Posted by gardenergirl on June 20, 2008, at 7:27:57
Last night I fainted or something after standing up and stretching. This is not new for me. I used to do it rather frequently as a teen, but they never came up with any explanation for it. About 10-15 years ago, I had a bunch of tilt-table testing and other stuff to rule out Benign Positional Vertigo since I get a sort of dizzy feeling when I lie down sometimes or lean back into the sink at the hairdresser's. Even when I look up to kiss my husband sometimes. (LOL, just looking at him makes me dizzy!) Nothing came of that, either.
But anyway, I haven't passed out since I was a teen. And I'm not sure "dizzy" or "vertigo" are the right terms, because what I feel when I lean back or stretch with a backward lean is a sort of pins and needles, tingling feeling in what can only be my diaphragm. If I don't stop the stretch fast enough, I can feel like I'm going to fall over, and in the last couple of years I've even felt jerking and twitching in my body while standing still trying to regain my bearings. I usually have to hold onto something solid for a minute or so until it passes.
Last night I stood up, did my usual stretch, and then found myself back in the office chair, twitching, jerking, and apparently not responding to my husband's voice, which I could hear at first but not understand. He said my eyes were twitching back and forth (nystagmus). I had no "warning" tingling sensation in my diaphragm this time. It was just stand up, stretch, and then come to in the chair.
Any idea what's going on? My best guess is that maybe I pinch off some cranial nerve when I stretch or lean back. Maybe a cranial nerve related to the autonomic nervous system?
And is it normal to twitch and jerk during a faint? I fear it's not.
Help???? I'm calling the doc today, and of course my mom, but I wish I had some idea what this was. EEG's, MRI's, tilt table tests (horrible!) didn't tell them anything, and I think that last doc thought I was just nuts. sigh
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
gg
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