Did you ever faint?

18-03-2013 11:17AM

Did one day when I got random tummy pains and had to queue for a bus in heat for ages, collapsed then
Pretty much fainted after giving blood as I was weak :pac:
And one time when I got up out of bed too quickly, years and years ago

wexie · 18-03-2013 11:27AM

Many times when I was younger, some kind of salt deficiency combined with massive growth spurts and severe dizzyness. Luckily nothing worse than a good few bruises.

Thankfully I've stopped growing quite a while ago.

I do have a small scar on my eye from falling in the bathroom and bouncing off the door handle, that wasn;t fainting though, that was whiskey and ganja induced passing out.

Aidric · 18-03-2013 11:30AM

Yes, once during a visit to the chiropodist as a teenager. She was rooting pretty hard on a troublesome verruca. I looked down and saw blood flowing out of it and that was it, lights out.

Got a half day from school so every cloud etc.

Gillo · 18-03-2013 11:33AM

Never
I came close to it a few times, got very weak and disoriented but just sat down with my head between my legs. I also got a nasty shot direct to the head while boxing last year and fiarly unstable after it so I guess I came close to it then. On the up side, it gave me to motivation to go for glory for the rest of the match (ie, trying to save face and look like I actually knew what I was doing).

cherryghost · 18-03-2013 11:45AM

I've fainted multiple times...

Earliest I can remember is the doctor was taking blood tests, walked out fine and dandy and fainted halfway down a stairs. Woke up in the waiting room, head covered in blood, didn't have a clue what was going on.

I've fainted twice from food poisoning, one particularly bad in Crete, was shaking for about 3 hours after.

I've fainted shortly after getting vaccine shots taken. Got into the car and apparently as I fainted I stood up in the car, body frozen stiff. Woke up in a sweat and everyone panicking around me.

Similar situation happened when I got something to alleviate pain for a toothache to keep me going through the weekend. Got into the car and body stiffened up.

Have also fainted from lack of sleep. Had sleeping problems a few years back and I have very disturbing memories of passing out in the bathroom getting ready for work.

Fainting is horrible. I hate it so much, you feel so confused and out of place when you get up, and you really don't know what happened, or how long you were out for.

xLexie · 18-03-2013 11:48AM

Happened a few times after I gave blood.
During a boxercise class, the shame.
Most recently, because I've got tachycardia, which puts me flat out like an egg on a pan.
got low blood pressure so I feel faint a lot.

cherryghost · 18-03-2013 12:00PM

xLexie wrote: »

Happened a few times after I gave blood.
During a boxercise class, the shame.
Most recently, because I've got tachycardia, which puts me flat out like an egg on a pan.
got low blood pressure so I feel faint a lot.

Ouch, sorry to hear. I'm sure it affects your everyday life so. I thought I was bad

Rasheed · 18-03-2013 12:01PM

Once when I was about 5. I was walking through the yard eating an apple and a hen flew up in my face to pick at the apple. I passed out with the terror of it into a fresh pile of cattle shiite!

Ginny · 18-03-2013 12:25PM

I used to faint nearly every month as a teenager, O&A slo faint when getting blood taken, I always warn the nurse, no one every believes me, and I usually can tell them as I'm going under. All of a sudden it will sound like I'm under water and then black will creep in from my perhipial vision and I usually wake with them having flipped the chair back to get blood back up to my head.

anncoates · 18-03-2013 12:29PM

Once as a kid when I broke my ankle and once also fainted on the luas at rush hour which was embarrassing.

18-03-2013 12:53PM

I used to faint very regularly, ended up being admitted to hospital as a teen because of it. I was seriously anaemic and had low blood pressure. Continued right into adulthood. Scary enough, sometimes I blacked out, but not always. The worst time in happened was on O Connell street in Dublin. Woke up surrounded by people asking me was I ok and being lifted in an ambulance to the mater hospital!

Starscream25 · 18-03-2013 01:00PM

Never fainted as such but had a bad head rush once where i stood up suddenly and collapsed to the floor, next thing i know i have all my family around screaming are you ok at me, my mum was almost in tears. usually whenever i have experienced one of those 'head rushes' it just takes a few seconds to gather myself before i go on my merry way.

michellie · 18-03-2013 01:04PM

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".

I can't really remember my epidural being painful, probably because I was in so much pain with the contractions and what not.

I've never fainted !:)

Pumpkinseeds · 18-03-2013 01:04PM

I fainted once whilst waiting for a bus. I'd felt a bit cranky that day for no apparent reason so it might have been something to do with my blood sugar. I didn't know what happened, my husband said my eyes just rolled up in my head,and he grabbed me as I fell. I have epilepsy so he thought I might have been about to have a seizure.

