Ever Fainted? Here's a Poll

[MineralMan]

Choose the answer that fits best:

90 votes, 2 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	Yes, I have, at least once.
	44 (49%)
	Yes, I have, more than once.
	23 (26%)
	No, I haven't.
	21 (23%)
	I don't remember ever fainting.
	0 (0%)
	I would never faint. I'm strong and wouldn't allow that.
	0 (0%)
	Only wusses faint, dammit!
	0 (0%)
	I hate this poll.
	0 (0%)
	I'm not going to answer that. It might make me look weak.
	1 (1%)
	What do you meant by faint?
	0 (0%)
	I like to vote in polls.
	1 (1%)
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[MineralMan]

1. Kick this if you want to see more responses, please.

[uppityperson]

2. Of course I have, mostly as a youngster feeling invincible.

[trof]

3. done

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. I have never fainted, but I have come close a couple of times.

It was a reaction to a medication for my heart rate. I got very light-headed, realized what was happening, got my head down at once, and then I was fine.

I reported it to my cardiologist, he had me stop the medication, and that was that.

[MohRokTah]

5. 17 years old on my second day of Basic Combat Training, Ft. Gordon GA.

I came from the North and started BCT during a massive heat wave first part of June.

Heat Exhaustion. Shade and water fixed it in a few minutes.

[anoNY42]

54. Heh, I fainted on the day we got all our shots in reception

and I wasn't even afraid of needles!

[Island Blue]

6. I have fainted several times

all because blood and or injuries were being shown or talked about. I fainted in health class in Jr. High, in drivers ed in high school (movie where car meets train), and a couple of times at work when watching a required first aid movie. Ironically I'm also accident prone and have never fainted after I've broken a bone or gotten hurt. It is a really crappy feeling when you realize you're about to pass out.

[hlthe2b]

7. Yes, at the dog park in subzero temps after a week-long migraine spell brought on by extreme cold

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So, no, it is not only hot weather that can trigger. As it turns out, the migraine (and the toll that a lot of excedrin did to my stomach) kept me from eating enough and I was hypoglycemic and felt a very hot rush throughout my body right before I hit the deck. I am in better health than I was two decades ago and have no pre-existing health conditions--including normal BP... Only goes to show it can happen to anyone.

[Laffy Kat]

37. Me too, lots of times.

I'm hypoglycemic and I have to pay very close attention to my body. Sometimes by the time I realize my sugar is low I don't even have enough time to stuff my face with a carb.; I go out like a light. It's beyond embarrassing.

[NutmegYankee]

8. Several times.

Once from heat exhaustion, others from rising from a sitting position way too fast for my blood pressure to sustain me.

[nolabear]

9. Of course. All it means is that your circulation is a touch off for a minute.

No big deal.

[JustAnotherGen]

10. Vasovagal

If I'm kneeling for a long time and stand up too quick . . . Plop!

[Hell Hath No Fury]

11. I fainted/collapsed due to heat --

while doing landscaping. I experienced knee buckling and loss of conscious. I also made my way to the ER after coming to for a thorough check-up to make sure that I wasn't experiencing anything else since the collapse had come out of the blue and I was used to working under such conditions. Had an EEG and blood work-up. Came back as somewhat dehydrated and with protein in the urine. Was given the OK to head home. A very scary incident and very glad that I sought out medical attention after it happened. You can never be too careful.

[librarylu]

12. I got up too soon

after natural childbirth and conked out in the can. I didn't tell the nurses.

I almost passed out from putting my head back once when my blood pressure was really low.

I probably had mild heatstroke when I was a preteen. To this day I can't take much heat for long.

[duncang]

13. Had to go with the more then once

Once brought to hospital because also throwing up. Twice falling over and brought to our work medical department. Three times just handled on my own those were just real good woozy feelings like Hillary had. The twice to medical was due to the heat and the gear I was wearing.

[KMOD]

14. Yup.

twice I've fainted. Heat + dehydration = fainting.

[Liberal_in_LA]

19. Bad flu, dehydration, heat

[madamesilverspurs]

15. Tennis match, mid-morning.

We'd just started. I served twice, next thing I knew I was flat on my back under a tree with a wet cloth on my head and one of the guys fanning me with a piece of cardboard. This was about a month after I'd relocated from New Mexico to Virginia, and the unaccustomed heat and high humidity nailed me. It was a bit of a shock for a physically active 29-year-old.



