r/Syncope

I’m used to fainting for various reasons, have no known diagnosis.

Anyway- while at the pathologist for testing something unrelated I passed out. I have no idea how long for and I think I went backwards, I was in a bathroom so completely by myself. I don’t have any noticeable bumps or sore spots on my head but had a massive headache that makes itself known whenever I get up or sit down etc and a really tender neck right where it meets my skull??

I’ve never really injured myself passing out so this is new.

A doctor obviously saw me at this clinic once they worked out I’d passed out and thrown up all over myself (yippee 🥳) so I’m not worried about needing to see a doctor - the neck pain just didn’t start until after I left and painkillers aren’t fixing it.

Is this common for anyone else? How long does it take to sort itself out and is there anything you find that makes it feel better?

It started about a​ little more than 2 years ago. I noticed this heavy drowsy feeling when I was around 16. I thought I was just overworking myself or experiencing hypoglycemia. But drowsy moments progressively got worse and seem to have no correlation to anything. Then I gave birth after a ​year and they reached their peak. About 3 months postpartum they started getting so bad that I would fall to my knees and would barely be able to get up. Just like how when you're zoning out you try to break through it but you get pulled back in. My knees give out almost every time now. But I don't usually fall, I just look like I'm off fent or something. It's like involuntary total muscle relaxation. This happens probably 4 times a day and only lasts a minute. And again I'm perfectly conscious! Just slumped 😅 it's kinda worrying. The only thing that seemed to help me was taking iron but I feel like I'm always taking iron and it's still happening so idk... Help!!

Last week, I fainted for the 3rd time in roughly 2.5 years because of a hot shower. The doctors have ruled out things like POTS, epilepsy, and arrhythmias, so it's just straight-up hot-water-induced syncope. The annoying thing is that I took scorching hot showers all my life with ZERO issues...I don't know if it's some sort of post covid thing or what.

In the meantime, I've now got an old lady shower stool and have resigned myself to taking lukewarm showers only after eating and drinking. Also increasing my salt intake, as my blood pressure naturally runs on the lower side, and my cardiologist said it was fine.

Anyone else go through something like this? I'm at my wit's end.

I’ve had anxiety my whole life and I’ve always dealt with it pretty well on my own, recently I moved away for my first year of university last September and it was great, I had less anxiety attacks then ever and only had about two major panic attacks. But ever since moving back home about a month and a half ago I’ve been wrought with EXTREME anxiety that comes on in small bursts that last for only about ten minutes. These usually come on when I leave the house and I enter a car or a store, and they’re most intense when I’m alone and can’t access a bathroom (I’ll explain that later) and it’s wayyy worse in the mornings, like these symptoms tend to go away after 3pm for no apparent reason. What happens is I start to feel nauseated and my heart rate starts going very fast about 120ish when my resting rate is usually in the fifties. It feels like I’m going to throw up/poop myself and then suddenly my blood pressure will crash, I’ll loose a bit of my vision, and if I’m standing up while that happens I will faint. And also! A couple times when that’s happened I’ve literally popped my pants! Which only adds to the fear of not being around a toilet! I ended up going to a doctor about the bowel issues and was told I probably just had food poisoning and am fine. But the problem is that my anxiety has not ended and I keep getting these bouts of extreme anxiety and I don’t know what to do. Especially when I am expected to show up for work next week where I have to drive on the highway, early in the morning. Honestly I’m really scared and I don’t know what to do. Any help would be much appreciated.

TLDR: Since moving back home from university, I’ve been having severe anxiety episodes, especially in the mornings, I get nauseous, my heart races, and I sometimes faint or lose control of my bowels. I don’t know how to manage this and I need some advice

I only have 3 triggers for this. 1, peeing in the middle of the night. It's rare but it's happened. 2, vomiting. Again sometime, not always. And 3, the main one, needles like blood draws or shots. The first two I can live with. But #3 has kept me from getting blood drawn and stuff for years. Will exposure therapy help? I will say, I haven't ever fully passed out. I just get very close and feel like I'm on the verge of losing consciousness and I can hardly talk or move but I just lay flat for a few mins and I'm okay. But I can't stand it happening, especially at the docs.

I had what we think was a non epileptic seizure on Sunday afternoon, I’m still feeling sluggish and extremely exhausted.. is that normal? (it’s Thursday now)
I wouldn’t say it’s “bad” but I truly don’t feel like I really have any energy, like any time I go to move at all it almost feels like my chest gets heavy? I don’t lose my breath or anything and my heart doesn’t start to race but it feels like it takes more energy than it should.. idk if that makes sense or not but does anyone else feel extremely sluggish and exhausted for a couple days after and if so how long would you say it takes your body to recover and not feel exhausted all the time
I’ve also only had 2 “episodes” so far in the last 3 months and we’re not sure if I’m passing out and convulsing or if I’m “seizing”

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as title says. i fainted in September (on my birthday 🥲) for no obvious reason. i wasn't hot, dehydrated, hungry, stressed, upset. i hadn't just stood up or been standing for a long time. I went to the doctor's the day after who noticed I had a murmur so ordered a ECG and an echocardiogram. those were all fine, which is great! but I'm left with no answers.

