Did you ever faint?

Chuck Stone

I nearly fainted when an anaesthetist stuck a need into my lower back and got it wrong the first time and had to do it again. Very close to tipping over on the surgical table (you sit up for the injection), the surgery nurses propped me up as I began to topple.

Y'all?

Zyzz

feint.

Cantona's Collars

I approached the 'keeper, feinted to shoot,went round him and rolled the ball into the goal.

Pushtrak

I'm not a swordsman, no.

Dwork

We never feinted, we "sold em a dummy".

Never fainted, that is for laaayyyddees. Got knocked out once or twice though. Only briefly, but it's not all it's cracked out to be. How did the Op turn out? You better?

Need A User Name

Yes I have fainted before very strange feeling indeed.

Play To Kill

Feinted?

Chuck Stone

Soryy for the spelling. I'm drinking beer.

Maybe a kind hearted mod could save me from the crushing embarrassment of it all?

Magill

I think i was close to fainting in the shower after a workout last week... would have been embarrassing !

Chuck Stone

Dwork wrote: »

How did the Op turn out? You better?

Ah yeah. Got my Achilles tendon stitched back together. It was creepy feeling paralysed from the waist down though (and the bastards didn't tell me the very last thing that gets the feeling back is the old meat and two veg - scared the bejaysus out of me).

foxinsox

I fainted/passed out while on the loo in A&E, split my eyebrow open on the sink!

Oh what fun was had that night!


Disclaimer:
Yes, I had finished peeing.
No, there wasn't alcohol involved.
Yes, I have a scar.

B.A._Baracus

Yup. I only fainted once but it was freaky.
Was smoking fake john player cigerettes a few years ago. Was in the kitchen by the sink, felt myself go and I just hit the deck. Can only describe it as switching off the lights then switching them back on. Broke out in a weird sweat afterwards.

Lesson learned: don't smoke fake cigerettes people (No brainer tho)

For Forks Sake

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Maybe a kind hearted mod could save me from the crushing embarrassment of it all?

No, you're going to stay here and take all the abuse that's coming to you.

Dwork

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Ah yeah. Got my Achilles tendon stitched back together. It was creepy feeling paralysed from the waist down though (and the bastards didn't tell me the very last thing that gets the feeling back is the old meat and two veg - scared the bejaysus out of me).

If what you got was an epideural, a lad I work with(who is a tough bugger) got one and said it was the worst thing(pain) he ever went through. I now have waay more respect for women who put up with getting one for childbirth. Leaving aside the whole "watermelon through a letterbox aspect".

Spunge

Middle of an australian pink floyd gig after drinking beer and smoking a spliff.
Middle of a radiohead gig after drinking beer and smoking a spliff.
Middle of church after not eating breakfast.

amacca

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Soryy for the spelling. I'm drinking beer.

Maybe a kind hearted mod could save me from the crushing embarrassment of it all?

No need to be embarrassed....these people should be ashamed of themselves and their small minded spelling exactivism

carry on

Larianne

I fainted once in the school yard. We'd gone to the library earlier in the morning and I hadn't eaten so I think that was why.

I also fainted on stage during rehersal at the National Concert Hall when I was in the National Children's Choir. I was suffering from heat rash at the time so I think it was all a bit too much for me.

I've nearly fainted when I was in church when I was a teenager. I walked to mass, by myself, really early in the morning and everthing started to go black. I had a feeling I was going to faint so managed to make my way outside and this cleared the blackness (I had also not eaten that morning).

I also nearly fainted last year when I was observing hip surgery. Was all going grand till the surgeon cut into the hip and a rake of blood shot up out of the hip! Luckily I knew it was coming over me and I left the theatre. (this was early in the morning and I hadn't eaten).

It's a good thing to know the feeling of 'about to' faint. Can save a lot of embarrassment.
So, I always try to eat breakfast!

LizT

I've never fainted, only came close once but someone saw me and sat me down and told me to put my head between my legs :P

I was in a hospital at the time so I suppose it would have happened in the best place.

Gee_G

Dwork wrote: »

If what you got was an epideural, a lad I work with(who is a tough bugger) got one and said it was the worst thing(pain) he ever went through. I now have waay more respect for women who put up with getting one for childbirth. Leaving aside the whole "watermelon through a letterbox aspect".

Your friends a wuss its really not bad getting an epidural at all!

Nope never fainted!

Rayne Wooney

Never fainted before, I'd say it's a strange experience.

allthedoyles

Once at mass when I was about 16 -

pragmatic1

Came close to it just before my appendix burst. Mega pain.

