angelwings527 days ago

I know how you feel, it's awful. What I've found helpful is controlling my breathing, there are some good guides online for meditation type breathing (deep breathing using your diaphragm) this works for me. Also, if I'm at home I'll use a cold flannel on the back of my neck and wrists.

BabsyWabsy7 days ago

Hi Ker2cr, do you actually black out or just feel as if you might?

Ker2cr in reply to BabsyWabsy7 days ago

Just feel like I might

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BabsyWabsy7 days ago

It is a deeply unpleasant feeling. Is there anything that triggers it? How often does it happen? For me it is too much sugar. This brings me out in a cold sweat, my skin goes grey and I feel as if I might die or at least pass out. Accompanied by lots of D as my body tries to get rid of what is troubling it.

Ker2cr in reply to BabsyWabsy7 days ago

Not noticed anything specific, will maybe try and keep track when I get it and what I’ve eaten.

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BabsyWabsy7 days ago

Have a look at this from Guts UK.

gutscharity.org.uk/advice-a...

Ker2cr in reply to BabsyWabsy7 days ago

Thanks

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buggins557 days ago

I get this it's the spasms of the gut irritating the vagus nerve slows the blood supply to the brain makes you feel faint, sometimes it's like a wave rolling over me makes me feel queasy and faint at it's worst sweaty and tingly and ears ringing I quite often have stomach cramps at the same time I breath through it often passes quite quickly if it's really bad I lay down or sit with my head down. I'm told clenching your hands and tightening the muscles in the feet re routes the blood supply from the extremities, its a very very unpleasant thing I know, with a lot of people the feelings pass once they've had a poo isn't IBS just great !!!

Ker2cr in reply to buggins557 days ago

Yeah I feel much better once I’ve been to the toilet

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Prance7 days ago

Had 4 complete blackouts of which 3 were in different hospitals and one in doctors surgery. Don't know why as I don't have a phobia about such places, no problems with needles or taking blood. Blackness starts at the periphery and closes in quickly. I am completely unconscious for a a while. One occasion sitting in a chair next to bed in a hospital, came round on the bed with a crash team around me. Apparently blood pressure drops rapidly.

iloveglee6 days ago

I have had this happen to me a few times. Once or twice I know its going to happen and can get on the floor by myself so I don't keel over. But on two occasions I have gone completely out cold and came to wondering how I got to where I was. Once I hurt myself as I was in the bathroom and crashed into the radiator.

I have found that this can be related to panic, especially as has been mentioned stimulation of the vagus nerve. I wear a rubber band around my wrist, and if I begin to get cramps, I flick the rubber band against my wrist, enough to make it hurt. Plus the slow steady breathing. I don't really know the science behind this, but it has worked for me at least twice recently. Unfortunately sometimes it all happens so very quickly there's little or nothing you can do to prevent it. I have landed up in hospital twice to 'check me over'. Nothing wrong is ever found!! IBS that's all, as if it were nothing. It's literally a pain in the a***

Luisa226 days ago

I had something like this a few years ago. I didn't actually faint, but I felt mighty horrible, and it activated a fight-flight response too. I thought I might be dying! I'd no idea what it was.

I did what I'd gone in the bathroom to do, got cleaned up and clothes back on, by sheer grit and willpower but I was shaking all over and was white as a sheet.

This might not be for everyone but my cure was a shot of brandy and a spoonful of honey. Within 10 minutes I felt well enough to walk down to feed a neighbour's cat while they were away.