It seriously knocked my confidence. there isn't a day that goes by where I don't worry about fainting again. I know I have no reason to believe it will happen again, but I also have no reason to believe it won't happen again, since it was so completely out of the blue.

hoooow do i move past this? if I'm not going to get a reason for it then i need some way to stop thinking it's going to happen again. I'm tired of stressing about it every time I leave the house. any advice will be greatly appreciated 🫡

Hello, so I am new to this app and this page. I’ve been dealing with a lot in the last two years and finally got diagnosed. They also think I could have POTS but I didn’t fail my tilt test so they said they couldn’t tell. My doctors have been amazing and did a lot of tests on me even though everything came back normal. I get very dizzy and light headed after any type of activity. I’m a teacher so I go up and down a lot of stairs. I have to put my head between my legs to keep me from passing out. My doctor put me on a beta blocker metaprolol which for a while really helped. Well it still helps it’s just giving me awful side effects I’m not passing out but I get terrible nausea and debilitating exhaustion. I go to work but when I come home I go to bed immediately then get up eat dinner and go to bed. I’m only 26 and I can’t seem to get over being so tired. I recently just moved into my own house so I’m trying to get things together but I can’t get out of bed when I am home. My blood pressure is stabilized now but I still have chest pain that is very sharp and comes back throughout the day. I have another appt with my cardiologist on Wednesday I’m going to talk to him about all my symptoms and see if we can do something else. I take two other medications fluoxetine and ajovy so I can’t have anything that mixes with those. Has anyone else experienced something like this and what did you do for the fatigue and pain?

Ive been having skipped heartbeats for over a year. They started small like a Skip beat here and there every couple months. Then they would come back one or two once a week. Then I started getting them once a day, then they would go away again and then they came back and I would get 20 a day in just one day and then none the next three days. Now I get them sporadically I never know when they’re gonna happen, but I also get them sometimes after I eat, or if I’m too full, it doesn’t matter what I eat. A lot of the times I won’t get any after eating. I have noticed, though if I eat, sometimes I’ll get a very fast heart rate after eating it will go from 70 up to 95. It’s not all the time though it’ll do that every couple weeks then stop and then it will happen every day for a week and then it will stop again for another week. Now for the past couple months I’ve been experiencing dizziness every day like I’m loopy all the time, along with the skipped beats. I have had an echocardiogram done. Everything is fine. I had the bilateral of my arteries in my neck done. Everything was fine there too. I had a heart monitor on for seven days they found only a couple rare PVCs. Now lately if I bend over at work my heart will skip a beat almost every time I bend over to grab garbage or sometimes if I bend way down, it will skip a beat like my heart is flopping around or something then I’ve noticed if I twist a certain way it feels like my heart goes out of rhythm because it goes very fast and feels like I’m going to faint a little cause I get dizziness with it and I have to stop what I’m doing reposition myself and breathe. Example I was painting a banister on some stairs and I had to twist to get to the other side so I twisted my stomach and my chest area and it didn’t do it right away, but I held that position for maybe a minute if that and and then my heart started going crazy. I’ve noticed any position now if I twist or if my chest is compressed it does it. It’s like it’s beating so fast out of like a rhythm and then it goes back to normal once I go back to a normal position . The doctors did the basic metabolical blood test. Everything is fine except for my magnesium and potassium are low, also my sodium is always at a 134 and CO2 are low, but I have been doing well with keeping that up and I still have everything going wrong sometimes I think the magnesium glycinate helps with the palpitations and Skip beats and then I have them no matter what. This might not be anything with my lifestyle change, but I have noticed that my heart rate is lower than it normally is and also my blood pressure has also went down a little bit. Did do diet changes because my cholesterol was high and I quit drinking alcohol altogether. The dizziness goes away when I sleep at night and when I wake up I feel fine. I do my workout with no issues for an hour. It’s afterwards that everything starts happening. I don’t understand why my heart would go crazy with me twisting a certain way. Has anyone experienced any of this and found out what is wrong with them? I am so sick of it I cry because I have no answers and it makes no sense why I have all these symptoms. Has anyone experienced any of this? I am at a loss and my doctors think I’m nuts and I’m not. I don’t feel normal and I don’t understand what is wrong. Can anybody help please???