Ok, so mumsnet probably not the best place for this, but today my DH came home from work in a right old state. He had a 5 minute 'blackout' at work, and then goes on to tell me that he has been having 'blank spells,' for a while. He is booked in to the docs in the morning, but I'm sat here worrying, so I thought I'd ask if anyone has any experience of this kind of thing.
He has suffered from migraines on and off since he was a teen (29 now) and is constantly tired and is a very poor sleeper. He is also under extreme pressure at work, and I know the stress is affecting him in a big way. This 'blackout' today followed a particularly stressful experience. He said he just 'came to' on the floor and didn;t know where he was for a while. He was very fatigued afterwards, and went straight to bed.
During the blank spells he describes, he says he just 'comes to' and seems to have missed a few seconds or minutes. He said he feels tired after these episodes, although they don;t necessarily seem linked to stressful experiences.
He has been having a lot of headaches lately, although I wouldn't describe them as migraines.
So my question is - could these things be related and what might be casing them? By the time I read the responses he will have probably been to the GPs and will have an answer!