Have you ever fainted?

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I fainted for the first time in my life yesterday.

Currently have covid and I got into bed with my cup of tea and laptop to watch something.

Next time I know, my legs burning and ive spilt my tea everywhere.

Never fainted before and I had no warning sign before hand. Just literally out and up again.

I was initially confused as to why my leg was burning but cottoned on quick to what what was happened

How are you feeling today?

Frequently, for me it starts to “get dark” - the light seems to fade quickly from the outside of my field of vision inwards and I feel lightheaded and sometimes hot but not always. It’s just a few seconds at most. But if I can sit or lie down as it gets dark I can stop a full faint happening. I do often vomit afterwards too though unfortunately!

It happened to me often as a teen in the heat, I was super skinny and didn’t react well to the sun. These days it is because my blood pressure can be a bit erratic although sometimes it can be from low blood sugar too. The warning is brief but enough time usually for me to avert disaster. I felt one coming when DD was a newborn and I had just enough time to put her down safely. Scary though!

Frequently as a child and teen. Not so often as an adult. My head would go cold as I felt the blood drain from it, I’d see bright light and next thing I’d wake up on the floor. Once fainted backwards into something hard and split my head open. I have fainted during blood tests. One minute sitting in a chair and the next waking up on the floor. The blood draining sensation is more often when standing. I try to sit on the floor when I suspect I’m about to faint.

not since I was a kid, I have hypothyroidism and as a kid I’ve fainted a fair few times. I feel faint often, all part of the disease, I manage to relax and Haven’t actually fainted as an adult. Thank god. I’m not one for attention so the thought of fainting in public terrifys me. Especially if I’m with one of my kids.

The clamminess - mine starts in my lips, like I've poked them out if the window of a centrally heated room in February. That's my first tell so 8 know to chug a load of water and/or sit down, immediately.

When I wake up in the morning I sit up and drink a load of water or chamomile tea before I go anywhere.

Several times when I was younger due to anaemia, one time I banged my head as I fell and had a fit dreamt I was in a train crash and everything was green.

That doesn't sound like fainting.

It's not like a on/off switch. You feel it coming, it's not pleasant.

Im always sick afterwards as well 🙄

Preface - all ok now.

My son fainted in the doctors surgery when being prodded for a sore back.
Clean just tipped forward and knocked himself out as he hit the wall. His head snapped back - it was the worst thing that's happened to me as a mum. I went into shock. He was blue lighted to hosp (worried about spinal injury). Thankfully after thorough checks he was given the all clear - just concussion.

He fainted about 4 times in other situations, had loads of neurological and heart tests - all clear, and he (fingers crossed) seems to have grown out of it now.

Never properly have but I've felt like I was about to a few times. Most recently when I had a seriously violent bout of D&V. I was in the shower at 3am as I needed to clean myself up. Everything started to go dark and my head and torso felt heavy, as though I was being pulled down. I felt absolutely awful and just about managed to call DH over when I was suddenly violently sick everywhere repeatedly. Felt much better afterwards, I think it must have the blood draining to my stomach in preparation for the coming. It was scary, I felt like I was going down and there was nothing I could do to stop it.

About three times in my life. Once when I was a teenager. Once outside a shop on a busy Saturday. Felt hot inside and t that feeling like I was going. Next thing I came round on the pavement with people walking over me! Honestly no fucker helped .

The last time was last year when I had my fingertip bitten off by my dog. I passed out. I think a combination of shock and pain.

It's the most horrible feeling.

Lots of times, but not recently, I'm glad to say.

The last time was because of period pains. It must be about 20 years ago. I woke up on the bathroom floor - having fallen off the loo when I fainted. Our bathroom isn't very big so my head was wedged under the radiator and I burned my eyelid.

The most dramatic time was at work about 35 years ago. I had banged my funny bone really painfully and said to one of my colleagues that I thought I was going to faint. I apparently then threw out my arms dramatically and said "I'm going, I'm going". Everyone thought I was messing around until I collapsed and hit my head on the corner of the desk on the way down, cutting my head open.

I’ve fainted a few times , sometimes with a bit of notice and once or twice without . When I was pregnant with our first I fainted when out with my mum and she tipped a bottle of lemonade over me ‘ to revive me ‘ . When I’d had the baby I fainted in the toilet on the post natal ward and banged my head on the toilet bowl - that was the one I didn’t see coming I literally just woke up with a head injury . Since then I’ve fainted a couple of times but always known I’m going .

Yes a few times. Usually whilst pregnant. I learnt the signs quickly though-usually starts with a hot and fuzzy neck), so was able to make sure I was safely sitting or lying down.

A fair few times when I was younger - I had very low blood pressure as a teenager/young woman, and being dehydrated or with low blood sugar, or having an emotional shock or being ill with an infection or similar seemed to be the main factors.

For me the warning is sudden ringing and buzzing in the ears, accompanied by a sudden wave of intense nausea — then all the sounds get far away, and a buzzing static field, like snow on an old analogue TV, starts closing in over my vision from the sides. The first time, I was fifteen and had no idea what was happening until I keeled over! Since then I normally recognise the signs and immediately get down on the floor and that usually sorts it out.

I once ran all the way to a routine GP appointment one hot morning when I was 24 and had woken up late - too late to have anything to eat or drink on the way. Got into the appointment, opened my mouth and for some reason my blood pressure dropped suddenly (postural hypotension from getting up maybe?) and it must have been clear what was happening, as the doctor leapt up and practically rugby tackled me to the floor! She then got the nurse to come in and sit with me and give me squash and an iced bun and check my blood pressure before I was allowed to leave. So embarrassing! 😂🤦‍♀️

I used to faint once or twice when I was a kid, or a young woman..I don't know why, but I do remember the horrible 'no energy at all' feeling, and just wanting to stay lying down, with no one trying to get me back up, I don't want to move..I am just completely like lead and feel lousy, with loud loud roaring and chattering in my ears. 'Just leave me!! I'll be ok go away!' It's a horrible feeling and once or twice I've known I was very very weak, and so I put my head right down between my knees to get blood back to my brain, to try and stop it, But I hate people thinking they have to DO something to get me 'back' LEAVE ME ALONE !!!

Loads of times. Low blood pressure. First time at primary school, went to the office to see the nurse passed out and hit my head on the sink. Worst was on a flight back from the States. Got up to go to the loo and crashed to the floor. Spent the rest of the flight with the cabin crew watching me like hawks, wheelchaired off at airport. Last time three years ago. So bad, lengthy recovery time, DH had to call 111 which resulted in ECG etc. All OK fortunately.

Rarely get much warning. Have to be careful to not become dehydrated. Stress is another possible trigger.

A lot when I was younger. Less now and I know the warning signs so lie down.
A few years ago I fainted into a wall and knocked myself out which was pretty awful and I felt terrible for weeks after.