Dizzy after standing up.

[Tynan]

ouch

quiet night night in looking after the kids, youngest in bed, up with my daughter and beer three, passed out/fainted while standing in the front room, came to face down on the floor with a very impressive and getting more impressive pool of blood and an understandably upset older daughter

clearly something bad to the forehead, a lot of teatowel work later (soaked through one until it was dripping through) it's more or less stopped bleeding, wife called back from a night out, neighbour from opposite sent to look after me, and off to A&E

an impressive 6in cut, later downgraded to laceration across my forehead just below the hairline, in the end it gets glue and a tet shot, and another ECG that tells me I'm fine, again

aches and pains and scrapes, banged knee, what's just like a punch over the left ribs, yanked my shoulder (yay), skinned knuckles

not good as it came more or less from nowhere, I think getting out of chairs is going to get to be a very slow operation from now on

and beer three completely lost, where I'm not sure, coming to to see it on it side mixing with the blood was a sad sight, the lady wife was upset abouit a green curry about to be brought to her at the time of the call

cardio appointment on the 3rd, fingers croosed for that

 

[The Jogger]

I had a similar type of thing while sitting at the computer, went straight to A&E had a load of heart tests, then had a stress test on the treadmill. The cardio guy, told me to keep doing what I was doing. I told him I had a marathon coming up, would it be ok to do it. He said yes. My regime then was about 35miles a week jogging, RHR 47 ish but they did find raised cholesterol, statins now which I'm happy about. They thought with me it could be a trapped nerve and left it at that.

 

[Tynan]

hey jogger, all the feedback I've had so far from the medicos has been like that, even though my heartbeat is very irregular they seem preety unfussed

but I simply can't be blacking out with no warning, life can't go on like that, sure it's after sitting down but 'being safe' for ten seconds everytime I have to get up for the future is going to be a bit of drag

mind you, I'm still not tired of being called 'an athelete'

 

[fossyant]

Blimey Tynan...... I get dizzy spells if I get up too fast, but not enough to faint.....do get it checked out - hope it works out......

 

[Tynan]

first time for me, although the dizzy spells I've had before have been very intense, enough tom make me fall if I didn't have something to hold onto

feeling much better today, I was quite skaen yesterday, not a nice thing to have happen

 

[fossyant]

First time..hell..... got these as a 'young fit cyclist' then as a 'fit older cyclist'.

I just bend over if I feel it come on - can say I have had one or two this week... fairly normal, but deffo get it checked if you've passed out. It was explained to me when younger, as the HR drops low, blood pressure is low, then you get up quick - the heart hasn't had time to respond to blood demands etc - it seems to be a fit person's issue.....you are probably A1 !!!!

 

[Tynan]

passing out without warning isn't A1 enough for me

otherwise, yeah I am in good nick

my pulse is very irregaulr, certain to be some sort of nerve block thingy rather than supreme fitness, although the cycling is doubtless complicating things

 

[hulver]

Booze is a very good vasodilator as well. A couple of beers would make any low blood pressure worse.

 

[Tynan]

yes hulver, thanks for that, I thought that, only two and a half 500ml bottles of strong lager though at the time (that's supposed to make it sound like not much)

I think a few beers, Friday night, sofa with the kids, relaxing and generally kicking back all contributed, something to be aware of in future or sure

I'm going to have to do my drinking in a special upright hard chair

one of the first things I remember as I came to was watching the half empty bottle of beer lying on its side glugging out fine Polish lager to mix with my blood, I reached out very weakly to try and set it straight and gave up

funny old business, I'm crashing around on the bike lately like a tornado, heatl is a funn old thing

 

[oslomike]

Hello Tynan,
This is my first post. It has to do with your episode of fainting. I too do quite a bit of daily commuter cycling and I fainted just today. I was doing a little research and found this thread. I was wondering if you ever discovered the main reason you fainted? Did you overcome it some how? If so, I would be interested to know. As of now, I too am not allowed by the doctor to either ride or drive until the MRI gets analysed and I see a cardiologist specialist. Ironically, I feel 100% fit. If you have anything to add, that would be good to know.
Thanks!
Mike

ouch

quiet night night in looking after the kids, youngest in bed, up with my daughter and beer three, passed out/fainted while standing in the front room, came to face down on the floor with a very impressive and getting more impressive pool of blood and an understandably upset older daughter

clearly something bad to the forehead, a lot of teatowel work later (soaked through one until it was dripping through) it's more or less stopped bleeding, wife called back from a night out, neighbour from opposite sent to look after me, and off to A&E

an impressive 6in cut, later downgraded to laceration across my forehead just below the hairline, in the end it gets glue and a tet shot, and another ECG that tells me I'm fine, again

aches and pains and scrapes, banged knee, what's just like a punch over the left ribs, yanked my shoulder (yay), skinned knuckles

not good as it came more or less from nowhere, I think getting out of chairs is going to get to be a very slow operation from now on

and beer three completely lost, where I'm not sure, coming to to see it on it side mixing with the blood was a sad sight, the lady wife was upset abouit a green curry about to be brought to her at the time of the call

cardio appointment on the 3rd, fingers croosed for that

 

[montage]

I am glad this thread has been revived - makes me feel better that so many people get this as well. I have usually just ignored it, just slow down a little, confident that no matter how bad it is I won't keel over. Until one day after a sleepless night I got up, went to pee, head rush came as I was peeing, tried to ignore it, next minute I had fallen backwards into the bath, with gf and gf's mother standing over me. I was only out for a few seconds, but it was enough to worry me for a while. You will also be glad to know that I had somehow put the wang away whilst it was going black, and not a drop was spilt.

 

[400bhp]

I get this.

Fark it I just need to man up.

 

[moo]

I have to kneel down and stand up a lot at work, which often results in dizzyness. On a hot day during summer I've been close to passing out and falling over - eyes rolling back and can feel you're about to go. I've had an ECG done and the results show nothing abnormal. My doctor puts it down to a very low resting heart rate (38 bpm).

This isn't a new thing as I recall having similar incidents 15+ years ago on the rare occasion I did any physical labour.

 

[Stephen C]

I get this as well, and it seems to be a symptom of a low heart rate. If you think about it, with a HR of 50, you've got to wait over a second for your next pulse, by which time you can stand up and be halfway to the kitchen, your body just needs a short time to readjust!

 

[ColinJ]

I get this as well, and it seems to be a symptom of a low heart rate. If you think about it, with a HR of 50, you've got to wait over a second for your next pulse, by which time you can stand up and be halfway to the kitchen, your body just needs a short time to readjust!

I used to get it a lot when I was fit and my HR at rest was in the low 30s - that was almost 2 seconds between beats!