Meaning of fainting or syncope
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I heard first of all that i could have something called vasovagal syncope. im not entirely sure of its meaning but apparently i have shown some common symptoms such as loss of consciousness.
Another thing i found was being tired, difficult to engage with, feeling sick and/or loss of memory about the incident can be due to a concussion, where i have at some point experienced those things.
Don't get me wrong, im certainly no expert.
It could be postprandial hypotension, a drop in blood pressure that occurs after eating which can result in presyncope (dizziness, lightheadedness, weakness, almost fainting) or syncope (fainting) in some patients. A holter monitor does not measure blood pressure, so it would not rule out postprandial hypotension as a cause for syncope.
The various causes of syncope are central nervous system ischemia, vasovagal syncope may occur during urination, coughing etc, postural, cardiac syncope, neurological syncope, hypoglycemia, deglutition syncope associated with solids swallowing, cardiac includes cardiac arrhythmias, obstructive cardiac lesions, structural cardiopulmonary disease, sick sinus syndrome etc.
The association of syncope to RD was unrelated to chance or migraine. The temporal relation between syncope and Raynaud's phenomenon but not headache was statistically significant. Treatment with nifedipine stopped recurrent syncope in all patients. Syncope related to RD may result from brainstem ischemia. Unexplained recurrent syncope should prompt screening for RD."
Syncope and Raynaud's disease Arch Neurol. 2012 May;69(5):608-13.
Vasovagal syncope is a common type of fainting triggered by psychological or physical stress, such as seeing blood, straining during a bowel movement, or intense sexual activity (deep penetration hitting the cervix, which has lots of nerve endings), which causes your heart rate and blood pressure to briefly drop (you can confirm this with an automatic blood pressure cuff available online or at your local pharmacy).
And so, there is a lot of research ongoing to determine why vasovagal reactions occur and how to diagnose them. You see, while vasovagal syncope is the number one cause of fainting in children, it is sometimes difficult to identify this as the reason because there is currently no definitive test. This means that some children end up getting a lot of other fruitless tests looking for other causes of passing out.
Physiological symptoms of sleep paralysis are the same with those of syncope. Thus, sleep paralysis is caused by syncope. For experts in cardiovascular diseases, sleep paralysis or syncope is a common symptoms of cardiovascular disease【1】. For a long time, due to the ignorance of physiological knowledge of syncope , ischemie cerebrale ,palpitations and so on, psychological illusion in people’s sleep generated by such physical symptoms i.e.
since then I have followed the advice of several web sites in voiding situations that cause the fainting. For me it could be most prolonged bodily stress (a hot room, even while eating at restaurants, shock etc). If you feel bodily uncomfortable, it's best to lie down with your knees raised. In the last 6 years, I've only had 3 episodes, (2 of them in one night), and all 3 were due to a high fever and food poisoning.
Are her doctors not aware that this may be a direct consequence of the Coreg, or have they just decided that the Coreg is so essential to her treatment that they will have to work around this side effect rather than switching her from Coreg to another drug or changing the dosage of the Coreg?
(If you google for Coreg you can find any number of sites with the prescribing information about the drug. Here's some info right here on MedHelp: http://www.medhelp.
Hi,
The symptoms could be of vasovagal syncope. Loss of consciousness, twitching of muscles are a common feature of the syncope. The patient gets a feeling of warmth and sweats before fainting. Dizziness may occur. Please go for an MRI of the brain and a tilt stress test or postural stress test to find out the cause. If the jerks or shakiness is excessive, it could be epilepsy. It may be ruled out by the MRI which shows increased electrical activity in the brain in case of seizures.
Headache is like a nail going through left eye shooting out back of head. Also have stress headaches coming from neck shooting over top of head. Had brain aneurysm in 2004. Have tried about every drug for headaches, migraines, epilepsy and more. Have done eeg ekg catscans mri, can't remember all the other tests. I've been a human pin cushion for the last eight years. I haven't found anything that works or anybody that has same symptoms.
Have you veen sent to an electroohysiologist for a tilt table test to check you for POTs or neurocardiogenic syncope? I have many of the same symptoms as you. I was finally diagnosed with pots, neurocardiigenic syncope and orthostatic hypotension.
You should post this question on the dysautonomia forum. You should get some good advice there.
Yet, systolic function is normal, there was no late gandolium enhancement (meaning there is no evidence of scar tissue/fibrosis), wall motion was normal, and resting perfusion was normal (meaning no ischemia, at least at rest).
Still, it is concerning to me that so much dilation has developed. My LVEDD went from 46mm to 60mm. My LV walls went from 1.1cm to 0.5cm. The heart appears to be stretching and thinning and filling up with way more blood (LVEDV went from 117mL to 200mL).
We have lived through the diagnosis of POTs, dysautonomia, and vasovagal syncope. We were told you typically only treated the symptoms and avoided the triggers.
I am not a doctor, but it makes sense that if C1 or C2 vertebrae is putting pressure on the vasovagal nerve that it will cause dysautonomic symptoms. I recommend that you perform an x-ray to determine if you have a similar issue.
Does this make sense to anyone else?
s, but did show almost 6 hours of sinus tachycardia (peeking at 190 while walking and lasting for 30 minutes). This was the first time I have had an episode of palpitations, chest pain or syncope since my ablation. Is it true that it would likely NOT be VT considering my follow up holter showed almost no PVC's? Is it necessary to find out the type of arrhythmia it was even though it has only occurred once in the past 6 months?
Thanks for your assistance!
Tera, syncope isn't a diagnosis, it's a description of what's happening to you. Syncope means fainting.
I have no idea why they said it would go away, it isn't clear they've found a cause.
Typically fainting when you stand up is caused by low blood volume, which can be caused by dehydration.
I think you need to find a different doctor, who will attempt to find out what is the cause of this fainting.
Best wishes.
Recently I experienced a fainting spell, I have never fainted before. In the last 4 months or so I had shortness of breath while was not doing any activities, like sitting in the kitchen talking with my mom, or having a walk, I was not walking quick at all... or while watching TV.
I had ploblems with my heart rhythm before, EKG was normal, and after pushing a little they hooked me up in a 24 hour EKG (in Hungary/Europe).
Grubb very clearly describes convulsive syncope in his book The Fainting Phenomenon in his section on fainting from orthostatic hypotension:
"Observers tend to be most impressed by the convulsions, which usually, but not always, begin after the person is unconscious. The unconscious person may experience a long contraction (tonic) or an alternating contraction and relaxation (clonic) of the muscles in the arms and legs with a raising and backward throw of the head.
hi out there. I was diagnosed with neurocardiogenic syncope more than 15 years ago (1993). I took atenolol for a long time (maybe until 2002), and then stopped since it didn't work for the worst situations, and I learned to control or avoid the lesser situations so i didn't faint.
recently (the last 2 weeks or so), I have felt extreme fatigue in my legs. In the past I would get this after a fainting episode, and it would go away after a day or so.
I was fine for the next two months, with a couple of minor dizzy spells here and there. Then, about 5 weeks ago I had two more near fainting/diarrhea spells three days apart, which were quite scary. Over the next two weeks I was still weak and still having diarrhea/loose stool a few times a day, but eventually felt 100% for about three days. All Cardio tests (EKG, Echo, Holter moniter) were normal. The symptoms got very bad a few days later.
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