from going hot to cold, and sometimes in the middle of the night with stomach pain, but for no other reason. It is so bizarre and no-one has an answer for it.
I've had the ECG and whatever the heart one is called, and both have come back ok. The Neurolgists (ive seen two over my life - about 20yrs apart) both said the same thing...that my scan isn't normal, and has slight epileptic tendancies, but I definitely don't have epilepsy.
Ugh....why is there no where to get information on this? Even google searching doesn't come up with much. Well, it does, but a lot of the time its about fainting being a symptom for various diseases and head injuries.....and not much at all about people who are long time sufferrers. It's so hard to figure out whether
the fainting is a cause of something, or just the problem on it's own. All I know I have had to deal with it all my life...and just when I think it's all ok, bam! another attack happens. Good news is as I've gotten older I think the attacks have lessened, but unfortunately have gotten worse in severity.
It feels like no doctors really know what or why this happens. Apart from those specialists I've been to heaps of GPs, and even into hospital a couple of times. Still no answers. I don't even bother going anymore.
Right now I have a huge painful egg on my head from fainting (and falling on bathroom tiles) in the middle of last night, and today I am really annoyed as I just wish we could find some real answers!!
But, to leave on a positive note, there are worse conditions out there, and I do have an amazing life and most of the time I have found people to be sympathic, even if they can't ever understand what it really feels like to have an attack or live with this condition. You can live a great life....try eating a high salt diet, drinks lots of water and always stand up slowly, and lie down as soon as you feel faint (with legs elevated even better).
Good luck to you all, and if anyone hears any further studies/ideas be sure to let us know! :)
Hello,
I faint all the time, i consistantly feel sick, i have problems sleeping and i black out just like you described but my eyes are watering and i have no idea who i am or where i am for about 5-10 mins afterwards, i have been told its possible that im anemic. I have never done any testing for it, little word of advise before you faint : Sitt Down On the Ground Where Ever you are before you faint incose you faint ontop of someone or if you colide with anything x
I faint all the time, i consistantly feel sick, i have problems sleeping and i black out just like you described but my eyes are watering and i have no idea who i am or where i am for about 5-10 mins afterwards, i have been told its possible that im anemic. I have never done any testing for it, little word of advise before you faint : Sitt Down On the Ground Where Ever you are before you faint incose you faint ontop of someone or if you colide with anything x
I FAINT THE SAME WAY MOST OF YOU DESCRIBED,LAST NIGHT IT HAPPENED AGAIN. I FEEL IT COMING AND ALWAYS TRY TO GET SOMEWHERE SEATED BUT USUALLY NEVER MAKE IT , LAST NIGHT MY HEAD MET THE DRESSER AND FOUGHT, I THOUGHT MY HEAD WAS GOING TO BUST FROM THE SWELLING. I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO! THIS HAPPENS TO ME LIKE 1 TIME A YEAR AND THE DOC SAID THAT SINCE IT IS ALWAYS OCCURS AT NIGHT AFTER I EAT IT MUST BE THE SUGAR IN THE FOOD. BUT I DONT KNOW AND I DONT HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE SO TO GET A BETTER ANWSER IS IMPOSSIBLE.I ALWAYS WAKE UP HOT SWEATY AND CONFUSED. PLEASE HELP
im 21 and ive been fainting since i was 13. my docs have never bothered with it, they just look at me as if im lying. it might have something to do with the fact that people have only witnest this once before so they tend to ignore me.
i get dizzy alot and feel like im going to faint but i can pull myself out of it. when i do faint there is no warning or at least not a long enough warning to actually do something to stop or brace yourself. i recently had another and wacked my head off the bath, i completly knocked my self out. i have a huge lump on my head, lost a tooth, nearly broke my jaw an slit my lip open. the fainting spell i had before that one was the one that was witnest, by my boss of all people. i had a seizure they said. they disgibed what i was doing when i was out cold and it was in fact a siezure, yet my docs still won't do anything. they say they believe i don't have epilepsy (which is great ) so they aren't going to waste money by giving me a brain scan!! JUST LEARN TO LIVE WITH IT, they told me. well not this time. people don't just faint for no reason. get yourself properly lokked and don't say no for an answer because the nest time you faint you could brake your neck.
i get dizzy alot and feel like im going to faint but i can pull myself out of it. when i do faint there is no warning or at least not a long enough warning to actually do something to stop or brace yourself. i recently had another and wacked my head off the bath, i completly knocked my self out. i have a huge lump on my head, lost a tooth, nearly broke my jaw an slit my lip open. the fainting spell i had before that one was the one that was witnest, by my boss of all people. i had a seizure they said. they disgibed what i was doing when i was out cold and it was in fact a siezure, yet my docs still won't do anything. they say they believe i don't have epilepsy (which is great ) so they aren't going to waste money by giving me a brain scan!! JUST LEARN TO LIVE WITH IT, they told me. well not this time. people don't just faint for no reason. get yourself properly lokked and don't say no for an answer because the nest time you faint you could brake your neck.
I have the exact same symtoms I had went to my doctor and they are sending me to a ears nose and throught doctor you might have Menieres Disease which is really vertigo. If it feels like you have been on a rollar coaster and you flipped a million times and after you get off you are still spining and want to throw up you might want to check into it, because it could also be your hart or even in worse cases be a brain tumor. Go and get checked out befor it's to late. Also check out the symptoms by typing in Menieres Disease and you will be surprised with all the information. Thats out there.
hey guys..i've been a fainter my whole life. so is my sister. i've had loads of heart testing, etc., and they never find anything. for me personally, i usually faint when i'm overheated. but have any of you asked your doctor about vertigo? it can be pretty severe, as you are describing. inner ear imbalance. just another thought.
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