Could this be a Seizure?

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08 May 2006, 12:36 pm

Last night, as I was getting ready to go to bed, I was using the bathroom, and getting ready to wash my hands in preparation to remove my contact lenses, when all of a sudden, I started to feel dizzy and weak. I felt the need to sit down, and then woke up on the bathroom floor in pain a few minutes later. --On the way down, I hit my back on the side of the bathtub, and had torn the shower curtain down in the process. -- I am unable to work today because of the fall, and am about to make a trip to a doctor to find out what may have caused this.

Still hurting from the fall, I managed to slowly pull myself off the floor, and went into the kitchen to sit down. I was drenched in sweat, and felt cold from this. I still felt weak from this.

I rule out low blood sugar as the cause of this due to the fact that I had eaten a large meal a few hours before, and finished off the meal with several cookies.

Something similar to this happened when I was fifteen, though I didn't hurt myself, and I think the cause that time was most likely low blood sugar.

Aside from the time when I was 15, ( year 1982) this has never happened to me before.

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08 May 2006, 12:54 pm

Did you stand up before you you got dizzy? Sometimes this happens to me when i get up quickly.

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08 May 2006, 12:57 pm

Maybe low blood pressure?

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08 May 2006, 1:51 pm

neongrl wrote:

Maybe low blood pressure?

More like high blood pressure if he had eaten a heavy meal.

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08 May 2006, 2:04 pm

Fogman wrote:

Did you close all the windows when you were taking the bath?
A long time in the bath perhaps?
Was the water temperature high enough to make the mirrors foggy?

It could be that you were out of oxygen...

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08 May 2006, 2:04 pm

Laz wrote:

neongrl wrote:

Maybe low blood pressure?

More like high blood pressure if he had eaten a heavy meal.

The description sounded like low blood pressure - a "syncopal spell". (My sister has them.) Can high blood pressure cause the same thing? Maybe it does and I've just never heard of it. I'm thinking that blood pressure probably isn't the most likely explanation though if this was a one-time thing.

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08 May 2006, 5:15 pm

cherubfish wrote:

I actually wasn't taking a bath or a shower at all, I was relieving myself.

I had been watching TV for a few hours and had gone upstairs to my bedroom to put my shoes back, then went to the bathroom.

After taking a trip to the Doctor's office today, I can't say that either high or low blood pressure was the culprit either, as my blood pressure tested at 104/70. I was given prescriptions for painkillers and muscle relaxant. Total cost of the visit was $108. Total cost to have the prescriptions filled $22.08, which luckily doesn't completely wipe out my cash supply until Friday, when I get paid.

I will most likely have to go to the Free Clinic tomorrow or Wednesday to get some further work done for blood sugar, and a chest X-Ray, to see if I damaged anything in the fall, which I don't believe I did.

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08 May 2006, 6:10 pm

neongrl wrote:

Laz wrote:

neongrl wrote:

Maybe low blood pressure?

More like high blood pressure if he had eaten a heavy meal.

Yeah. Heavy food consumption/alcohol/drugs that inhibit hormones controlling circulation system or all of them at once WHAM! The vast majority of people who think they have had their drink spiked who end up in A&E tend to actually be suffering the effects of hypertension excesserbated by alcohol.

My father collapsed like what fogman described over xmas. He did himself some quite nasty damage as well. That was due to his blood pressure going very high.

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09 May 2006, 3:40 am

Could it be Epilepsy?

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14 May 2006, 9:43 pm

It could be vertigo. My husband has this. They told him it is something deep in the ear that affects balance. Luckily he can go to the V.A. but they haven't found a treatment that works for him. But ther are some treatments that have worked for others. He has hit the floor quite abruptly before.

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15 May 2006, 10:35 am

Laz wrote:

neongrl wrote:

Maybe low blood pressure?

More like high blood pressure if he had eaten a heavy meal.

actually, eating lowers blood pressure temporaroly.
i have orthostatic hypotention and dysautonomia and it sounds like that.
when i stand up too quickly (or sneeze) i have fainting or near-finting spells.
you might want to ask your doctor for a tilt-table test.
there's a medicine called florinef that is commonly used for this and helps alot.

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