FAINTING/ANXIETY

Hi guys I am new here. Hope everyone is fairing well today.

Has anyone here heard of Vaso-Vegal Syncope?

My daughter has been diagnosed with this. It's the most frightening thing I have ever witnessed. It has happened to her during assembly at school when they show films about car accidents. Same thing with the drug overdoses.

Than goodness for the most horrific episode she was at home. She was quite excited as her boyfriend was coming home from college for a visit. She was really in an upbeat mood. She was reading a magazine on her bed, and came bounding downstairs asking me if I was ready to pick the guy up at the airport.

Well, coming down the step on about the third one she slipped a bit and hit her coccyx bone. She yelled "Ouch", and then says "Mom I am going to go out".

What transpired is something no parents should have to see. As quick as I grabbed her I literally saw her face go ashen gray and then white. Her lips were like something out of a horror movie as they lost all color. I ran to call an ambulance, and my sister held her up in a sitting position. She kept talking to her, and my daughters head slumped over. The 911 lady was telling me to put her feet higher than her head. My sister refused. She had her sitting against the wall, and just kept talking to her and shaking her.

Here when the EMT's got here she was in SHOCK. Her BP was so low like a 40 something. They hooked her up to some IV thing, and she was starting to come to, but talking weird. Needless to say a battery of tests followed. Every test you can imagine. Her electrolites were perfect. All the heart tests beautiful. So, they come to tell me it's this vaso-vegal. SALT!!!!!!!!!!!! That's the script they gave me for her.

It happened again when she plopped on a chair, and banged her leg, and arm. BAM. Here we go again.

In my heart I believe it is an emotional response to pain physically, and emotionally. She has anxiety. Well, and a few other things, and I see it happen when she is excited or upset.

Thanks in advance. I figured she is not the only one with this.

I can only suggest she will need to learn new ways of coping with excitement and calming and relaxing herself
teach her to breathe deep and slow when excited and to not hold her breath, some people forget to breathe when excited or frightened

Ive heard of people fainting from stress or anxiety or joy
ironically if she faints and falls down, this is the best recovery position

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hello everyone

i fainted a lot whilei was a teenager at the weirdest times with no apparent reason according to drs. to make long story short - my anxiety would cause me to hyperventilate juuust a little bit but long enough to sometimes cause me to pass out. sometimes it would happen also when i would work out - heat exhaustion. sometimes it would happen if i hit a pressure point - like whacking my elbow or kneecap,and my blood pressure hit the floor. but most of the time it was the anxiety thing. it happened so often, it got to the point, i could control it long enough to get to a safe place (sometimes i was driving).

i finally found a dr who diagnosed it, he gave me some medication for my anxiety and it never happened again from that.

The same exact thing happened to me when I was 14. I was walking around New York City with my mom and all of a sudden I got a severe pain in my stomach that got worse by the second. I leaned on the wall and just slowly started losing conscious. My mom said she lifted my face I was pale as a ghost. My lips, everything. She was terrified.


Ive fainted twice, and Ive almost fainted a bunch of times. I have low blood pressure, so I have to be careful.

I'm a lifetime sufferer since the age of 17.
Its Vaso-vagal as in slow heart beat, low blood pressure, involuntary dilation of blood vessels in the lower body that cause the drop in blood pressure.
The first time it happened after getting a shot.
A whole lot of episodes due to sharp intense pain.

Its come and gone for years at a time, with many inconsistant symtoms too numerous to mention.
The available information is not much to look at, its an ailment that very few people have, its no wonder that funding, descriptions and the associations that take years to make are a process that in this case is even slower.

The associations to be made between this syndrome and personalities/personality disorders, well, I'll check in once in a while to see if any progress is made.

Yes, I was told I had this as a kid. It happened every time I had blood drawn or if I had to have a medical exam of some kind (like a catscan or even getting contacts put in my eyes for the first time!).

Eventually, it just went away, and oddly, now I tend to go the other way. When I get anxious, my heart races and my blood pressure actually increases.

It sounds to me like she has an intense (perhaps subconscious) fear of pain or fear of her body being manipulated in some way. Not that I am one to diagnose, but yes, this is a real thing.

I never actually passed out, only "blacked out". Maybe she has low blood pressure to begin with, which makes this seem a lot worse (or rather causes it to be a lot worse than it should be). Maybe get her BP checked.

I am 24 years old and I am neither too skinny nor too overweight. My normal blood pressure on a day when I feel fine is 118/76. Though, I've found that when I get very lack of energy it drops to 108/74. People say my blood pressure is low but I don’t feel so. What is your opinion? Should I consult with a doctor immediately? Or can you explain me to make sense of blood pressure?

whitney357 wrote:I am 24 years old and I am neither too skinny nor too overweight. My normal blood pressure on a day when I feel fine is 118/76. Though, I've found that when I get very lack of energy it drops to 108/74. People say my blood pressure is low but I don’t feel so. What is your opinion? Should I consult with a doctor immediately? Or can you explain me to make sense of blood pressure?

My systolic BP (first number) has varied from 129 to 108. I think many factors, like diet, sleep etc affects it quite a bit. For example, going on a low-sodium diet helped lower it. At 129 it was called borderline hypertension, but at 108 it was called quite healthy. Your BP sounds like it falls within what I've experienced. Why does it worry you?

Anxiety and fear cause faster breathing both in people with and without Anxiety Disorders. Hyperventilation often begins as a reaction to a feeling that the person cannot catch his or her breath. The changes caused by hyperventilation further frighten the person, and a vicious cycle of over breathing and greater fear ensues. Nearly all of the symptoms associated with panic can be caused by hyperventilation.