Anybody here ever fainted??
BreakSelf
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I fainted at the hospital yesterday during my chemo. First time in my life. Shit was crazy. All of a sudden I started to sweat, then my vision started to blur, and pretty soon it was lights out. It took close to 20 seconds to revive me. My mom, of course, freaked out, and the nurse said she was 2 seconds away from pulling the plug on my IV and ringing the alarm like Tenor Saw. Anybody else ever faint?
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My grandma had hand surgery recently. I had to drive her to get the stitches cleaned up and the bandage removed. Either my grandma or the doctor asked me if that kind of stuff made me feel funny and I said no, because normally it doesn't. For some reason when I saw her hand and saw him cleaning it up I just got all flushed. I started feeling like I was going to faint. Everything went black and I was sweating bullets. My entire body was soaking. I couldn't see anything, but was embarrassed and felt around for a chair that I knew was nearby. It all happened so fast too.
hope you are feeling better though homie! get some sugar in your system...mmm..delicious sugar
They sat me down, stuck the needle in my arm and the whole time I was looking the other way, trying not to think about it. Things were fine until I stood up and caught a glance of the 2 containers full of blood. The test was held in a big conference room and I was at the opposite end to the door, as I started to walk my temperature rapidly rose and I felt that ever so awkward feeling of being light headed and my vision started to blur. I thought if I grab a complementary orange juice it might stabilise me so I walk into the nearby kitchen down it quickly and try to make it to the lifts to get outside and get some fresh air.
As soon as I reached the centre of the hallway my vision went completely blank I remember someone coming up to and asking if I was alright??????.
???..then suddenly I wake up slumped next to the corridor wall surrounded by the doctor and nurses and whole bunch of other people. This was the meeting room level of the building and it was just on the hour so everybody was either coming out or going to meetings. It took me about 30 seconds to realise what was going on.
Fainting was like being in deep sleep, I was dreaming about something simple like my bed and then BANG I wake up in a hallway at work, in my office clothes surrounded by people. It???s the strangest feeling.
As I fell I bit a big hole through my lip and experienced some mild concussion. I fainted once more after they sat me down.
As you can imagine I was massively embarrassed, but at least I got the afternoon off from work.
I fainted once when I was 17 after some all night raver binge. I remember being out in the street, smoking, maybe drinking, and I think even trying to play frisbee or something. For a few seconds my vision felt like I was going through an eclipse and then I remember the ground coming at the side of my face and doing some sort of stumble to break my fall and then people saying woah are you OK?
Ever since then, I am f*cking traumatized every time i give blood. I insist I lay down for like 5 minutes after my blood is taken, just in case. Scarred for life!
P.S. Slightly off topic, but I was so nervous that I developed a mild fever that night while waiting for the results. The mind is a powerful f*cking thing man. And thankfully the next day, the results were fine, and I cried like a bitch out of joy.
Fortunately, the condition seems to have passed long ago.
Wow, see my above post when I mention catching a mild fever. That's all mental. It is crazy how powerful your mind is.
Once when my first son was born. That shit was major! My sister in-law had to tell me to sit down after she saw my head moving in a circle like a cartoon.
The other time was when I saw Herm naked. Ay dios mio!
I told you not to squint so hard.
If this happened at the same party as RAJ's story then this website just got a lot more interesting...
Yep, I agree. I was stuck in that shit for awhile. I couldn't even watch needles being injected on tv...which was weird as hell because my problem started with mushrooms, not injecting anything. I never really understood the connection. Obviously, it was all drug-related activity...but I kept eliminating things from my repertoire to the point that just seeing people getting fucked up on a movie screen would flip me out?
Seriously, that one mushroom trip must of stuck with me one way or another for about 5 years. I had done plenty of mushrooms before that one time without any problems whatsoever. But I guess I had never done mushrooms from Thailand. I ate 2 grams at once during the day and was just hanging out at my house with a couple of friends. I had just broken up with a longtime girlfriend and I guess I was in a transitory emotional state. Anyway, at a certain point the buzz just became too much for me at this point when I was talking to my friend in the frontyard. At least, it was too much for me to continue to stand and conversate.
