Thank you Shezbut! That is a lot of information. Yeah I did quite a bit of research when it all started but some of the things in there I didn't know. Especially about low blood pressure which I never looked up. I should have... I'm not sure if that's what is going on with me but it is something I should probably bring up with the doctor. Every time I go into the doctors office my blood pressure is on the low side. They aren't alarmed by how low it is but it's just lower than normal. Same with my mom. It was mentioned though by a previous doctor that I may have an issue with low blood pressure and suggested doing a test where I lay down in the bed and they take my blood pressure, I sit up and they take it then I stand and they take it again. I move a lot though so I never got the text done. Strange thing I just realized though, almost every test I have needed to take to find out why things are happening, something happens where I can't have the test done. Only test I have had was an MRI on my back. It showed "degenerative disc disease" as they called it. I've learned to tolerate the pain for the most part since I don't like taking medicine.
I used to get Kidney Infections, my first when I was only 7. I would get one every 5 weeks. Full blown horrible kidney infections. I finally got a chance to see a Urologist and had my first appointment with him and he says he wants to use a camera to look in the bladder and kidneys. 2 days before the appointment for that I found out I was pregnant and the doctor didn't think it was safe.
I get really bad chest pain sometimes. It feels like someone is wrapping their hand around my heart and squeezing it. Not all the time but it's bad. It only lasts a few minutes for the most part. Well I went to see the doc about that. They wanted to do an ultrasound on my heart and do a stress test. I left my crazy abusive ex a few days before and moved to the otherside of the country.
Now I need an MRI and was scheduled to get the referral for one and 2 days before the doctors call and postpone it until October. This kind of thing has happened more than just these. Gotta figure that out lol.
The first major time I lost consciousness in a medical way (I have always had blackouts and it seems each time something different happens) I was at work. It was my first day of work and only 30 minutes into my shift. I was standing next to the girl showing me how things worked and all of a sudden darkness started caving in. All I remember that I felt was my head really heavy and full of pressure and black. I woke up feeling like someone was pulling me back into my body and everyone was over me. At first they sounded like the teacher on Charlie Brown, the "Wa Wa Wa" noise. After a few seconds I could hear and everyone was asking if I was OK and if I had ever fainted before. I hadn't. I went and sat at the table and they gave me water. I sipped on it for a second while she was asking me about my (the girl training me) medical history. I was really confused and wasn't able to answer most questions. I quickly felt sick and started throwing up. Threw up the entire way home (I drove) and when I got home I was so tired I couldn't go to the hospital, I took a nap. I woke up and went to the hospital and called my work to find out the details. They said I just fell to the floor my eyes closed and I stopped breathing. It lasted nearly 3 minutes and I wasn't breathing.
The second instance was the mushroom instance. I was feeling fine. I went to the bathroom and stood in there a minute looking in the mirror. I walked down the long hallway and about 2 steps before I got to the living room the darkness started caving in. I turn the corner (not thinking much about the dark since it happens all the time but not like this, most of the time it doesn't take over it just tries to.) and flop onto the couch with my legs over my boyfriends. That's the last thing I remember. Everything was black and I saw a spinning wheel of colors. The spinning wheel eventually zipped into nothingness with a quite whoosh noise and it was black for a few moments. Then I woke up and everyone was standing over me checking my pulse and my boyfriend freaking out. The table that was one in front of me had been pushed into the middle of the living room and I was on the ground. I could hear better this time when I came back. I sat up on the couch while I told them I was OK and asked what happened. While they were telling me I started to get sick. Over and over and over. They told me that when I walked back into the living room they thought everything was fine. My boyfriend looked over at me and saw that my shirt was showing my stomach. He knows me pretty well and knows how insecure and self conscious I am over my stomach since I lost all of my weight and had a baby so he knew something was off and looked at me and asked if I was OK. When I didn't respond he said it again louder and everyone else started looking at me. He noticed I was shaking and my eyes (the lights were off just the TV was on, we were watching Freddie Got Fingered, a horrible movie for that night) were rolled into the back of my head. He apparently grabbed me to try and calm me down and the shaking got worse. After a few seconds my body tensed. My neck twisted into an S shape apparently and my arms went in front of me and my inner elbows pointing to everyone bending forward. That lasted for a few seconds and then my body went limp. He said he didn't try to force me to stay up so he let me fall to the floor but softened the fall pretty much. He said it looked like I wasn't breathing and they all thought that I had died then. He went for my pulse and I woke up. It lasted about a minute and a half.
A few days later and I get that dark feeling and the next thing I know I'm feeling all strange and confused and asking what happened and I know something happened. We were in the car both times, the first time my boyfriend was driving and didn't see anything. The second time we were parked and my eyes kept moving back and forth. Both of these only lasted a few seconds though. Thankfully.
I've also had another blackout where I went to the hospital but it's much different. Like they all are. It started while I was sitting watching TV, no drugs or anything like the doctors always ask. I hadn't even taken tylenol. I just lost consciousness but my body didn't. I was talking. Repeating that I was going to die. I couldn't breath apparently and was vomiting uncontrollably. I remember flashes from that night. I would come back for about 45 seconds before the black came back. I was so confused and not sure why I was at the hospital. I was crawling on the floor crying yelling how I was going to die and throwing up everywhere. I had felt just fine only moments before. Everything seems to be different. So many things seem to be wrong it's frustrating, I hope it's not all of these different things and it's just one thing that can be fixed causing all of these symptoms maybe? Thank you so much for you reply, it was as the rest of them have been, very informative. You've helped me yet again lol. I'll be sure to mention the low blood pressure to the doctor when I see him in October. Thanks for the reply again!!!! Thank you so much and sorry for rambling so much!!!!!
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