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I had a blackout.
I'd just got out the bath when I started feeling really sick. So I was standing over the toilet, trying to wrench, when suddenly I lost all power in my body and had to sit on the side of the bath.
That's the last thing I remember before I woke up in the bottom of the bath. Luckily I'd already drained the water, otherwise, well - y'know...
So I staggered out the bathroom, soaking wet and in a towel and collapsed again on my bed. It really shook me up - nothing like that has ever happened before. I told my Dad when I'd got over the worst of it and he called the hospital...who sent and ambulance - flashing lights and everything! I wasn't even feeling that bad at this point, but I wasn't sure if it was a blackout or a fit. I felt my head and legs swinging about uncontrolably as I came to, so for all I know I'd gone all Deacon on your bootys.
Anyway, hospital said it was a "Simple Faint". i.e, I was a pansy who got up too quickly. Really chuffing scary though.
I'd just got out the bath when I started feeling really sick. So I was standing over the toilet, trying to wrench, when suddenly I lost all power in my body and had to sit on the side of the bath.
That's the last thing I remember before I woke up in the bottom of the bath. Luckily I'd already drained the water, otherwise, well - y'know...
So I staggered out the bathroom, soaking wet and in a towel and collapsed again on my bed. It really shook me up - nothing like that has ever happened before. I told my Dad when I'd got over the worst of it and he called the hospital...who sent and ambulance - flashing lights and everything! I wasn't even feeling that bad at this point, but I wasn't sure if it was a blackout or a fit. I felt my head and legs swinging about uncontrolably as I came to, so for all I know I'd gone all Deacon on your bootys.
Anyway, hospital said it was a "Simple Faint". i.e, I was a pansy who got up too quickly. Really chuffing scary though.
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Mr Snuggly wrote:
> You spack.
Careful, or I'll "time travel" back to 1994 - on the bus to Chessington!
> You spack.
Careful, or I'll "time travel" back to 1994 - on the bus to Chessington!
This happened to me before in a Petrol station, lots of alcohol and zero sleep the night before. Started feeling woosy, next thing I know I'm sitting outside on the floor and my mates are crowding round me asking if I'm alright.
Scary but kind of enjoyable at the same time.
Scary but kind of enjoyable at the same time.
You spack.
nothing unusual. it's happened to me a few times. Well, I haven't blacked out, but i get the general feeling. it's a previsor of oxygen depravation really.
the dizzyness you get when you get up to quickly is much as you'd feel like a few moments before you drowned. Then the oxygen comes rushing, and it's overload time.
what a rush.
the dizzyness you get when you get up to quickly is much as you'd feel like a few moments before you drowned. Then the oxygen comes rushing, and it's overload time.
what a rush.
I see it as my very own theme-park ride I dont have to queue for or share.
Stand up real fast and see if you can get to the bed before darkness envelops you.
It rules.
Stand up real fast and see if you can get to the bed before darkness envelops you.
It rules.
The official explanation the doc gave me was that when you lie down your blood evens out all over your body. Getting up quickly means your heart has to pump blood quicker than normal to get to your brain - thus causing a faint!
Stupid heart
*punches heart*
Ow, my heart...
Hot baths don't help because they cause your veins to expand and the blood to even out quicker.
Stupid heart
*punches heart*
Ow, my heart...
Hot baths don't help because they cause your veins to expand and the blood to even out quicker.
I get this a lot.
Hot bath, get out and get dizzy.
It rules.
It's just temperature change and immediate body cooling. Gives you a headrush. You'll learn to enjoy it.
Hot bath, get out and get dizzy.
It rules.
It's just temperature change and immediate body cooling. Gives you a headrush. You'll learn to enjoy it.
Ouch, doesn't sound good.
I've had somewhat similar things happed to me, fortunately not quite that serious, no ambulances unless i break something in the fall. Likewise i'm fit, healthy, blah. The doctor has dismissed it without offering an explanation, but frankly i don't trust him at all, he's done the same thing before only to later be shown as having screwed up. Changed my gp now though, might ask the new guy if it starts again...
Anyway, i digress.
Yeah, bad stuff. Only happened the once then? Hmm, might want to be cautious for a while, just the next month or two, keep in mind that it *could* happen, until you can be fairly sure that this wasn't the first of many. I found sometimes you can tell when it's about to happen, and should be able to do something to prevent/minimise any damage.
Hope it isn't serious in the long term.
I've had somewhat similar things happed to me, fortunately not quite that serious, no ambulances unless i break something in the fall. Likewise i'm fit, healthy, blah. The doctor has dismissed it without offering an explanation, but frankly i don't trust him at all, he's done the same thing before only to later be shown as having screwed up. Changed my gp now though, might ask the new guy if it starts again...
Anyway, i digress.
Yeah, bad stuff. Only happened the once then? Hmm, might want to be cautious for a while, just the next month or two, keep in mind that it *could* happen, until you can be fairly sure that this wasn't the first of many. I found sometimes you can tell when it's about to happen, and should be able to do something to prevent/minimise any damage.
Hope it isn't serious in the long term.
monkey_man wrote:
> Yeah.
>
> It sucks though. I'm a perfectly healthy 21 year old male.
> 6'2", 11.5 stone, athletic (if geeky) build, no health problems,
> allergies or history of illness, blood pressure and blood-oxygen
> levels are spot-on. But if I get up too quickly from a hot bath -
> WHAM! - it hits me. Could happen to anyone, I suppose.
Its the fact that your fit and healthly is whats worrying. Mabye it is normal to feel wierd going out of a hot bath quick, i dont know i havent took a bath in years, i shower
> Yeah.
>
> It sucks though. I'm a perfectly healthy 21 year old male.
> 6'2", 11.5 stone, athletic (if geeky) build, no health problems,
> allergies or history of illness, blood pressure and blood-oxygen
> levels are spot-on. But if I get up too quickly from a hot bath -
> WHAM! - it hits me. Could happen to anyone, I suppose.
Its the fact that your fit and healthly is whats worrying. Mabye it is normal to feel wierd going out of a hot bath quick, i dont know i havent took a bath in years, i shower
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