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Have you ever fainted in a public place?
Wuthering
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I am 30 years old and have never fainted in my life, until today when I passed out at the post office while I was being served. It was awful, I just suddenly felt very, very sick and like I was going to vomit. I spent a couple of minutes trying to hold it together before pitifully mumbling "I don't feel well" and the next thing I knew I was on the floor with a very worried member of staff looking after me! I was put into the recovery position, given water, and had my details taken before my mum was able to come to my rescue and see me out.
Thankfully the post office is also a chemists and they sent me over to a nearby doctors just to make sure all was well. Turned out I had a Ventricular Tachycardia episode and it was likely down to how humid it was in the post office (it was seriously unbearable in there, I don't know how the poor staff cope).
The experience has me interested in whether this sort of thing has happened to any of you? I'm just hoping it won't happen again to me. The feeling right before I fainted was horrendous.
Thankfully the post office is also a chemists and they sent me over to a nearby doctors just to make sure all was well. Turned out I had a Ventricular Tachycardia episode and it was likely down to how humid it was in the post office (it was seriously unbearable in there, I don't know how the poor staff cope).
The experience has me interested in whether this sort of thing has happened to any of you? I'm just hoping it won't happen again to me. The feeling right before I fainted was horrendous.
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Never fainted completely in public but I fainted in front of my mum and seamstress at my wedding dress fitting! I remember that feeling so well before, I even said "I don't feel well" to my mum before I went.
Just try not to dwell on it and you'll be fine xxx
The last occasion was in 2006 when our old boss retired. We were all standing in the canteen listening to him ramble on about the good old days, and I started to feel very hot, with the room going dark and my ears ringing. Had to get out quick and sit in the loo, with my head between my legs. Like you I felt very sick, but in the end, wasn't.
It was my first day back following a fluey infection, so it was probably that. Felt much better after a few minutes.
He must have thought I was getting bored and couldn't listen anymore !!!
Anyway, hope you're feeling a bit more human now, OP
It was December so I thought i'd wear a jumper but in about the third pub I was sweating buckets.
I said a couple of times that I wasn't feeling too good and then just keeled over.
I only passed out for a couple of seconds and my mates got me up and took me outside for some fresh air.
I went home and went to bed early. Didn't get any sleep though but felt fine the next day. Not happened since.
All I can put it down to is the heat. ???
Thanks.
I was perfectly fine about an hour later but I was really lucky I didn't hit my head or otherwise injure myself when I went down.
I'm mainly just very bemused by it now, and feel a bit bad for causing such a fuss for the staff.
That was me until today - I've felt faint and very sick lots of times in my life but actually going all the way and passing out is a first!
I'm feeling fine now, thanks, apart from how humid it continues to be tonight. Got all my windows open and a big electric fan on!
It is very humid and uncomfortable, no doubt about it.
Turned out I'd had a big internal bleed and my blood pressure had dropped through the floor. It's the one and only time I've ever fainted!
When I was a kid I was clothes shopping with my sister, she was in the changing room and I was standing outside waiting, I started yawning a lot then I felt sick so I told my sister who got me a seat and a drink before I fainted
It happened twice more in my life, once when I was at the park with my mum and cousin and once when I was signing on
They were really kind to me, and very professional about it. A post office/chemist is no doubt one of the better places to fall ill in, and it really helps there is a doctors surgery a few feet along the road. I was lucky.
I was going through a teenage girl phase of not eating much at the time.
wait till you see a picture of me neked my beauty will astound you
I had to warn new boyfriends that if I ever said "I think I might faint" they had to get me into the fresh air pdq.
The last time I fainted was after falling down the pub stairs and knocking myself out when I hit my head on the door at the bottom. I came round to find myself surrounded by concerned looking people, pronounced myself fine, if a little over-refreshed, got up, took a few steps and fainted.
After that, I was under orders to use the cubicle in the gents if I'd more than 2 or 3 drinks, rather than go upstairs to the ladies.
Nah, that'd be like that film where the people who watch a certain video die...(or summat)
Ironically I think it's called The Ring...
thought that was a telephone call
One of my hobbies is model-making. One evening, many, many years ago I dropped a craft knife blade on the floor, knelt down to find it... and found it when it went point-first into my leg just above the knee. For a few days after that, my leg wouldn't bend at all. Then it would bend, just as long as I did it very slowly and very carefully.
Until a couple of weeks later when I spotted a new issue of Scale Models (long defunct title) on the bottom shelf at W H Smith and, without thinking, crouched down to pick it up. Had I been asked to rate the pain on a scale up to 10, I'd have asked for a scale going up to 11.
I stayed upright, but dread to think what I must have looked like. I certainly felt cold and clammy, with that "buzzing in the ears" and a distinct feeling of light-headedness.
I have been religious about keeping knife blades well away from the table's edge ever since.
I always used to get the buzzing sound, and my colour vision would fade to black and white as I fainted. Very strange.
I felt much better once I hit the ground really - probably the blood going back to my head.
I made the mistake of getting straight up and walking out, it started off as feeling really light headed which I'd experienced before when I normally have a 'sqeamish episode' but I thought it would just go away. As I made my way out of the hospital my vision started to blur and my hearing went funny, as I was reaching the main entrance I felt like I'd just been knocked over the head with a blunt instrument and next thing I know I wake up slumped on one of the waiting room chairs with strangers standing around me wondering where the hell I was. I always used to think that fainting was just like falling asleep, how wrong I was.
Was it just me or did anyone else see fireworks whilst they were passed out? :kitty:
Luckily no one saw this, so embarrassment was avoided.
Same here. I had no idea how ill you could feel from it/before it. I'll be more careful about going to certain places in extreme humidity from now on.
Nearly fainted again recently in the A&E after fracturing a couple of ribs. Got the cold, clammy feeling with the head buzzing but managed to stay upright. Not nice.