Submitted by Jean (not verified) on Mon, 02/25/2008 - 8:50pm.
I fainted passing out on Sunday 2/10/08 in the evening falling in the bedroom. I jammed my shoulder and had an x-ray and it was negative it just hurts like hell. I had fainted on Dec 31st too the same symptoms and I had been drinking which I usually don't drink. I felt it coming on like feeling hot, sweaty, and ringing in my ears, vision blurred. Then I heard a noise far off and our dog bark. I opened my eyes and I was on the floor and realized I was the was the noise that I heard. My husband was worried and kept wanting to call an ambulance. I told him to wait and I just wanted to get in bed. He helped me get in bed and I felt like I had to defacate. I tried walking to our bathroom in the bedroom and I got to the toilet and I passed out again, I asked him to help me to the bed again and I passed out near the footboard. I got to the bed and after about 20 or so I felt much better. I have done this before the first time I was 12 (I don’t really remember a lot when I was 12 just that I was shoveling snow in the blizzard), had these fainting spells in my 20’s, 30’s & 40’s. In my 20's, 30's and 40's everytime I had a fainting spell I had either been taking diet pills, drinking or smoking weed. Sometimes I think that the alcohol and weed may be a trigger??? I am also dieting doing it the healthy way eating right and have lost 15 lbs since mid January. Maybe I wasn't drinking enough water? In 1976 my husband and I were on the way to visit his BIL at the hospital and I slammed my left index finger in the car door. We went to the ER because I knew I needed some stitches and before we got to the hospital I looked at my finger and I started feeling dizzy and lightheaded. My husband went in the ER and got me a wheelchair because I felt like I was going to pass out. On Mon, 2/11 my husband and I went to my doctor's office first thing in the morning. My doctor said something about Vasovagal Syncope which is the most common form of fainting. I had most of the symptoms. My doctor wanted me to see a cardiologist to rule out any cardio problems and sent me to a cardiologist my husband had been to in the past on Tuesday morning and the nurse put a heart monitor (holter) on me to wear overnight Tuesday, 2/12. I went back to the cardiologist on Wednesday morning to take back the heart monitor. Then I went and get my shoulder x-ray. On the way back I called my doctor's office and said that I had turned in the heart monitor to the cardiologist and the receptionist told me that the doctor had spoken to the cardiologist for about 15-20 minutes that morning. She told me to call the cardiologist and make an appointment for an evaluation and family history and another EKG in his office. I did and then they called me back and asked if I could come that afternoon at 1 PM because they had a cancellation. After the appointment they scheduled me for a Nuclear Stress Test at the Cardiovascular Center on Wed, 2/20. This is to rule out any cardiovascular problems. I went last Wednesday for the Nuclear Stress Test which they put the electrodes on you and put an IV in my hand. Then they call me in to take pictures of my heart lying down with my arms above my head for 15 minutes. Then I go back out in the waiting room and they called me to take my BP, weight, and the treadmill, then putting a magnetic dye in the IV. I had to walk until my heart rate was up not really that long though. Then I go back out in the waiting area and they call me back then take more pictures with the magnetic dye for another 15 minutes. The doctor told me I did okay on the treadmill. Then when I had my 2nd set of pictures done I could leave and I asked when I find out the results. They told me Thursday or Friday. I went back to work on Thursday driving myself and didn’t hear anything so because of the impending weather I decided to stay home on Friday and I called cardiologist office and they were closed because of the weather. I found out this morning that the test was negative, what a relief. I have a feeling I have the Vasovagal Syncope at this point and I have my regular appointment with my doctor on Wednesday 2/27. Oh, both doctors said that if I feel the fainting coming on to lie down on my side and it will subside. I have a sister 3 years younger than me and she has also had fainting spells and virtigo. I have also had virtigo in the past, our other sister has never fainted. I found this site this afternoon and everyone posts seem so similar.
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Vasovagal Syncope
I fainted passing out on Sunday 2/10/08 in the evening falling in the bedroom. I jammed my shoulder and had an x-ray and it was negative it just hurts like hell. I had fainted on Dec 31st too the same symptoms and I had been drinking which I usually don't drink. I felt it coming on like feeling hot, sweaty, and ringing in my ears, vision blurred. Then I heard a noise far off and our dog bark. I opened my eyes and I was on the floor and realized I was the was the noise that I heard. My husband was worried and kept wanting to call an ambulance. I told him to wait and I just wanted to get in bed. He helped me get in bed and I felt like I had to defacate. I tried walking to our bathroom in the bedroom and I got to the toilet and I passed out again, I asked him to help me to the bed again and I passed out near the footboard. I got to the bed and after about 20 or so I felt much better. I have done this before the first time I was 12 (I don’t really remember a lot when I was 12 just that I was shoveling snow in the blizzard), had these fainting spells in my 20’s, 30’s & 40’s. In my 20's, 30's and 40's everytime I had a fainting spell I had either been taking diet pills, drinking or smoking weed. Sometimes I think that the alcohol and weed may be a trigger??? I am also dieting doing it the healthy way eating right and have lost 15 lbs since mid January. Maybe I wasn't drinking enough water? In 1976 my husband and I were on the way to visit his BIL at the hospital and I slammed my left index finger in the car door. We went to the ER because I knew I needed some stitches and before we got to the hospital I looked at my finger and I started feeling dizzy and lightheaded. My husband went in the ER and got me a wheelchair because I felt like I was going to pass out. On Mon, 2/11 my husband and I went to my doctor's office first thing in the morning. My doctor said something about Vasovagal Syncope which is the most common form of fainting. I had most of the symptoms. My doctor wanted me to see a cardiologist to rule out any cardio problems and sent me to a cardiologist my husband had been to in the past on Tuesday morning and the nurse put a heart monitor (holter) on me to wear overnight Tuesday, 2/12. I went back to the cardiologist on Wednesday morning to take back the heart monitor. Then I went and get my shoulder x-ray. On the way back I called my doctor's office and said that I had turned in the heart monitor to the cardiologist and the receptionist told me that the doctor had spoken to the cardiologist for about 15-20 minutes that morning. She told me to call the cardiologist and make an appointment for an evaluation and family history and another EKG in his office. I did and then they called me back and asked if I could come that afternoon at 1 PM because they had a cancellation. After the appointment they scheduled me for a Nuclear Stress Test at the Cardiovascular Center on Wed, 2/20. This is to rule out any cardiovascular problems. I went last Wednesday for the Nuclear Stress Test which they put the electrodes on you and put an IV in my hand. Then they call me in to take pictures of my heart lying down with my arms above my head for 15 minutes. Then I go back out in the waiting room and they called me to take my BP, weight, and the treadmill, then putting a magnetic dye in the IV. I had to walk until my heart rate was up not really that long though. Then I go back out in the waiting area and they call me back then take more pictures with the magnetic dye for another 15 minutes. The doctor told me I did okay on the treadmill. Then when I had my 2nd set of pictures done I could leave and I asked when I find out the results. They told me Thursday or Friday. I went back to work on Thursday driving myself and didn’t hear anything so because of the impending weather I decided to stay home on Friday and I called cardiologist office and they were closed because of the weather. I found out this morning that the test was negative, what a relief. I have a feeling I have the Vasovagal Syncope at this point and I have my regular appointment with my doctor on Wednesday 2/27. Oh, both doctors said that if I feel the fainting coming on to lie down on my side and it will subside. I have a sister 3 years younger than me and she has also had fainting spells and virtigo. I have also had virtigo in the past, our other sister has never fainted. I found this site this afternoon and everyone posts seem so similar.