r/Syncope

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as title says. i fainted in September (on my birthday 🥲) for no obvious reason. i wasn't hot, dehydrated, hungry, stressed, upset. i hadn't just stood up or been standing for a long time. I went to the doctor's the day after who noticed I had a murmur so ordered a ECG and an echocardiogram. those were all fine, which is great! but I'm left with no answers.

It seriously knocked my confidence. there isn't a day that goes by where I don't worry about fainting again. I know I have no reason to believe it will happen again, but I also have no reason to believe it won't happen again, since it was so completely out of the blue.

hoooow do i move past this? if I'm not going to get a reason for it then i need some way to stop thinking it's going to happen again. I'm tired of stressing about it every time I leave the house. any advice will be greatly appreciated 🫡

So… my husband was having a tough morning. He’s a bit high strung and feeling a lot of pressure from work so he’s stressed, plus he’s overwhelmed with home life. Once in a while when he needs to check out for a bit he goes into his walk-in closet, turns off the light, closes the door, and takes his time regrouping. He’s easily in there for an hour or more. <—I’m saying this part so you hopefully don’t judge me. 🥴 He was pretty much over everything and marched his way into the closet, so as usual I let him be. I have 3 kids and 2 dogs to also care for, so I was busy with them in addition to trying to get the house back in order. My eldest and I heard some noise, but didn’t think more of it since my husband is always knocking things over. After a couple of hours I went to check on him and he was standing up, holding his head, and then somewhat hysterically started crying asking “why am I here??” several times. I was confused and asked him if he fell asleep, which I had assumed he did, but he kept repeating himself, at which point I had an oh $hit moment realizing he must’ve passed out and that was the noise. He didn’t remember walking in to the closet or being in there at all. He peed himself while unconscious. He landed on his right side so his right hip, arm, hand, and right side of his face were sore. He has a history of high BP since December, which has gotten better, and isn’t out at-home monitor his BP appeared normal when we checked about 30 minutes after he came to. He didn’t want to go be checked out even though I was pushing for it… Tell me how serious of an issue this is. He seems to listen to Reddit before anything else, so if you say he’s gotta be seen I think he’ll listen. To add, he’s 45 and scheduled to play on his local baseball league’s team tomorrow.

TLDR: husband fainted, I didn’t realize, he was out for probably 1.5-2 hours before coming to. He peed himself. Right side of his body hurt we assume from how he landed. He had some memory loss. He didn’t want to go to the ER or urgent care. His blood pressure has been elevated as of December.

30 female, white, height 5’2 weight 130-140 it fluctuates live in Midwest USA
Ok I’m gonna try to be as straight to the point but still give as much detail as possible, to start I’m a fairly healthy, active 30 year old female.. normal weight / I’m 130 pounds and about 5’2 .. I work out regularly and the only real medical issue I’ve ever dealt with is I was diagnosed years ago with chronic severe constipation which last year I was put on linzess… I don’t think that’s relevant to what happened the other day but it said to list all medications and past diagnoses…
Also last year I had a full workout from a cardiologist because my mom died of a heart attack at 55 and I just wanted to get checked out and they did a stress test on me in January this year and a really intricate heart ultra sound .. and everything came back normal only thing they saw was the VSD I was born with but otherwise they said my heart was looking great.

So a couple days ago I was getting ready to go into my night audit job at a hotel and I stopped by my friends house… not gonna lie I took a few puffs of a joint but mind you I’ve smoked weed my entire life, I don’t drink alcohol whatsoever I never really have but everybody has their thing and mine has always been weed I’m not a daily weed smoker but my whole life I’ve smoked fairly regularly like at least 3-5 times a month so that’s nothing new to me , yeah it had been a few weeks since I smoked weed but still I take a few hits and were sitting there in my friends kitchen and all of a sudden I got a massive wave of being hot like sweat was glistening off of me and everyone’s voices were starting to sound really weird idk how to even explain it (I’ve never experienced anything like that anytime in my life that I’ve smoked weed) so I waited 10-15 min til I got up and I just wanted to get outside since the air was cooler so I politely stood up and said well I better get to work I’ll see you guys later and i dont remeber much after that but my friends said they heard a huge crash at the front door and next thing i know i open my eyes and I’m on the floor obviously super embarrassed and confused so one of the guys helps me up and as i was coming to my other friend checked my blood sugar my blood pressure and put one of those finger clips on me (he’s a navy vet and has all this medical supplies handy) everything looked ok my heart rate was a bit elevated and I could feel my head was sore cuz i knew i had smacked my head hard as shit I think on the wall because I had a pretty bad busted lip and my face was super sore … well I sat there for 20-30 minutes drank water and eventually I felt ok they really didnt want me to go to work but I insisted I had to cuz nobody would cover for my last minute so my friends drove me to work because they didn’t want me driving anywhere which was fine … also for context yes I drank water all day and I had ate a rather large dinner around 7pm so I wasn’t dehydrated or hungry or anything —- also if it’s relevant I’ve only ever had one other fainting spell like that where I lost consciousness and I believe I was in 7th grade it wasn’t anything major but I did fall and hit the kitchen counter and when my mom took me to the er they said I had a concussion but I don’t remember it being quite as painful as this has been…

Here’s what’s concerning me… it’s been a little over 48 hours this happened Wednesday night at around 10pm and I feel ok for the most part but tonight I started to feel super nauseated I didn’t puke but just felt nauseous and my head and brain just kinda feel sore, my face feels better my busted lip mostly healed and when I feel around on my scalp I only feel one major sore spot which I assume is where I took the biggest blow. I’ve been very cautious about taking it easy and keeping tvs off and limiting my screen time in my phone as I know that strains your brain…

So my main question is does this warrant an emergency room or possible urgent care visit? I’m scared because I know head stuff is serious but I also am broke as shit working two jobs and really don’t want to add to my medical debt right now unless I absolutely have to yes I have insurance blue cross through work but still shits expensive and I don’t wanna go if it’s for nothing. And maybe me being worried about it is making my head hurt worse idk? I’m not usually a super freak about this kinda stuff but I’ve been reading a lot online tonight and I’m just scared. Any insight or opinions are so much appreciated. Thank you to all the docs on here that truly get on here to help people you guys are the bees knees for real. Much love and if you want or need anymore info or details from me please don’t hesitate to ask I’m an open book and I’ll tell you whatever. Hi

Hi everyone,
I’m not sure how to explain this properly, but I’m really scared and hoping someone here has experienced something similar.
I have had POTS for years, but in the last few days something new has been happening.
Sometimes, even when I am lying flat, I get episodes of presyncope (feeling like I’m about to faint). During these episodes, my blood pressure suddenly drops very low — around 50/40 or similar numbers.
This has happened multiple times in the last 2–3 days, and I have never had this before in all my years with POTS.
What scares me the most:
It happens while lying down, not just standing
The drop is very sudden and very low
I feel extremely weak, shaky, nauseous, and like I might pass out
Even after, I feel really bad for hours
Has anyone here:
experienced presyncope while lying down with POTS?
had sudden blood pressure drops this low?
noticed this happening suddenly after years of stable symptoms?
I’m really anxious because this feels completely different from my usual POTS symptoms.
Any experiences or advice would mean a lot 🙏