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What does fainting feel like?

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KateTheEighth · 07/06/2021 12:07

Odd question I know but I've never fainted before

I was in the shower and felt like I was being pulled to the ground and my head felt really odd. I didn't pass out.

I'm ok now but feel a bit spaced out and a bit headachey

If it's relevant I went for a run this morning but I felt great during and after

Any ideas?

Thank you

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HarryDavidj · 07/06/2021 12:09

Have you had enough to eat? Drank enough water?

HarryDavidj · 07/06/2021 12:09

Also was the water really hot?

MilkTwoSugarsThanks · 07/06/2021 12:12

My personal experience is that you wake up on the floor completely disoriented.

Water too hot, not enough to drink, bit hungry can all make you feel a bit spaced out.

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Mammyofasuperbaby · 07/06/2021 12:13

Fainting for me is feeling extremely light headed, unsteady, my hearing becomes muffled and my vision tunnels until everything blacks out.
Its like being pulled from consciousness.
It sounds like you were to hot or dehydrated rather than fainting

Snowisfallinghere · 07/06/2021 12:13

I feel light-headed and/or dizzy and weak.

Crocky · 07/06/2021 12:17

For me my hearing and vision goes almost completely. I usually have a few seconds where I know I need to get myself to the floor so I don’t crash down.

Justcashnosweets · 07/06/2021 12:17

I feel light headed, nauseous and weak. My hearing goes muffled aswell. Then I wake up on the floor.

Makinglists · 07/06/2021 12:19

I feel sick and want to vomit - I don't. Also sometimes feel hot and head feels like it's stuff3d with cotton wool.

Martinisarebetterdirty · 07/06/2021 12:21

@Mammyofasuperbaby

Fainting for me is feeling extremely light headed, unsteady, my hearing becomes muffled and my vision tunnels until everything blacks out. Its like being pulled from consciousness. It sounds like you were to hot or dehydrated rather than fainting
It feels exactly like this for me too.
Bluntness100 · 07/06/2021 12:22

I’ve only fainted once, I was outside and it was sunny and said to my husband I feel really dizzy, I kept saying it, and I have no recollection of actually fainting but came round on the ground, with my husbands family hauling me uo and my mil shouting stick her head between her knees.😂

Honestly no recollection of going down. I just felt really dizzy and woozy.

SwimBaby · 07/06/2021 12:23

My ears normally feel funny first, then my head feels like it’s swaying, then I faint. The next thing is I’m either laying down or slouched over and confused and upset.

SeraphinaDombegh · 07/06/2021 12:25

@Mammyofasuperbaby

Fainting for me is feeling extremely light headed, unsteady, my hearing becomes muffled and my vision tunnels until everything blacks out. Its like being pulled from consciousness. It sounds like you were to hot or dehydrated rather than fainting
Pretty much exactly like this. I usually feel hot and stifled, too. But it's the tunneling vision that's the last and key sign. I ignore that, I'm going down. Thankfully I usually have a minute or two before that happens, so if I sit down and put my head between my knees I can prevent it. Need something hot and sweet to bring my blood sugar up before I can get back up, though.
OllyBJolly · 07/06/2021 12:25

Low blood pressure so a bit prone to fainting.

I see silver spots and then feel I'm starting to get numb from the head down. The world has gone dark but I know my eyes are open. Then I hit the floor.

If I can sit or even crouch when the vision starts to go I can sometimes stave it off.

mewkins · 07/06/2021 12:28

I get ringing in my ears and it starts to go black. I only faint in the summer and generally if I have not had enough to eat and drink. It is really easy to get dehydrated when running in the summer so make sure you take water with you .

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KateTheEighth · 07/06/2021 12:29

Thank you all

I am usually great with my water intake and drink a lot every day but perhaps I didn't drink as much as usual this morning. The shower wasn't too hot (in fact I turned it down when I got in)

I did cling onto the side of the shower but I didn't actually fall to the ground

Thank you Smile

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UtterlyUnimaginativeUsername · 07/06/2021 12:34

I had an episode the other day when I stood up from squatting too fast. I felt dizzy and lightheaded and leaned back against the wall, and the next thing I remember is feeling like I was waking up from a very vivid dream (I was dreaming that I was somewhere else and my sister was there, and it felt like it went on for ages). I became aware that I was shaking really violently, and then I heard DH asking me if I was okay and why I was shaking. I was still standing up and my eyes were open, but I was gone elsewhere in my head. Very unsettling. Can you faint and stay standing?

PattyPan · 07/06/2021 12:36

I’ve fainted a few times - my vision gets black around the edges like tunnel vision then closes in and I get a weird feeling in the back of my head.
Sip some water and have a bit of sugar.

FrankDarko · 07/06/2021 12:46

I actually seem to faint often, a few times a year, then not for a year or so, and repeat. Always have, no idea why.

To me, I know it's coming. I feel hot flushes, and can lay myself down ready for it. Room starts to spin slowly, getting faster, then I'm gone. When I come to the room is still spinning and slows down. Sometimes I have hallucinations, not always.

It takes me a day to recover usually, I feel weak after.

I always thought everyone experienced it as such, however reading these it seems not Confused

TwoZeroTwoZero · 07/06/2021 12:52

I almost fainted on the train once, many years ago, I ran to the station in the morning having had no breakfast and then I had to stand up the whole journey because there were no seats. I was fine until we got to Leeds when all of a sudden it felt like all the energy in my body had fallen on the ground out of my feet and I couldn't hold my neck up. My feet were like lead but my knees were liquid. I almost threw up. When I got off the train and sat on a nearby bench I put my head between my legs and felt much better.

Mammyofasuperbaby · 07/06/2021 13:11

I forgot to add that I also feel very warm suddenly.
I kept fainting during my last pregnancy as I was severely anaemic and had next to no b12.
Kept keeling over and ending up in a and e last summer

Nat6999 · 07/06/2021 13:15

When I have fainted my eyesight starts closing down, then my hearing goes like I am down a tunnel & then everything goes black, it only lasts a minute maximum but is horrible. I fainted for the first time age 10 when I had a stomach bug & did it regularly in my teens & early 20's but thankfully it stopped.

BoomChicka · 07/06/2021 13:18

I go very hot, dizzy and 'prickly' then it feels like the floor comes towards me (rather than me face planting the floor 🤣).

nighttimeonly · 07/06/2021 15:33

I feel sick and then have a specific fainting symptom which is that the ends of my extremities go numb and the feeling travels up my legs or arms, making the rest of them go numb. This can take thirty seconds or a couple of minutes. I only ever faint when I am in great pain (usually still in hospital) and the nurses are always amazed that I know I'm going to faint and manage to pull the emergency cord in the bathroom in time for them to get there and hold me upright.

SwimBaby · 07/06/2021 16:43

Quite a few of us get the ear/hearing thing. When it happens to me I’m like ‘oh no I’m going to go’ then the next thing I’m on the floor.

soberfabulous · 07/06/2021 16:50

I heard a massive bang and thought "who is making that racket?!"

Then realized I was in the floor and had knocked a chair over as I went down.