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[RandySF]

16. I've come close.

A few times at work if I got busy and missed lunch.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

17. I never have, but my wife apparently used to faint quite a bit while in college and just after.

Anxiety related, as she had and has no health issues.

It's common.

[nolabels]

18. Well actually i didn't faint, i was knocked out

I was in an auto accident about forty years ago and ended up collapsing my custom three spoke steering around the other side of the steering column while trying to brace myself before my head impacted the dash board. Only lasted a few seconds and i walked away from it.

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

20. I have, twice

Both times on summer days with temps in the 80s.

[Me.]

21. Yes, From Heat

[Thirties Child]

22. Twice, as a child

First time, in the first grade, while simultaneously getting a diphtheria vaccination in one arm, small pox vaccination in the other. Assume this was from panic about getting the shots, not the shots themselves. Those were my first shots - this was way before antibiotics, way before Salk, way before infant vaccinations.

Second time, in the second grade, coming down with what I now recognize as mono. Diagnosis at the time was "yellow jaundice".

Mr. Thirties faints fairly often, thanks to his excessive sweating and consequent dehydration. Apparently both too much and too little sweating can be problems.

When I heard she'd fainted at a 911 memorial, my first thought was heat exhaustion.

[GreenEyedLefty]

23. I keeled over into the arms of the nurse who took blood for a fasting CBC.

I think I was out for just a few seconds but it felt like a long time.

[silverweb]

24. Twice.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]The first time was definitely heat related. I was about 12, on a trip with the Girl Scouts to Washington DC. We had been standing in the hot sun for a long time, awaiting our turn for the White House tour. Next thing I knew, I was looking up from the sidewalk and frightened chaperones were bending over me. Shade and hydration worked quite well, and I was fine for the rest of the trip.

The second time, I was about 29 and had just had outpatient surgery the day before. I stood up from my chair and awoke on the carpet, staring at the ceiling. The doctor said it was probably a drop in blood pressure related to residual anesthesia in my system. Rest and taking in more fluid ensured that it didn't happen again.


There are many, many benign reasons for fainting and it can happen to anyone at any age.

[appleannie1]

25. It is how I ended up with a badly broken arm. Out of no where, the world spun and I was down on

frozen ground.

[Warpy]

28. I broke a leg on the way down

Mine is from orthostatic tachycardia, something I'd been telling doctors for years. This time they bothered listening and I got my beta blocker and I'm doing fine. Leg finally healed, also.

[Kablooie]

26. I've only fainted on purpose.

In high school I'd take a few deep breaths then blow on my thumb and I'd pass out for a few seconds.

I was bored at a football game once and scared the people around me by doing this.

[MineralMan]

40. I remember that teen fad!

I don't think kids,do that right now, but it will come back, I'm sure.

[redstatebluegirl]

27. Twice in college, they never figured out why.

[RockaFowler]

29. I live in Florida

I've fainted a few times from being overheated. You just have to rest and relax a bit. My husband's trick is put your hand in cold water. It works every time. Oh and now I jump in the pool to cool down. Not an easy thing to do when you are dressed up, though.

[handmade34]

30. giving blood once

my blood flowed too fast

[ileus]

31. Only when giving blood...or rather after giving blood.

[Liberty Belle]

32. Yes, a reaction to LA smog.

Paramedics revived me, and it never happened again.

Came close to fainting a time or two during pregnancy, from blood pressure dropping when i bent over. And I was young , not older. Can happen to anyone.

[applegrove]

33. When I was about to be hit by a toboggan full of people who had picked up speed coming down a ski hi

I fainted the second before it hit me. I apparently flew up into the air like a rag doll, landed, woke up and had not one bruise or sore spot.

[Mass]

34. No, but I had pneumonia when I was in my 20s and it took me weeks to be 100% fine.

I certainly would not have been able to lead a campaign of any type.

[Adrahil]

35. I have not, but came close. NT

[rurallib]

36. had pleurisy (sp?) as a kid

kind of like pneumonia. Springtime I think, beautiful day.

[meow2u3]

38. I passed out from 100 degree heat 20 years ago

Turns out I didn't drink enough water while I was out in direct sunlight. Dehyrdated.

