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!  

[jesslynn755]

Im 13, and now Im so glad I know Im not alone in this, Ive been to the emergency room 2 with this and to the doctor 21 times with this. First I can be laying down and I stand up, then the dizzyness starts and then right after that I get black outs thats like Im seeing though a straw and sometimes not ever that and then a rush of pain shoots up in my head and pain strains in my eyes. No one can tell me what it is so if your reading this PLEASE HELP Im so sick of the pain this has been going on about 5 or 6 times a day maybe more for about 4 years now. :(

[Kellyscott]

I was in Iraq when I was wounded and I have the same syptoms plus other problems. I am going to a poly-trauma center to see if they can fiqure out what is going on. Two days ago at the gym I work-out at I was dizzy then black out, seems to happen on different times but blacking out at the gym was the sraw that broke the back.

Captain Parrson

[Maddie_momo]

I am a 15 year old girl and I hav those same symptoms!! I dont kno why tho :/ help plz

[manus815]

Hi,

I have been facing this problem since childhood. There is an increase in the heartbeat first and then some continuous beep in the year followed by a black out and falling down. After a few seconds or maybe minutes I wake up feeling a bit cold full of sweat and I feel light headed with a very little ackword relaxing pain in the back of the neck. Please suggest what is the erason for it and what actually is this !!?? Any recommendations or remidies would be appriciated.

[cheli_bear]

I am 20, since I was a kid I've had crazy migraines. Today was different though... i was driving, I thought that it was gettting kindod gloomy out but no one else thought so... about 30 mins later i actully blacked out... while driving. luckily i pulled over safely. after came a very terrible headache, took some excedrine but not much help. the migraine calmed but has flarred back up ahain. any inpt? &excuse the grammr and misplelings, im doin my best right now.

[squirtatious]

Has he had an mri of the brain to rule out chiari malformation?