Have you ever fainted? (Warning: Not for the weak at heart)

Hopefully it wasn't the swine flu that got to u, if not u are gonna be qurantine at home for at least a week or so!! Well, i have never fainted before so far, and thus i wont know how the feeling is like.. hehe ^_^ BUt there are times whereby i almost fainted due to dehydration as well as hunger.. Those feeling of gonna faint can be very sudden and it depends on our willpower as well.. If one really holds on and dun wanna faint, it's possible to do so, but it's gonna be very difficult.. hehe ^_^ Hopefully, u will be able to recover from your flu soon, as it's not a nice feeling to be sick for too long ^_^

oh yes, there was a time when i did not know i was pregnant with my second baby and i was walking by the street and its a good thing iwas with my husband, i was getting dizzy and i thought i could still handle it. i just fainted right then and there. it was my huby who got me! it was a weird experience.

Goodness, I do hope you get to feeling better soon. I have come close to fainting a few times, but do not believe I have ever actually passed out. The most vivid memory of such a spell was from when I was 16 and was at my aunt's wedding. The church was very crowded and there was little to no air flow. I told my mother that I was feeling strange - and I was shaking all over and got hot and sweaty all at a sudden. She said YOU ARE GOING TO PASS OUT and forced me to put my head between my knees. After my episode passed she took me outside for fresh air. I recall the feeling as being frightening. my son was sick last month - major sinus infection - around his eyes so they were bulging out as well as other sinus pockets were just filled with infection. Anyhow, he lives in a boarding house (going to school) and when he was praying night prayers with the other kids he just toppled over.... out cold. They said he hit hard, but was only out for less than a minute.

Sacmom, how are you feeling right now? I hope you will be well before Mother's day. My mom is also sick. I also fainted before while at work. I just feel numb all over and when I woke up I found myself in a small clinic. My lips are pale and my hands was color violet. The doctor said I was low blood, he recommended me to take Iron.

It seems that your symptoms are serious. As usually a flu won't lead you to faint. Do you have a fever? I think the fever is an important sign to see whether you have the swine flu. So far I know that the swine flu will have fever, cough and other flu symptoms. But since you are feeling so badly, I do suggest you go to see a doctor. I don't think you are having the swine flu, but I am concerned about whether you have some other problems. I love China

Hi friend, Till now i have not been fainted.I am doing well.Becareful friend about your health as if you are healthy only you can do wonders otherwise it is difficult to do your daily routine itself.Try to take medicine and recover soon. Have a nice day

It sounds terrible. You really should have been checked out by a doctor to make sure it isn't that new M1N1 flu. I have never fainted but my husband blacked out in church last month. I was up on the altar saying the Prayers of the Faithful when I noticed another parishioner crouched down next to our pew. I read the first prayer, looked up and saw two people trying to hold my husband up. I forged on looking up after each prayer and holding back tears. When I got to my husband's side he was not speaking. His eyes were open but he was unresponsive and sweating profusely, then he vomitted. He looked like was having a stroke. Scared the living sh*t out of me. We left in the ambulance together and is still undergoing tests to find out what is wrong. He doesn't remember any of it from the time I went up to the altar until the priest annointed him, which was just before two people helped him to the back of the church. He, like the "man" that he is, keeps brushing it off as nothing but I keep telling him he doesn't remember it and he didn't see what I saw. I know the symptoms of a stroke and he seemed to be having one as he told us later he was feeling very tired and his shoulders ached; he got dizzy and fell forward. I know that if it hadn't happened in a public place my husband wouldn't have gone to the hospital. I am grateful it happened where it did. The people of our church have been very, very supportive. Seeing as you passed out, I really think you should see a doctor. This is a really severe flu bug you have and I think if you saw someone else going through it you would insist that they see a doctor. Hope you feel better soon.

I'm so sorry that you had to experience this yucky flu.I hope that you are feeling better now. Let's see have I ever fainted yep I think three times in my life. I'll tell you about the first time I ever fainted. I was pregnant with my first child and they had me fast for 24hours to do that 3 hour sugar test. Yuck. But I drank that stuff that they gave me and my eyes wanted to bug out over the amount of sugar yuck, and I went in to get the first hour of blood taken and the nurse one couldn't find a vein and kept poking me and then when she decided to use a butterfly needle thing it came out so slow and then I was telling her that I felt hot and that I was starting to see grey the last thing i remember is these two army nurse guys rushing to catch me before i passed out. LOL!! When I came to they had someone escort me to a room where they finished the testing and then told me I wasn't allowed to drive and that I needed someone to drive me home and take me to get something to eat. go figure.