[yuiyoshida]

39. Passed out in a hospital

Not because I was ill, but I saw something unsettling, and I won't talk about it. In any case they gave me Orange juice and checked my blood pressure for a while, before letting me go.. Have to admit, passing out in the Hospital is probably the best place due to getting help fast.

[MurrayDelph]

41. No, but I've come close a couple of times.

Once, as a teenager, marching in a parade in Sacramento in the summer, and they made us all take salt tablets (BIG MISTAKE).

Once last year, when I became overheated just moving around the San Fernando Valley.

And two years ago, I was hospitalized for an intestinal blockage that they never did find the cause for, but suspect it to have been a complication of dehydration after attending Oregon Country Fair.

[NightWatcher]

42. Fainted, blacked out 2x, knocked out 3x, concussed 4x?

I've fainted and hit my head on a rock while rock hopping where I dislocated both shoulders, got a black eye, and a concussion.

I've been knocked out in football once (I was told) and twice in baseball, when a batter got me on the backswing ( I remember).

[NightWatcher]

43. Hey me too. I've fainted, blacked out, and been concussed a few times as well.

[NightWatcher]

44. Dude, small world, I've had a few head injuries myself.

[CrawlingChaos]

45. I have twice. Both incidents related to fasting

In my youth I would occasionally do three-day fasts. On the third day I had a couple incidents of the lights-out/face-plant variety. In public, of course. Very embarrassing.

[csziggy]

46. One faint - passed out about a week after a concussion

I was knocked in the head by a horse and was out for about ten minutes. A week or so later, went to a picnic with some friends and passed out. My husband was freaked, thought it was something to do with the concussion. At the emergency room they said I passed out from hyperventilation, but I started that when I came to while they were driving me to the hospital because I was panicked.

I've come close to passing out from over heating - spots in front of my eyes, feeling woozy - while working on the farm - I ran the hose over my head to cool off quickly. Twice after injuries - getting hit in the face with a horse's head and getting bitten on the breast, crushing the outside half of the breast - I went down to my knees, fighting shock while walking back to the house from the barn.

Then there were the other three concussions but those were not faints.

[Maru Kitteh]

47. Noro virus.

Went down a few times. Don't think there was anything left in my body. Felt like maybe I was turning into raisin from the inside out.

[Waldorf]

48. Yep, fainted once. It was health related. n/t

[dembotoz]

49. back in the day i fainted getting a tb skin test

i was working a summer job at a factory and everyone had to get one.
Nurse told me later that i was the only one in the history of the company that did that.

[belcffub]

50. Yes... I'm a firefighter...

It was hot... when I got out I didn't strip off some of my gear... it was weird... woke up on the ground outside wondering what everyone was doing in my bedroom... took a couple of minutes to get my bearings... then I was fine...

[ProfessorGAC]

51. Three Times

Once, i'm pretty sure i was dehydrated/lacking in electrolytes. Happened in the hotel after a day at the beach.

Once in an airplane restroom.

Once at the video store.

Each time was probably 15 to 18 years apart, so not exactly a recurring theme.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

52. No, I never have, but I felt close to it a few

times during my last pregnancy. Low blood sugar from not eating frequently enough made me feel really weak. I recall waiting in a long line at Walmart and I was so glad it was one of those rare times that my husband actually went shopping with me because I had to go sit down on a bench right away. I just couldn't stand in that line for another second. I've never felt like that outside of being pregnant, thankfully.

[Sunlei]

53. Who "fainted"?

[CanonRay]

55. When I got my finger smashed in a car door

It was about -20 outside, went into a warm restaurant holding my pancaked finger and hit the floor like a ton of bricks.

[OriginalGeek]

56. I've never fainted

but I have been knocked the fuck out a few times. High school football, work accident, car wrecks...


unless passing out blind drunk counts. But that was only twice. The second time was to remember why I didn't like doing that the first time and so far I haven't.

[MoonRiver]

57. Yes, twice.

Once due to an altitude change, when my family drove up a mountain in Colorado (I was a kid). The other time was due to overheating, which is actually a VERY real thing.

[KK9]

58. Yes, once..

When I was only 18 and perfectly healthy. 4:00am, standing on a small step ladder, braiding a horse's mane. Got dizzy, started going down, grabbed the horse's neck and almost pulled HIM off his feet, as he had been asleep. Good thing he woke up in time, so we didn't land in a pile on the floor of the barn, with me underneath him. Don't know why it happened, probably not enough sleep, not enough food, etc...