Miss Lockhart

I've fainted twice. Once after giving blood and once just randomly after walking upstairs. First time was preceded by nausea and a cold sweat. Second one was preceded by a deafening buzzing and ringing sound in my ears. It's a horrible experience.

zef

At age 12 singing in the small choir at mass beside the altar- about 300 people looking at me, I start feeling weird and floaty and bang, just hit the deck. I think this was from standing still in the one spot for a 'nice long mass'.
At 15 in Biology class they were dissecting a rabbit, told by the teacher to come up and look with the rest of the class, fainted again. She knew my stance on it and made me look!
Then OH fainted when watching 1st baby being born
My last faint was after a traffic accident in Phibsboro 10 years ago, I was passenger in a taxi that was concertina-d from behind. Pretty boring , that one.

Getting KO'ed is worse than fainting by a long shot. Ya literally see the 'birdies' not to mention possible damage to y'self. Gimme a common or garden faint anyday.

stretchdoe

amacca wrote: »

No need to be embarrassed....these people should be ashamed of themselves and their small minded spelling exactivism

carry on

I agree.

They're just faigning interest in this thread.

damagegt

3ndahalfof6

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

I've fainted twice. Once after giving blood and once just randomly after walking upstairs. First time was preceded by nausea and a cold sweat. Second one was preceded by a deafening buzzing and ringing sound in my ears. It's a horrible experience.

I did the same, gave blood stood up and went back down just as quick, same feeling to when I came round,

I would be guessing it is a similar feeling just before you kick the bucket.

Czarcasm

Knocked myself out once rummaging for a toilet block thing in the press under the kitchen sink, I was coming back up and misjudged my exit, bang, came round a couple of hours later, no bruise or anything, so just got up off the floor and dusted myself off, checked all my bits were in the right places- carry on.

Savage Tyrant

Fainted once in the doctors.
I was to fast from, I think 9pm the previous night for a bloods to be taken.
For some reason though I missed dinner and ended up fasting since lunch then about 1 or 2 in the afternoon. I was starving but didn't think it would be that big a deal. Get the blood taken and pop round to a cafe for a full Irish.
I had 5 vials of blood taken, and was just sitting there holding the little cotton wool thing to my arm when I felt my lips tingling.
Woke up a few seconds later with the nurses calling me and trying to bring me round. Very disorientating, I wasn't sure where I was or what happened. For some reason the first thing that popped into my head was that I was being arrested, possibly due to the shouting and feeling I was surrounded.
Took a few minutes to get my bearings back. Not a nice feeling at all.

3ndahalfof6

Czarcasm wrote: »

Knocked myself out once rummaging for a toilet block thing in the press under the kitchen sink, I was coming back up and misjudged my exit, bang, came round a couple of hours later, no bruise or anything, so just got up off the floor and dusted myself off, checked all my bits were in the right places- carry on.

So you really fell asleep on the job :pac:

Chuck Stone

Dwork wrote: »

If what you got was an epideural,

Gee_G wrote: »

Your friends a wuss its really not bad getting an epidural at all!

Afaia an epidural is different because complete paralysis is not the desired goal when giving birth.

Maybe the delivery method is the same though? Maybe a medical person can set us straight on the matter.


(Thanks for the spelling correction in the title mod)

wesf

I was 12, fell off my bike and cut my head, made it to the doctor, he stitched me up without anaesthetic, which i made it through no problem strangely enough, went out to the reception desk, next thing i know i'm looking up at my mam, the doc and the receptionist!

Chuck Stone

I just remembered a stupid 'game' we used to play when we were young'uns.

Hyperventilating and then inducing fainting by popping your ears.

Dumb idiots we were. Twas weird 'waking up' with a load of people laughing at you.

Don't try this at home wee'uns.

Dwork

wesf wrote: »

I was 12, fell off my bike and cut my head, made it to the doctor, he stiched me up without anaesthetic, which i made it through no problem strangely enough, went out to the reception desk, next thing i know i'm looking up at my mam, the doc and the receptionist!

rumpled rug?

irish son

Myself and my friends used to do 'The American Dream' on each other when we were young and dumb(er). I've never fainted naturally though.

wesf

Dwork wrote: »

rumpled rug?

would have been more manly than simply fainting i suppose

tomboylady

When I was about 15 I was in hospital for a few weeks and confined to bed. When I was finally allowed out of bed I was so excited to go to the bathroom and brush my teeth at the sink. Next thing I knew I was back in bed, covered in blood, with a huge gash on my forehead.

