Fainting during sleep brain
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If you had done ECG, echo etc and doctor said fine then the reason possibly pointing towards lack of quality sleep, rest etc. We might not even aware of it as simply lying ob during night is not enough instead we need to go deep sleep just like we are dead and wake refreshed and that is the real restful quality sleep we all need to remain refreshed during day. Both hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism can affect sleep.
Hypotension, anemia, improper sleeping position or poor blood flow in the neck caused by too high pillow are several common causes of the reduced blood supply to the brain during sleep at night. In particular, anyone with too high pillow during sleep is bound to have sleep paralysis repeatedly all night. This terrible the reduced blood supply to the brain is more likely to occur during waking up during the day than during sleep at night.
It can happen when wake from sleep as during sleep blood pressure is usually very low and sudden standing and walking might not instantly trigger nervous system to raise bp or raise heart rate (to reach blood to brain). if both of these won't kick in fast lightheadness and even fainting can occur. Fainting is body's natural way to reach more blood to brain as when lying flat on ground heart and brain on same level.
There is tip to reduce it.
An EEG, or electroencephalogram, looks for seizure activity in the brain by monitoring electrical activity in the brain using electrodes pasted on the surface of the head. A sleep EEG is done while the person is sleeping. Here is more information:
http://www.medhelp.org/medical-information/show/899/EEG
(For those in our forum who aren't familiar with the initialism "PLMS," that's periodic limb movements in sleep, also known as PLMD, or periodic limb movement disorder.
My 14 yrs old has had fainting spells since she was in first grade. Her fainting spells looked like she was having a seizure. After she had several fainting spells, she was tested for seizures but all the test came back negative. About three years ago we find out she has an enlarged thyroid and hypothyroidism. About six months ago, she had a sleep study done because she waking up ever couple hours every night. The study showed that she was having seizures every couple minutes.
EMS arrived and did some tests before taking me to our local teaching hospital where I was admitted to emergency. During this latter time the severe pain abated but I felt a slight pressure in the chest. During a period of six hours they gave me 2 ECG's, a chest Xray and two blood tests, all the while monitoring my blood pressure and pulse. There were no problems with any of the tests. There was no evidence of a heart attack or stroke. There was no heart damage.
Fainting, dizziness or vertigo could be due to inner ear disturbances, meniere ’s disease, labyrinthitis, hypo and hypertension, cardiac rhythm disturbances, orthostatic hypotension, an MRI brain has been done for brain tumors and aneurysms. Has anemia been ruled out in the blood work up? Anemia due to heavy periods is a common cause of fainting in menstruating females.
sleep apnea, restless leg, and 15 episodes of third degree heart block which occurred during the sleep study. We had been sent back to our pediatric cardiologist (she had previously been diagnosed with moderate prolonged QT). She also has periodic fainting spells with convulsive like movements (EEG's all normal).
Here is my question: Could any of this be due to Chiari I. Should I insist that she be tested for this?
The fainting/racing heart episodes did not co-incide with the low heart rate at all, her heart was normal during the documented fainting/racing heart episodes, and she had a traedmill test which showed her heart to function normally during physical activity, She continues to play sports, Track, Soccer, Snowboarding, Wakeboarding with no ill effects. The Cardiologist is talking Pacemaker to regulate her heart during sleep. Any input?
But the most likely reasons behind it certainly are. And the results of it could be if you were to injure yourself in a fall during a fainting spell or fall into the water and not "come to" immediately. So, I really hope that you'll make an appointment to see your doctor to get to the bottom of ALL these issues.
My mother has had bouts of fainting and light headedness. Sometimes they come weekly and other times not for 2 months. This has been going on since 2007. She has been admitted to hospital on a number of occasions but each time they have not come to any conclusions as to a diagnosis.
These attacks of light headedness last 2-5 minutes. She slurs her speech, gets pins and needles in her arms, and sometimes but not always faints.
Hi,
I have fainted several times per year since I was a very little girl. More seizure like than faint, told not epilepsy, but "just phrone to fainting". I learnt to have high salt diet and reads the signs of when one was coming on, often laying down with feet up seemed to help...but not all the time.
Was told I'd grow out of it, which seemd to be the case when started to happen less (ie only once a year)....but during my late 20s I started to get them around every 4-6mths.
I have ADHd, Bipolar, Depression, PTSD, OCD,anxiety and panic disorder and Social anxiety disorder. I also get frequent dizzy and fainting spells, and have had problems managing my sugar and salt intake for a while.It's like my body is use to a certain level of sugar, and when it goes too long without that amount, my body crashes. I am 6 months pregnant, and this is my second child. I had 9 miscarriages before I was able to hold my first daughter.
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