I fainted once when I was about 18...I had given blood & I had my monthly friend at the time & silly me went grocery shopping with my mom afterwards so I fainted in the middle of the fruit & vege shop. Needless to say, I don't give blood at that time of the month anymore.

I have passed out a couple of times. And the reason was my anxiety. I stress myself so very badly that I actually have diarrhea and throw up. I just literally worry myself sick. I can imagine that you felt like real crap. I hope that you are feeling better now though.

Well, I have never fainted, or blanked out really. Get well soon.

Yes, I have this sort of experience before... way back to high school time, I was having a super duper painful monthly period experience... I felt really really painful when we were having an assemble on the ground under the sun, I just get fainted and fell down on the floor... that was awful, all I was able to see was a piece of gray then I fainted... by the time I woke up, I was in the sick room! That was kind of scary.

I had this one time, I'm looking for a job and roam around the hot city of Manila. I went into buildings and buildings and I had this interview waiting for the rest of the day. With the hot sun outside and cold aircon inside the building, I fainted when I was walking my way home. Glad to have a friend with me, he bought me to the nearby building and the security guards gave me a glass of water. After that, I felt better.

Wow, I am so sorry you went through this, did you ever find out what it was? how scared you must have been, I must say I have never been that sick and would not want to be, I have ben dizzy due to high blood pressure but I never passed out, that was scary I bet, take care of yourself, trying t catch up on my friends discussions and your post are great, hope everything is o.k

Please be very careful! If you had hit your head, this eould have been serious, even fatal. Remember Natasha Richardson? I know that it's hard, but do try to stay in bed if you are feeling weak. I had a flu New Year's Eve and into the new year, and it was hell, so I know how it feels. I hope you feel better soon!

Goodness. I wish you an accelerated speedy recovery from this. My story is not quite as gross. Back in 1968 my mother married an army sergeant and at the age of nine, after living in California for as far back as I can remember, we moved to Germany. There I had periods of high fever that produced interesting hallucinations - for example, looking at the dry wall walls with the random patterns that seemed to be animated as I stared at them with the fever I had. The second tour of duty upped that up a notch with a grand mal seizure, circa 1972 - I was in English class. It was the lunch period, and they scheduled it interestingly - the period was not the usual 60 minutes, but 90 minutes. 1/3 of the school took their lunch in the first mini-period of 30 minutes, 1/3 the next 30, and 1/3 the last 30 minutes. This particular year, I fell into the middle, I take the first half of the English class, take 30 minutes for lunch, and finish the same class. Something was happening during the first part. There was construction on the property, and I already knew sawed wood made me feeling funny but, being the typical male, I thought I could handle what was coming. WRONG ! I remember I was seeing a flashing light on the upper right corner of my vision, but then it moved on it's own, exploding multiple times as it moved to the right. I woke in the nurses' office with a headache. They put me on dilantin, and took me off when I was no longer under military care, at 21 years of age. No one knows what caused the high fevers in my youth... ... No one knows what caused the seizure later in my adolescence ... ... and there is no one who is interested in finding out, and I do not have the resources by myself to find out.

You poor thing! I hope you feel better soon and that it really is not the Swine Flu after all. I heard on the news that the strain has been found to be not as bad as originally thought.

Sacmom I am sorry to hear that.Do you feel more better now? It sounds terrible no matter flu or swine flu .I want to say especial swine flu.it is a terrbile sick.and now it was spread many country.We must do more thing protect ourselve if possible don't go to the public palce.and don't travel in the special time

some people are more suseptible to fainting than others. I have a friend who faints almost weekly if she doesn't get enough sleep and proper nutrition. I once got up to quickly from my bed and ran to brush my teeth and take a piss (doing both at the same time), and then I had this black fog like thing pulsating from the sides of my eyes and I knew something was up, so I tried to run back to my bed with no success. I fell on the floor, dragging a computer monitor down with me.

Once not because of swine flu but just a minor accident to the head, then I was unconscious for a 5 minutes.