Does anyone else find that they feel faint in supermarkets? Especially ASDA

[Buttybach]

I have always found this. Especially Asda and I have no idea why!!
I do have Adhd and I'm on medication for it. But I still experience this extreme feeling of almost passing out every time I go there.
It's very odd!

Not now but as a child I had this in sainsburys. Could go anywhere with parents but sainsburys made me unwell.

Yes. I find wearing sunglasses helps. I think it's the overhead lighting.

Only when pregnant.

I remember coming over all peculiar in Asda & about three staff members grabbed a chair, grabbed me, parked the chair under my bum & handed me a bottle of water. Like a well oiled machine, they were!

Apparently pregnant women were keeling over in there almost daily. They blamed the strip lighting.

I sometimes get this is sainsburys, I think it's the lighting.

Had two kids with ADHD and possibly mum with ADD, so it's possible I'm undiagnosed if that helps.

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No never had this at supermarkets.
I only find them claustrophofic on busy weekends or around Christmas time as it is full of people everywhere you turn. I find that stressfull

I do OP I always feel ill in the supermarket. I do have GAD and take medication but it does always seem to be in the supermarket, any supermarket.

I had this growing up and being dragged around hot, packed department stores with my mum. She used to think I was just moaning until I actually fainted in C&A (showing my age!)

Yes. I thinks it's the lighting.

Kind of...but only when pregnant. Every time I went into Tesco when pregnant I’d have to make a dash to the toilets, and puke. Every single week until birth. That was 20 years ago, and I still occasionally feel queasy at the memory.

In your case I am assuming the lighting is contributing, also remembering the feeling from previous visits compounding this.

Probably Sensory overload. I'd try to do click and collect as much as possible, and then very short trips.
Ear phones (noise cancelling might be best), sunglasses, and I'd probably do a "scan as you go" app or machine.

I can't use my local library; I feel sick within minutes of entering. It feels like seasickness.
It's a very old, dimly lit building.
It doesn't happen anywhere else 🤷🏻‍♀️

It’s the lighting. My mum has this problem in M&S.

Agree with the lighting - mum can’t hack it either so doesn’t go into shops much . Never met another until my GP said she can’t shop in M&S as it gives her a migraine attack !

Not faint, but ‘foggy’ and disconnected, like I’m almost not there.

Doesn’t happen so much these days, but then again I’m also not living with an abuser whist trying to be a full time mum and home educator etc etc etc

Agreeing with others about the lighting. It's definitely worse in some places.

It's weird, I love shopping, don't mind crowds at all! I think it must be definitely the strip lighting in the store
Come to think of it Sainsbury's used to always make be feel dizzy when I was a child.

I will defo try the sunglasses trick.

Yes when I was pregnant in Sainsbury’s, I was at the till and the lady said and ‘how are you today’ and I replied ‘awful I’m about to faint’ she sat me down while they packed my shopping. I agree it’s the lighting.

I have special "shopping glasses" which have some tint and anti glare something or other - the optician said it was common at my age with led lights. More of a banging headache first then nausea if it was a really long shop.

Amazon do some very cheap blue or yellow tinted specs which might be worth a try?

I actually fainted once in primark when I was pregnant.

I find the dizzy feeling is worse when I'm hormonal. I have endo so hormones are all over the shop.
It's weird that asda is definitely the worst

I have odd feelings too in certain shops....and I also need to go and do a poo. So I regularly leave my shopping and have to find a toilet. BHS and bookshops were/are the worse places.

Faint and sort of disconnected, like a PP said.
Thought this was just me.
If I've been out on a long shopping trip, going into different shops, eg for Christmas or holidays, it really takes it out of me for a day or two afterwards.

Yes! Some supermarkets and shops seem to be worse than others. My local Sainsbury's for instance is fine, but the big one a few miles away always sets me off.

I also get migraines, not sure if that's related?

Yes but only when pregnant like a previous poster. My local Home Bargains was actually the worse place for it.