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!  

[ray0214]

I have some of the same symptoms, but mine just happen without the head pain aswell, I just get dizzy and blackout for a couple of seconds. Recently I was going down the stairs and fell off the last 3 steps, I think it was 3 I really don't remembe, all I know was one minute I was on the steps and the next I was on the floor. I wish someone would help, cause I don't have Insurance or employment right now and I can't see a doctor.

[centurylink101]

            
                  On the night of one episode. I went to bed with swollen eye, body tremors, shaky hands, serve headache, and dizziness.  I had trouble getting to sleep that night. When I finely feel asleep. It was around 12:00 AM. I don't remember dreaming while asleep. After a couple of hours. I remember waking up around 3:15 AM. However, I had trouble getting back to sleep.

                While lying awake in bed. I think that I had some type of black out. Because I didn't remember what happen while I was awake around that time. All I remembered was my eyes rolling to the back of my head and seeing black. When I woke up the next morning. I felt like my eyes had been rolled to the back of me head for a long period of time. I had no memory of what happen that night after I blacked out. On the other hand.

                I was no longer dizzy, my hands and body was no longer shaking, and my headache was almost completely gone. I actually felt like myself again. However, I still couldn't remember what I dreamed or what I did that night. A few days ago. I had another episode. this episode occurred with blurry vision, headache, weakness, chills, body tremors, dizziness, sleeping, slightly swollen eye lids, and memory lost. I do have a history of grand mal seizures from childhood. Had stopped having them before becoming a teenager. Was taken off meds back then.

Any advice  

[centurylink101]

I have been having some of those symptoms myself. I have been having those symptoms for almost a year now. It was even a time within the year that my eyes rolled to the back of my head and I blacked out. Don't really know what's wrong with me any advice.

[eileenduncan]

My daughter is 20 and is experiencing headaches, blurriness then loss of vision and blackouts, occasionally she has vomitting prior.  I have a her to the emergency room three times and they find nothing.  This time (which was just tonight) they referred her to a neurologist and cardiologist.  Her hair is also falling out when she washes or brushes it, not just a little but big handfuls.  She had seizures as a child and I am wondering if she is not having them now.  Last night she got a pain in her head, blurred vision and then passed out, she fell into the street and now has cuts and bruises on her legs and arms.  Anyone that has any ideas or suggestions please let me know.  Thank you so much and God bless you all.

[ACuriousGirl]

Well I have similar episodes. I am a 20 year old female. When I was 13 the neurologist diagnosed me when absence seizures. He told me that I was suppose to grow out of them but I still have similar events and now he is unsure of what these "EVENTS" are. Can somebody please help me?When I am under a lot of pressure, stressed or when I don't get enough rest or just randomly I have these brief moments usually just a couple of seconds maybe 3-15 seconds were I will black out. Most of the times I can't hear anything, can't feel anything, nor can I see anything. I have mild headaches that can last for hours and sometimes I get sharp pains on the side of my head and on the front of my head but they don't last that long maybe between 15-30 seconds. I do get dizzy from time to time but rarely it gets to the point were I'm about to fall or faint. My speech sometimes get jumbled up but when I read I have a hard time concentrating and understanding what I read. It seems as if my eyes jump sometimes but my vision is good.  I don't have high/low blood pressure so what could the problem be?

[tmichigan3232]

I have a 17 year old daughter who has been sick for two years.  She lost 20 lbs within 4 weeks we have been to every doctor, they have examined the inside and outside of every inch of her body and still come back and tell me that they don't know what it is.  She misses work and school sometimes because she doesn't feel good.  She says that her vision gets blurry, she knows that she is there but feels like she is somewhere else (hope that makes since), she fells dizzy, gets sick to her stomach and sometimes completely blacks out.  Her friends are aware that it might happen so they watch her quite well.  Her eys roll to the back of her head and she goes completly limp.  Please tell me if anyone has every experienced this and might know where I can start.