I've had similar but never actually fainted, usually when tired and/or hungry and standing up after sitting for a while.
I think my dad gets similar, he has low blood pressure (he did end up fainting once or twice I think). My BP's been normal whenever checked, as have my blood levels, as there's a pattern to it (when I'm worn out, it happens) and it's always happened since adulthood, I don't worry too much.
I've never got it checked out specifically as it's just always happened and if I kind of tense everything up it stops me blacking out, but if you never normally have it I'd be tempted to. Try eating and drinking more next time too.
We used to make each other faint at school, by squeezing all the air out of our lungs and getting bearhugged. It was a cool feeling, like drugs.
(looks like it was self-inflicted postural hypotension! 🙂 )
(bumped for avdave)
I congratulate the OP's attitude re: not wanting to be a drain on the precious NHS resources
More of us should take up this perspective and stick our own fingers up our arses.
Same as Dez 👍🏼
Best course - see GP and get an ECG. As mentioned above, possible cause could have been an arrhythmia which would be best known about.
Hope it's just a good ol' "parade ground" faint.
Same as Dez
Do you still remember the feeling? It was over 40 years ago, but I can remember it really clearly. Waking up with my mates looking down at me, me thinking "why aren't I in bed?" 😆
Leaky mitral valve in your heart?
Was the cause for my brother - all fixed up now.
being squeamish. I went at work once when a colleague was talking about is daughter’s epi pen!
A few years ago we were talking at work and we were talking about something to do with blood / bleeding (I forget exactly now) and one lad said he fainted at the sight of blood.
He got up and left the room we were in, and as he walked past the window we discovered that he also fainted from talking about it. He fainted mid-stride and went down like a dropped plank, he just kinda cantilevered over from vertical to horizontal like Del Boy going through the bar counter only face-on. We thought he was messing about at first, when he didn't get up we went out to check and he was lying face down into the carpet. Bust his nose in the process. Weirdest thing, I always kind of expected that people would just 'crumple.'
Have a google of NICE transient loss of consciousness guidelines. I’d be interested in how you felt in the lead up to the collapse- dizzy, hot, ‘need for air’ etc. Collapse without warning (known as prodromal sysmptoms) raises concerns. Any chest pain or palpitations? Normal day eat/drink/exercise otherwise? Would certainly be interested in ecg, lying/standing bp and some bloods.
Tom (A&E ACP)
we discovered that he also fainted from talking about it
yeah, I had a mate like that. We worked together and as an office started to regularly donate blood. He hadn't been before, but came along to do the right thing despite his known dislike to seeing blood. Anyway he got there, and then fainted whilst filling out the forms.
We used to make each other faint at school, by squeezing all the air out of our lungs and getting bearhugged. It was a cool feeling, like drugs.
Crashouts - yay !
(A guy I know became a bit of a local celebrity in his town when he was a kid - called an ambulance and waited with a collapsed lad. May even have done some CPR though if he did it presumably wasn't warranted. Turns out they'd been doing crashouts and he'd done the crushing !)
Didn't spot this yesterday/
I used to get postural hypotension as a youngster a lot, only fainted once though. Not so much as an adult. But it has been happening slightly more lately. Seems to be that the more riding I do, the more it happens - perhaps my BP is generally lower.
Something else to consider though - if you've been keeping the carbs really low, that could have an effect. I did notice you were significantly slower than I expected you to be on Saturday!
. I did notice you were significantly slower than I expected you to be on Saturday!
Ooh matron! 😀
Saxon
My first thought was that it could be a side effect of Time Travel.
Has anything changed? 😉
Sounds like you could have deja vu to me.
I believe farting helps take your mind off it.
I congratulate the OP’s attitude re: not wanting to be a drain on the precious NHS resources
...fair enough were it something truly trivial e.g. going to a+e for a splinter in a finger, but an unexplained loss of consciousness is hardly trivial - especially whilst, say, driving. It needs checking out.
Other people's blood does not bother me even in bucketfuls. Two drops of my own and I pass out
I congratulate the OP’s attitude re: not wanting to be a drain on the precious NHS resources
…fair enough were it something truly trivial e.g. going to a+e for a splinter in a finger, but an unexplained loss of consciousness is hardly trivial – especially whilst, say, driving. It needs checking out.
You must have missed the bit where that ^ was the set-up for an anal-fingering joke.
Never mind...