Apparently the bang when I hit my head on the sink was so loud the nurse heard it down the corridor and came running.

Jijsaw

Almost in mass a couple of times, heat really gets to me

Richard Dower

never fainted in 40 years or broke a bone.

Ice Storm

I don't remember ever actually fainting but I did have a strange experience once where reckon I came pretty close.

It happens occasionally when I stand up too quickly that I get lightheaded and things start to go black. I think this is fairly common and it clears after a few seconds.

Well once this happened when I was in the middle of a busy shopping centre, otherwise feeling ok. I began to 'black out' - blackness at the edges of my vision that began to close in.

But it didn't clear and the blackness continued to close in until I couldn't see anything! My eyes were open, I could literally see nothing, just darkness, but I didn't faint or even feel close to it.

I felt very vulnerable in this busy place, unable to see. I'd stopped walking and luckily my mum who'd been walking ahead noticed something was wrong and came back for me.

"I'm blind!", I told her, and she helped me into the toilets, me clinging to her in the darkness. I sat down, put my head between my knees and slowly the blackness cleared and my vision went back to normal.

So I blacked out for a few minutes but the fainting part didn't happen. It was the strangest thing. Nothing like that has ever happened me since, I'm pleased to say.

miralize

A few times, I mustve something really wrong with me.

A few I remember I was sitting down on an office chair (at home), when suddenly I was on the floor, dazed out of my mind. No alcohol consumed, just a random faint...

Second time was a bit more embarrasing. In secondary school, we were messing around before the teacher came, and a guy threw a set square at my face. I was bleeding a bit so I asked the teacher if I could go to the bathroom to wash up. She thought it was just me trying to fob off, so she said no and I sat down. Again, next thing I knew I was on the floor in a heap. I went absolutely pale and weak for the next hour or so.

Truncheon Rouge

Im passing out just reading this...burst appendixes, needles in the back, letterbox vaginas, toilet blocks.



(huh spellcheck on vaginas is vaginae, learn somet everyday)

ejmaztec

I fainted once after 12 pints of lager and 3 or 4, (or was it 5 or 6) whiskeys.

Ice Storm

A lot of people nearly fainting in mass!

My dad nearly did during my confirmation when he was my sponsor. We saw him returning from communion looking very green; he walked straight past his seat and out of the church.

He returned a while later and didn't cause me any embarrassment - my main concern at that age.

Ihatecuddles-old

I fainted before, wish I wore pants that day.

kfallon

zerks wrote: »

I approached the 'keeper, feinted to shoot,went round him and rolled the ball into the goal.

Poetry in motion!

liliq

Ice Storm wrote: »

A lot of people nearly fainting in mass)

Moral of the story: Don't go to mass

I fainted once when I was modelling for a leaving cert art exam, was just standing in a hot stuffy room for too long.
I fainted a couple of times when I was pregnant, a combination of blood sugars and blood pressure dropping kicked my ass.

I got knocked out at witness, now oxegen, when someone that was crowd surfing booted me in the back of the head.

Ihatecuddles-old

liliq wrote: »

Moral of the story: Don't go to mass

I fainted once when I was modelling for a leaving cert art exam, was just standing in a hot stuffy room for too long.
I fainted a couple of times when I was pregnant, a combination of blood sugars and blood pressure dropping kicked my ass.

I got knocked out at witness, now oxegen, when someone that was crowd surfing booted me in the back of the head.

I was in cafe when I was 8 months pregnant, sat down because I wasn't feeling great. A member of staff came over and said I had to buy something or leave, I told them I would, but just needed to sit for a minute. SHe said buy something now, or leave.
So I stood up.
Everything went black and I felt my way over to the till, asked for tea and as soon as she turned around I knew I was gone.
She called an ambulance and I woke up with a paramedic asking what happened. I said that bitch made me get up and I hit the deck

Reiketsu

I think I almost fainted once. I'm not even sure why. I felt unwell so made my way to the bathroom, on the way back out (hadn't been sick or anything) I had this mad buzzing/ringing in my ears, my vision had gone funny and it felt like the room was tilting to the side. Managed to make it into the living room and onto the sofa and lay there for a good 15 minutes. It was horrible!

irish son

Shame on you people, pretending to faint just to get out of mass :mad:

Chuck Stone

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

SHe said buy something now, or leave.

What a horrible bitch.