Recently I have been having more frequent episodes of nearly passing out. I can feel it coming on. It starts with a fuzzy and lightheaded feeling in my head, which spreads to my face, arms, fingers, shoulders. I then feel a rush of warmth and tingling spread from my head to toes (this I can feel progressing). I have to focus very hard on staying conscious. I feel if I stop fighting it I will faint. This happened three times in a half hour period a few nights ago, and then a couple days later it happened at work, where my boss drove me to the ER. They did blood work and nothing came back, except a slightly elevated blood level on a test that he said could indicate anything from allergies to a heart attack. He seemed to be leaning towards wanting me to get a MRI, but couldn't find anything at that point that would warrant ordering one. I have an appointment with my family physician on Monday.
About a year and a half ago I was in the emergency room with the same thing and then they attributed it to stress. At that point I was terribly stressed with my job, but have since moved on to a job that I love.
I am 35 years old, not overweight and don't feel terribly stressed.
Needless to say I am concerned about this because it seems that it can happen at any time,whether sitting, standing or lying down. I don't want this to happen while I'm driving and take the chance that I actually pass out behind the wheel with my little girl in the car with me!!!
After I have these "episodes" I feel really spacy and fuzzy for about 30-60 minutes. When I had one at work my boss, as soon as she looked at me could tell something was wrong. She described it as a dazed look in my eyes and said I seemed kind of “slow”.