All I remember is waking up on my back in the mud. Very embarassing. There were a few tourists that came along afterwards to the bus stop and were giving us some very strange looks:o

justsmile · 18-03-2013 01:43PM

I fainted twice before!

Once when i was younger and was an altar server. Hit the deck in the middle of mass, the priest told someone to come up and help me an continued with the mass. Funnily enough the local undertaker was the first person I saw when i opened my eyes, he was sitting up the front of mass so came to my aid :eek:

The second time was when i was in a supermarket by myself. Embarrasing enough too

Pudders · 18-03-2013 02:46PM

I fainted last week. Have had bronchitis for weeks and last week was sitting down, started gasping for breath. Next I know I am face down on the floor thinking I am swimming in water. My OH starts shouting at me and I look up. I had no idea what happened. Supposedly I stood up and hit the floor curled up in a ball.

Acciaccatura · 18-03-2013 03:37PM

Never fainted before, but came quite close to it a few times. Once in second class when I was dehydrated after PE, the room started spinning but I didn't keel over. Then the year before last I was diagnosed with tachycardia, nothing serious, but from time to time it's given me a few near misses at school with blood rushing to my head. Doctor just said I'll grow out of it, and it's not a bad case of it, so I'm not worried, the worst I've ever needed was an ultrasound and an ECG, not even a heart monitor, so I'm grand, no worries :P

McChubbin · 18-03-2013 05:17PM

Walked into a lampost once. Knocked myself out cold for about 30 seconds or so...

Ann22 · 18-03-2013 05:52PM

Fainted out cold once when I was 15 during mass. I'd been having a monthly that had lasted for about 7 wks. Dunno how I didn't die

. Was kneeling minding my own business when I started to feel a bit sick, my vision started to dim and the priest's voice seemed to be coming from miles away. Next thing I knew a strange woman's face was spinning round in front of me...I screamed my head off before i realised where I was, the church was packed with open mouthed nosy faces. My sister had thought I'd been falling asleep on her shoulder, gave me a nudge and to her horror she saw my eyes were rolling and I was drooling:o.

Many other times I've nearly passed out but saved myself by putting my head between my knees.

Miike · 18-03-2013 06:00PM

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

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)

This exact thing happened me! I was just left for goo on the kitchen floor while my mate split her side laughing at me.

gidget · 18-03-2013 06:07PM

Twice
First time when i was about 17, had to have a blood test in the hospital, first time i ever had it done, needle goes in, took one look at the blood coming out of my arm & keeled over.

Second time was about 3 years ago was at home watching tv & felt a little sick so got up to get a glass of water, next thing i was on the floor being shaking by my dad. My bro who had been in the next room had heard the bang of me hitting the floor & came in to see me outcold on the floor & had run to get my dad for help. That time it felt like i was being woken up out of a sleep really.

Augmerson · 18-03-2013 06:14PM

I was bitten by a Prairie Dog at Dublin zoo once (yes) and I fainted in the Medical Station. I was not good with seeing a lot of blood at that age and also I have low blood pressure and I hadn't eaten much by that time of day. So I fainted. I remember when I went down and things went black, I saw a tv image of a Ambulance with its sirens on rushing towards me on a street close up, and then the image scrambled.

Don't pet Prairie Dog's.

meoklmrk91 · 18-03-2013 06:21PM

I have fainted or nearly fainted many times, the most embarressing was when I was in college doing a practical exam, the guy I was doing it with was concentrating on something and not looking at me, I told him I had to go sit down, he looked up at me and turned white as a ghost before calling the tutor, my lips had turned blue, not for the first time either.

I ended up in hospital over it as my pulse had dropped really low but by the time I got in there I was back to normal and the Doc treated me like crap and insinuated that I was faking. My GP seems very unworried about it as well. It's annoying because at the very least my lips turn blue and at worst my pulse drops and I faint on a pretty regular enough basis, once every month to 2 months.

cuana · 18-03-2013 06:37PM

Twice!

After been giving pain medication in hospital which didn't suit me I fell ending up with a dirty black eye

I got home collapsed onto my sisters kitchen counter top woke up with my face stuck to the counter! that was a strange one as I remember my eyes rolling around in my head and vaguely remember shaking while lying on top of counter really weird experience I thought in my groggy state after that I didn't think I fainted but had some kind of fit I'll never know

Teyla Emmagan · 18-03-2013 06:40PM

Loads of times. They were always finding me in school with my hair sticking out from under the loo door.

Apparently a very high number of people also have heart attacks in the jacks, it's common to withdraw to somewhere quiet when you're feeling sick. And of course, that's how you're more likely to end up dying.

beano345 · 18-03-2013 06:42PM

only last week i dont even remember,just woke up to my flatmate picking me up and saying oh jazuz!! your going to need a stitch in that!

Leinsterr · 18-03-2013 07:08PM

Fainted after finishing my fifth set of squats today.

Did you ever faint?

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