Fainting and vision loss
Common Questions and Answers about Fainting and vision loss
fainting
Before i faint and when i know im going to faint the first thing is my hearing goes totally away or muffled, then i start to get tunnel vision. my hands get really shaky, i break out in a bad sweat and my chest feel like it is being squeezed so hard my breathing gets fast. By that time if i sit down and concentrate on my breathing, which is really rapid by then, it will go away in about 30 seconds. I get the headaches, loss of balance and the chest pain a whole lot more than anything else.
This headache is accompanied by various neurological symptoms such as dizziness, numbness, loss of vision, loss of hearing etc, all of which are temporary. Hypothyroidism, hypoparathyroidism, adrenal insufficiency are a few things I would recommend you get investigated for. These can precipitate BIH. A spinal tap is a must both to diagnose the condition and to treat it.
Sinusitis is another cause of morning headaches. It could also be cluster headache, migraine, or tension headache.
After a minute my ears start ringing, I start to loss consciousness, see black spots and have tunnel vision, my lips turn blue sometimes, I can barley talk, and today my heart felt differently. I told this to my doctor a few times and they checked my blood pressure because my husband mentioned maybe its hypoglecimia . The doctor didnt really have an answer and told me my blood pressure was fine.
I am sorry to hear of your pinched nerve and feelings of faintness.
I have a trapped sciatic nerve but have no symptoms of lightheadedness or fainting associated with the nerve itself.
I am also a former runner and skiier and climber and have a lower blood pressure from my conditioning, but as I got older I developed hypoglycemia where if I eat high carb foods I almost pass out shortly after eating them....
I am a 19 years old female and I have migraines with aura, and I've had them since I was 14 years old. Recently I've started having fainting spells with black outs, loss of hearing, shortness of breath, tunnel vision and severe SEVERE dizziness. The first time i fainted, i couldn't hear anything and my vision got blurry, hit my head hard on the desk as I fell while getting out of bed to get some water. Two days later, I had a migraine episode, the worst ever.
A Year ago when I used to exercise everyday I used to feel really tired and unusual afterwards, Out of a sudden I would feel severe spinning in my head, like a fainting episode with tunnel vision and sweating, headache, nausea and dizziness - then I would stop exercising and have to lay down because I would feel extremely tired. Back then it used to happen only when I exercised, Now this episodes happens everyday (even without exercising).
My symptom list is so long that I frequently get brushed off as a hypochondriac. I get frequent headaches, joint pain, muscle spasms and twitching, nervousness, unprovoked anxiety attacks, vision loss (and I'm starting to go a little colorblind), fainting, difficulty sleeping, irregular heartbeat and fluttering, mood swings, disorientation, weakness, jumpiness, weakness and fatigue....plus all the trouble I have with my stomach on a daily basis.
Over the years I have had this wavey tunnel vision happen many times and feel like I break into a cold sweat when this happens and have always been able to pull the car over, or sit down at work and just wait until it passes. I haven't fainted again. These episodes happened once every month or so. The past 5 or 6 weeks they have started again with a vengance.
I'm 11 weeks and I have been continously fainting at work. I'll lose my vision and hearing and just completely pass out. They keep telling me it's because I'm dehydrated but I'm drinking plenty of water and Gatorade and my blood pressure is very low. No one will really look more into it. I am very scared for my health and about losing my job over it. Please help.
I have been dealing with syncope, migraines, and numbness in the left side of my body for a year and a half now, I get sudden sharp pains in my fingers and bottom of my foot and toes. I get spikes and drops in my blood pressure and will have anywhere from 1-20 syncope episodes a day. I am frequently dizzy and sometimes lose my vision for a few minutes a day as well as my left side mobility. Literaly my left side gets stiff and weak.
Sometimes I feel my heart almost stop and beat very hard and slow (but does this maybe 3 times a month), even causing my vision to go away for a couple of seconds and come back along with a constricting feeling in my neck and throbbing in my head. I visited a family doctor who said it was nothing and happens to everyone? Should I get a second opinion?
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I am 2 months and the other day I was at work and out of nowhere I started feeling nauseous and then my vision began to go black. I immediately jetted to the backroom and sat down. By that time I was running into things couldn't see and couldn't hear at all. I came very close to passing out but didn't and went home to rest. Is this normal? Should I be worried?
Today it happened in a long line at the store, I was waiting about 10 minutes in line and I started getting woozy and weak and my vision started to black out. I made it to a chair and fanned myself for a few minutes and it took a while to go away. Is this normal? I've heard of the dizziness being common, but my vision really starts to turn black and I get light headed. Both times I have had plenty of fluids and protien in my system so its not that.
About 8 years ago when in the shower, I came over all hot and clammy and my vision blurred, eventually my vision was blacked and I ended up passing out. This has happened since over the years, once on holiday, when I was in a lift. Over the passed year the condition has got worse and i have become reliant on carrying a bottle with me. I have informed the doctor and had several blood tests but nothing was found. I also had an ECG and everything was normal.
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