Posted by noa on October 24, 2000, at 7:22:58
I fainted this morning. I was sitting at my computer, and yawned, and felt myself begin to black out. Now, I have "greyed" out in the past, not much recently, but when that happens, I haven't actually blacked out--until today.
But today, I felt myself black out, and the next thing I was aware of was dreaming, and waking up with a bad pain on the side of my head. Then it took a few seconds to realize I was on the floor. After that, a few seconds more to figure out where on the floor, and still more seconds to figure out what happened.
There is a a tender spot on the right side of my head but the all-around headache I felt for about 30 minutes after getting up, is gone.
I am so glad this happened from sitting in a chair and not in the shower!
The thing is, if I had been in the shower, I like to think I would have braced myself but because I was in a chair I didn't think anything could happen. Ok, that is naive. I was basing it on the experience of having nearly blacked out lots of times in my life but not actually blacking out.
The "greying out" used to happen a lot when I was taking higher doses of regular effexor several years back. It would happen when I yawned a big yawn, laughed really hard, or stood up fast.
I hope this is not due to the Adderall, which is the latest med added to my cocktail. Any thoughts?
Another possibility is that it could be related to having missed a few of my cytomel and serzone doses a few days back.
Also, once about 17-18 years ago, I fainted due to low iron. I guess I should check that out.
If any of you thinkit might be med related, please comment.
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