Did you ever faint?

wesf · 18-03-2013 01:35AM

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 · 18-03-2013 01:39AM

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 · 18-03-2013 01:40AM

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 · 18-03-2013 01:42AM

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 · 18-03-2013 01:43AM

Dwork wrote: »

rumpled rug?

would have been more manly than simply fainting i suppose

tomboylady · 18-03-2013 01:49AM

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 · 18-03-2013 01:52AM

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

Richard Dower · 18-03-2013 02:00AM

never fainted in 40 years or broke a bone.

Ice Storm · 18-03-2013 02:00AM

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 · 18-03-2013 02:01AM

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 · 18-03-2013 02:06AM

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 · 18-03-2013 02:07AM

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

Ice Storm · 18-03-2013 02:13AM

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 · 18-03-2013 02:13AM

I fainted before, wish I wore pants that day.

kfallon · 18-03-2013 02:19AM

zerks wrote: »

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

Poetry in motion!

liliq · 18-03-2013 02:20AM

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 · 18-03-2013 02:27AM

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 · 18-03-2013 02:29AM

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 · 18-03-2013 02:30AM

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

Chuck Stone · 18-03-2013 02:35AM

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

SHe said buy something now, or leave.

What a horrible bitch.

humbert · 18-03-2013 02:45AM

Feinted a few times.

Recently lying on the couch re-watching the X Files, the one where Scully is abducted, I leapt up to go to the toilet and while finishing up I started to feel very sick. Came to on a cold hard floor in the dark (I'd fallen against the door closing it blocking out the hall light) staring up at a dim glow(only light was from a nearby house through the frosted glass in a tiny window above the toilet). For the ~10 seconds it took to remember who and where I was it was very very surreal.

DazMarz · 18-03-2013 03:05AM

Happened to me in school when I was 18. Was one of the last classes of the day, it was a roasting hot September afternoon, I'd had nothing to eat or drink all day. Basically, I remember looking over at my friend's textbook that was on the desk next to mine, and the words on the front of the book started swimming up towards my face. My last thought was, "Well, that's funny!"

However long later, I'm sitting completely disorientated and my principal and the teacher and some students are all standing around looking at me, "Daz, are you there/awake/ok?".

Next thing, two paramedics arrive in, put me in a wheelchair thing and I'm whisked off to hospital. CAT-scans, chest x-rays and endless other tests done. This was around the time a lot of young guys were dropping dead on sports fields and stuff, so they were very cautious about this.

More tests, and I'm found to be dehydrated, my sodium, potassium and loads of other levels are really low. I'm given a lecture about being sure to eat and drink during the day. One of my doctors said, "It's either nothing or it's a mini-stroke." Well, that cheered me right up. Fúcking bedside manner??? Can imagine him talking to female patients: "Sorry, love, it's cancer. Your tit'll have to come off." Fúck sake.

Had to go for MRI's and EEG-scans (horrible yokes they are) over the next weeks... only to find nothing. So it was all good, but a bit freaky all the same. Was put off the road for a year thanks to it too. Shíte that was.

cruais · 18-03-2013 03:45AM

Yep, could feel myself falling forward towards a wall, so I out my arm out to protect my face and head and it resulted a dislocated shoulder and broken arm...ouch!

Novella · 18-03-2013 04:31AM

I fainted when I had a cast taken off my arm years ago. I think that's the only time.

My brother faints quite a lot. Apparently he has low blood pressure because he's fit but yeah, faints a few times a year!

Sarky · 18-03-2013 04:49AM

I was strangled into unconsciousness by a vengeful classmate when I was a kid, more or less the same as fainting. Well, a bit more bruising round the neck, but that's neither here nor there. It remains one of the weirdest experiences of my life.

cruais · 18-03-2013 04:56AM

Does anyone remember the American dream faze a few years ago? Holding your breath until you fainted?!? Never did it, was always to scared!

Jimoslimos · 18-03-2013 05:36AM

I have before when receiving an immunisation jab.

Strange because I have no fear of needles/injections. Some sort of vasovagal reaction I think.

bnt · 18-03-2013 09:37AM

Back in school, a bunch of us kids learned how to make ourselves faint. It goes like this:

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You feel like utter crap afterwards, so we didn't do it all that much - but it worked.

PS: why are some folks spelling the word with an "e"? A feint is something you do in a sword fight ...

Probably best not to tell people how to make themselves faint

Wibbs · 18-03-2013 10:49AM

Woman faint, real men pass out or collapse goddammit!!

but no, touch wood hasn't happened to me. Must be bloody scary.

xzanti · 18-03-2013 11:01AM

Spunge wrote: »

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.

Well I hope you learned your lesson now.

Always eat breakfast.

Did you ever faint?

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