Last night I was out at a restaurant with my friend. We had had two cocktails before and I had ordered a wine with my meal, though had only had a couple of mouthfuls. This was over the space of three hours just to give context (I wasn’t drunk) and I started feeling really weird.
at first I thought I was going to be sick so I excused myself to the loo to get myself together then when I returned a couple of minutes later the feeling came back. I can only describe it as a fizzy head, cold sweat and I felt like I wanted to scrunch myself up, like the lights were making me uncomfortable. Well then I can’t remember anything and my friend said I went completely grey, eyes just staring for about 20s and I wasn’t responding then I collapsed on to the table. Completely stiff, eyes rolled back, jaw and teeth clenched.
this lasted about a minute and when I came around I was confused and convinced I had just taken a nap (?!) about a minute later it happened again, though this time I fell off my chair. And it lasted longer (maybe 2 min). Apparently the whole restaurant came over to help, some kind stranger was slapping my face (!) because no one could be sure I was breathing as I was so grey and stiff.
well the staff called an ambulance (not in Uk) who arrived about 30min later and were pleased with my obs, also understood I wasn’t intoxicated.
anyway… wtf was that?! I have NEVER had a seizure or even passed out before. I wasn’t dehydrated, I had eaten through the day. No medication/drugs of any kind. There are some stressful things going on with a family members health but personally I don’t feel too stressed.
a few months ago I had a couple of episodes where I got the fizzy head then my heart would race and I put those down to panic/anxiety attacks and tried to ignore them 🙈
anyway. I return to UK next week so will make a GP appt for when I’m back but in the meantime has anyone got any idea?