i blacked out and fell down the stairs

[Titania]

i bumped my head play fighting with DH about 2pm, then passed out when i tried to get up. I tried to take myself down the stairs only i blacked out again and fell down the stairs. I was out for about 20 minutes according to DH and dd was crying cos she thought I had died. I fell asleep as well and was really cold. I jarred my back and bumped my head again and twisted my ankle. Someone said I could have concussion. I fell asleep afterwards too. I feel bruised, shaky and sick now. Am just looking on MHS website about blackout and am now very scared. Its happened a few times in the past few weeks without having panic attacks.

Great anniversary im having!

you're too scared to go up the stairs? Do you have a downstairs loo? How are you managing to look after the kids? Perhaps you should call community health or something like that?

Is there anyone who can come over to your place this moning? To give you the confidence to go upstairs - preferably someone who will do something about it if you do fall again?

like your husband perhaps?

i have nobody here. i dont have a downstairs loo. dd can take herself up which helps. think i would look a bit odd walking a mile to the docs in my pjs.....

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You said earlier that you were feeling stiff this morning....are you feeling lightheaded? How did you feel just before you blacked out yesterday?

If I were you, I'd crawl up the steps (like a toddler), and then shuffle back down the stairs on my bum....so you're less likely to hurt yourself if you black out again.

Have you been eating properly?

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thats how i came down this morning earlybird....

titania are you going to the docs? the fishy one will be phoned if I hear you havent gone

titania are you going to the docs? the fishy one will be phoned if I hear you havent gone

i am ringing them at 1.45 and going down regardless then.....

titana i get this alot too hun, mine is due to low blood pressure.... I collapsed last thurs whilst sat at the puter and fell off the chair. but only last about 2 mins not twenty mins....

hope ur ok hun let us know how u get on

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thanks twoangels. I only have DH opinion on the time scale....!

ok hun just really hope u find out whats going on and hope its nought to serious

me too x x

Oh come on this is a wind up surely?

why?

Enid you really are shocking, I must admit I think the same but I cannot prove it as an untrue so will give tit ania the benefit of the doubt and wait for an indepth runby of what the GP think. I also think titania has alot of problems that mumsnet cant help her with

sorry

because
a) if you blacked out for 20 mins you probably have serious concussion and are not in a fit state to be looking after your kids
b) your dh just sat and looked at you while you were laying there for 20 mins and now he has gone to work leaving you with the kids
c)you are now scared of stairs and yet you are at home with 2 small kids

sorry this just makes no sense to me

so you do think its a wind up then fio

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I have just spoken a friend of mine who is a gp. She said if you were really unconscious for 20 mins there is a real risk of brain swelling and you must go and see your own gp or to A&E asap.

I'd find out whether your dh was telling the truth or not very quickly if I were you.

why are u waiting till 1.45?

TBH there is no way I'd have waited until now to seek medical advice. I'd have been to A&E when it happened either by ambulance or my own transport. It's a scary scary thing to have happened.