Anybody here ever blacked out?

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I stood up and walke to my closet and when i stood up i got really light headed. i grabbed the top of my closet door to stabilize myself till the lightheadedness went away. (this happens alot when i stand up, but usually lasts 2 to 3 seconds).

next thing i know i open my eyes and i was on the floor.

has this ever happened to anybody else? and is this something i should be worried about? This is the first time it's ever happened.
 
Well this happens to me when I'm drunk sometimes. It is a scary yet fun experience to blackout. It starts off by getting really dizzy and then you collaspe. If you hit a hard object you will regain consciousness faster.

Without liquor involved I would think you have high blood pressure which is often the reason for dizzyness.

Also when you blackedout did you have anything to eat?
 
well i was at the doctor last week to get my back checked out and they took my blood pressure and didnt say anything was abnormal about it so i doubt its that.

i had just eated lunch a couple of hours earlier
 
That happens to anyone. If you're laying flat on your back, then get up really fast, your brain gets confused, just as if you were to spin around and get dizzzy. Your brain takes a second to get from "Lying Down" mode to "Standing up" mode.

And no, I've never blacked out.
 
Are you Epeletic? Forgive my horrible spelling. You should definately go back to see a doctor if you fainted without reason.
 
[quote name='VanillaGorilla']That happens to anyone. If you're laying flat on your back, then get up really fast, your brain gets confused, just as if you were to spin around and get dizzzy. Your brain takes a second to get from "Lying Down" mode to "Standing up" mode.

And no, I've never blacked out.[/QUOTE]

just what I was going to say. if your laying down and pop up your brain doesn't get the blood it needs so you go nighty night for a few seconds.
 
well i wasnt layin on my back, i was sittin on the floor. but i guess i did get up kinda fast. My first thought is that i jus got up too fast, but i've never actually blacked out so it kinda worried me
 
[quote name='VanillaGorilla']That happens to anyone. If you're laying flat on your back, then get up really fast, your brain gets confused, just as if you were to spin around and get dizzzy. Your brain takes a second to get from "Lying Down" mode to "Standing up" mode.

And no, I've never blacked out.[/QUOTE]
It's not that your "brain gets confused", it's just a sudden shift in the blow flow in your body from sitting down to standing position. The standing up shifts more blood to your lower extremeties, therefore away from the brain. Less blood=less oxygen=goodnight.

I based this on personal knowledge and nothing more. Oh and I haven't blacked out like that before, but I do get that sensation alot.

[quote name='Cracka']well i wasnt layin on my back, i was sittin on the floor. but i guess i did get up kinda fast. My first thought is that i jus got up too fast, but i've never actually blacked out so it kinda worried me[/QUOTE]
You'll be fine.
 
happened this past Saturday night from a combo of wwwwwaaaaayyyyyyy too much beer (over 15), a bottle of Hynoptiq and a unfathomable amount of Gin and Tonic shots. My last college party before I head to law school, its all slowly coming back to me. It was amazing that I did not have a hangover the next morning (afternoon). Def will try not to have another night like this ever again.
 
I understand what you mean OP, I get the same things occasionally when I jump out of bed in the morning really quickly for some reason but I have never blacked out from it before.
 
Yes sir. Obviously from alcohol, but also w/o alcohol.

Oh about 4-5 years ago during my sophomore year of college, I wasn't feeling well, but forced myself to get up and go to my night class. Well, I hadn't really eaten anything that day since all I was doing was resting. Once the class ended I was feeling very light headed, I got up and started walking and things kinda seemed blurry next thing I know, I hear a "crash" and a few people saying "oh my God, is he alright?" and so forth. What I didn't know until a moment later that the "crash" and "he" were me. I came to and someone helped me get some water. I felt fine when I got back up, but one of the professor assistants still accompanied me back to my nearby dorm.

The only other time I blacked out was after basketball class, my junior year of high school. Again, I was feeling very sick, I sprained my ankle during a game and took a real hard shot to the head. Needless to say all that left me feeling a little woozy. After the class was over, I went to the coach's office to check the injury and get ice. Well, they told me I'd be fine and when I got up and went to walk to the locker room, I blacked out. Next thing I knew I was on the gym floor with the coach asking if I was alright. Apparently he caught me before my head slammed into the court, which is most fortunate. The look on the coach's face was priceless when I showed up the next day. He was sure I'd take it off since it was the last day before Christmas break. He was even more shocked when I insisted on playing that day.

Those 2 bizarre experiences are the only ones. I'm pretty sure both were just because I was sick and putting my body under extra stress that it didn't need, but I cannot tell you for sure.
 
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OP, I'd get an EKG from your doctor just to make sure. Sometimes congenital heart disease can cause fainting spells and could be potentially dangerous. I don't mean to scare you but a good friend of mine from college died suddenly in the shower from an undiagnosed heart condition and he had fainting spells too. Assuming that you're young (in your 20's) any sudden spontaneous fainitng spell should be taken seriously.
 
The whole lightheaded thing happens to me too, sometimes. From my understanding, it can happen because you're dehydrated, hungry, and/or get up too quickly, besides diseases and alcohol.
 
[quote name='dopa345']OP, I'd get an EKG from your doctor just to make sure. Sometimes congenital heart disease can cause fainting spells and could be potentially dangerous. I don't mean to scare you but a good friend of mine from college died suddenly in the shower from an undiagnosed heart condition and he had fainting spells too. Assuming that you're young (in your 20's) any sudden spontaneous fainitng spell should be taken seriously.[/quote]

Dopa is our resident M.D. :applause:

Where we can get solid FREE medical advice.

BTW, an EKG takes two minutes to do.
 
Actually, this has happened to me three (almost four) times over the last year. My doctor sent me everywhere: cardiologist, neurologist, and even a urologist (not a pleasant visit). Although I'm glad to have covered all the bases on life-threatening causes, it was an expensive experience and just a little disappointing when my doctor said it was orthostatic hypotension possibly due to mild dehydration and told me to drink more fluids and get up slowly from now on.
 
i've gotten light headed but not blacked out easiest way to get rid of that problem don't starve and get up slowly
 
After a knee injury I was taking some amount of ibuprofen, and one morning accidentally took double and had no breakfast. Few hours later at school I was feeling really sick so I got up in the middle of class to go to the bathroom and puke, but everything just started fading out and I was at the front of the class telling the teacher I needed to puke and then I just remember hearing my head hit this thing on the side of the desk (didn't feel any of it) and people all talking about if I was alright or not. It was weird because after that passing out right there I started to feel a lot better immediately.

Then there was one time where I drank entirrrrrrrrrrrrrely too much and I hadn't even been drinking for too long. I was leaning up on a wall and then figured I'd go over and dance and thats when it hit me that I was fucked. I don't even remember what happened, but I might have just blacked out right there and then I was dragged out onto the front lawn and was told to force myself to throw up. My first and my worst hangover.

But yea I also get the "head rush" from getting up too quickly sometimes, not too often, but never totally blacked out from it.
 
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