What does it feel like when you are about to faint?

[Mercy]

I had a 'funny turn' this morning and I just wondered if I was on the verge of fainting or whether it's something else (I've only fainted once before and it was very sudden)

I once had to leave a full shopping trolley at the checkout in Asda and go and sit down.

Everybody stared. I was clammy, sweating and nauseous. A very kind supervisor put all my shopping through (almost worth it ..lol).

There seems to be an Asda theme here, as I once had to sit down on a low shelf in the cereal aisle, amongst the cornflakes.

I started my fainting career as a small child when I got up at 5am to play with my new hamstr which promptly bit me hard enough to make blood spurt from the end of my finger. Ohhh, makes me woozy to think of it!

cold sweaty nausous. then wake up embarrassed, nausous, throw up.

Mrsfederer - lovely image "sitting amongst the cornflakes".

I wonder just how many women faint in supermarkets each day on average.
Staff should have special training.

Yeh lovely sight.

Sweating, green around the gills, legs wide open with my head stuffed between 'em.

I literally had to shove the cereal boxes aside so I could sit down before I fell down.

Vision goes black and white and sort of prickly around the edges, and hearing goes. I feel like I'm sinking. Used to happen a lot - thankfully less as I've aged. I once landed in the lap of a handsome commuter on a packed train - have also given myself a black eye fainting in teh shower and hitting the edge of the bath.

Once got the fainting feeling going along in a contraflow on the M62. Tunnel vision, froze, clutched steering wheel and drove through the cones into the roadworks, scattering workmen either side. Long story short, managed to drive another 200 yards to Services, where traffic police lokked after me.
What a dork!
xxx

gingan - how scary, must have been terrifying.

My neighbour fainted while driving her husband to casualty. (He slammed the safe door on his thumb, chopping the top off!) She just managed to steer onto the grass verge.