So I calmly just sprawled out on my back on the frontlawn under a big tree. My friend didn't even think anything of it. And boy, was I cool. I don't think I've ever been so relaxed in my life. I was not only up in the tree, but I was the tree. Then the phone rang inside my house...and for whatever reason, I sprng up out of my relaxed state, ran about 5 strides towards the door, then collapsed on a tale on the front patio. My friend and his grilfriend had to snap me out it. It scared the hell out of them. I recovered alright and was seemingly alright for the rest of that day, but that shit had long-lasting effects that were not cool at all.
But yeah, that was a loooong time ago.
i stumbled into the other room and laid down on the examining table. i was fine after that!
Second time was about 2years ago (have issues with my blood levels....usually inexplicably low. Was getting ready to hit up my doc, running round the house, hit the bathroom to brush my teeth and the exact same thing happened. Got the sweats, head spinning, vision blurred then keeled over. luckily there was a plastic stool behind me and it stopped me from cracking my head. Ef-ed up my toe pretty bad too as i went backwards...thought i'd busted it.
my cousin had a lot of bad reactions to the chemo and i'm pretty sure it used to happen a bit to her also!! But in the end she pulled through and has been close to 20years in remission....which i have no doubt you will be too!! Don't forget to take it easy and rest up!!
what about when my poster arrived in the mail?
Oh you!!
HIIIIIII-LARIOUS you are batmon!!
Lets just hope you didn't wake up walking like a cowwwwwwwwwwboy!!
I was stood up at the time, as the tram was packed when we boarded. Just before my stop came, I got the sweats and nausea, went to blissful sleep, woke up seconds later and my mate had grabbed me in a bear hug to stop me keeling over. Everyone looking at me with disdain like I was drunk out of my skull. I also farted like a skunk, apparently...
Got off the tram, went in to a pub and had a full-fat Coke with extra sugar to get me going again. Didn't really work, walked to the restaurant, ordered, couldn't face the food (which I love) when it arrived and spent the rest of the night evacuating both ends in the cubicle.
Didn't feel 100% for months after, although no repeats, just general light-headedness bordering on nausea. Got some blood tests done, had slightly high cholesterol and impaired liver function. Doc said don't eat shit no more and drink less. Both test normal now.
Have more or less stuck with it since.
I remember standing by myself against a wall looking at a big group of friends a few yards away at a table smoking and talking. I started to feel really weird Hot, Dizzy, Nauseous. I motioned to Void to come over to me and told him I thought I was going to faint. He sat me down and it was lights out. I guess I fell into him and started the whole "Fishin" twitchin' thing. He said I was pale as a ghost and out for just a few seconds. Had all those really LONNNNNNNGGGGG impossible dreams that seem like hours and are only seconds, that shit is so weird. In some ways I think he was more freaked than I was. That is the only time, I think I was just stressed out and funny that it was a record related fainting spell.
The double vision episode I had this past summer worried me so much I thought I would get dizzy and pass out just from that. I still don't know why that happened but MRI's came back normal and there was never any diagnosed reason. It only happened once again after within 2 weeks of the first episode and hasn't since so who knows? Obviously not the Neurologist. I hope to not experience either ever again.
DAMN!
not everything must be admitted into evidence!
I had not eaten all day and it was very hot weather. Was on my way home on the rushhour bus from walking around all day when I began to feel really strange; I thought about asking for someone???s seat, but didn???t. My vision began to go dark around the corners and the last thing I remember was my hand on the steel pole. Next thing, I heard voices ???stop the bus, stop the bus??? and I???m on the floor with someone lifitng me up and the first thing I wondered is if I flashed everyone because I was wearing a dress. I got put on a seat, told to put my head between my knees, got a concerned yelling-at by some older lady. The driver who looked exactly like Sammy Hagar, hair and all, was very nice and asked if I wanted an ambulance and to take my time and all that. Got home, got another yelling at by my Mom and ate a popsicle til dinner was ready.
The second time I had all these blood tests and like a fool went back to school to write a math test I could not miss. Again on public transit, we get to the station, everyone gets off, I get up and I guess fell right back into my seat. I open my eyes, the bus driver looks pissed more than anything ??? lol ??? and I basically got up and got off. At school, the math teacher took one look at me and sent me home.
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My thoughts are with choo BreakSelf - stay strong!
And I've still never seen Rumble In The Bronx.