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Fainted/ almost blacked out?
13-f
So yesterday I was in the restroom, and I was kind of wasting time by playing on my phone and sitting on the counter near the door. I had the shower running, but it was right in the middle, so it was just room temperature water. There wasn't any mist or anything, because the mirror wasn't fogged up, and I had the fan on and my 'eva-dry' machine was on. (I was alo only in my panties)
I was texting when all of a sudden I kind of felt sick, like a 'I feel like I'm going to puke sick', and I set down my phone because I almost started gagging-- this was after about 15 minutes. And thats when I stood up. You know when You stand up too quickly and everything goes black for like 5 seconds? Thats what happened to me!! But wayy way worse. I was facing the counter and My legs felt wobbly and I collapse and busted my chin open on the counter, so I triend to stand up, but I was in a bit of shock and couldn't really stand up right (everything still had that dark look to it, too) and I fell on my bum and hit my head on a cabinet, so I just kinda fell asleep for a few seconds. When I eventually got up, I still felt that feeling where I stood up too quickly and everything had that black frame around it, so I got into the shower, and it was cold, but it felt good because I was really really hot.I put in shamppo but I put in wayy too much and dropped the bottle, and I kindof washed out, but I couldn't really tell. Then I got out of the restroom quickly and walked to my room, and collapsed on my bed and fell on my bed, and I put on a blanket and the feeling went away. I looked at the clock and this had all happened over 33 minutes. What happened???? more info- I'm 13 ,female, 5'2, around 90 lbs., and this has never happened to me before, also it was right in the morning at 8:00 and I hadn't eaten yet.
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I know how you feel, this has happened to me too. When I was taking a shower I felt very hot and everything was turning black and I felt dizzy so I got out and I felt extreme fatigue and fainted, but I went to the hospital and they told me that is low fiber intake and little sleep so, that is probably the cause to your symptoms too.
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Low blood sugar is a definite possibility given the time of the day you had this attack. The fact that it went away without you eating something says it is probably not blood sugar that is that low. Something else is going on.
I am a retired first responder with a fire department. If you have not told your parents what happened you need to do so now. A 13 year old person should not be having this type of an attack. You need to see a doctor.
If it is low blood sugar then the doctor needs to find out why. Low blood sugar is a very serious problem that needs to be diagnosed. Blacking out is a very serious problem that has different causes. Low blood sugar is only one cause. Do not wait until the next time you black out for the next time you black out you may not wake up as fast.
If you do black out again and there is no one home to help you. Call 911 as soon as you can get to a phone. Blacking out is serious and you do not need parental permission to call for help. The purpose of 911 is to help you when you need it and there is no one else who can help you.
Please talk to your parents and tell them what happened to your yesterday. This is serious enough that they should take you wither to one of the 24 hour clinics that are available or to a hospital emergency room. This is not something you want happening again.
If they have no other way of getting you to a doctor today you can even call 911.
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It could be diabetes, but if it was you'd collapse and not get up after the splitting the chin part-no energy at all.
I think it sounds like exhaustion-though none of us are doctors on here.
You can collapse with exhaustion, and its true nausea is one of the symptoms. You see, its so severe that you actually feel ok, but then it hits you like bricks.
Its worse than fatigue.
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Anyway, I'd suggest you rest up in bed-take a day out to just do NOTHING. Give your body a break and you'll soon be well again. Obviously if it happens again you need to speak to your doctor.
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I worked as a caregiver for a while with a gal who was diabetic and on meds. Thats exactly how she described feeling on a medi bus ride home when she collapsed on the bus. The Dr and pharmacy didn't catch the fact a new drug was cancelling out her diabetic drug and her blood sugar dropped too low.
I also experienced the same on 4 different occasions in my life,two unexplained when blood sugar dropped, after a really a painful shot, and bleeding probs after childbirth made my body experience extreme shock which made me see spots and see grey or the color go out of everything, the best thing you can do at that moment is sit down immediately with your head down between your legs while you still have a second or two of control over your legs yet. Knocking your head and chin like that brought on shock which compounded whatever originally caused it.
The best thing you could do is to tell your parents about it and asked to go be checked by a doctor to ensure that you don't have the onset of childhood diabetes. I know of a teen in church who got it at 14, 15, when there never were symptoms before and no one else in family had it.
Since you had not eaten yet that morning, it could be a one time oddity and won't happen again. But the teen i mentioned had such a severe shut down that she ended up in the hospital, was diagnosed and put on medicines and finally was okay to go home.
Don't wait for another incident to happen, you could black out at the top of a flight of stairs and fall the wrong way and badly injure yourself or die from the fall.
Not trying to scare you. Often there may be nothing wrong. Just rule out diabetes and any other factors so if it happens a couple times over your lifetime, you won't have to freak out, just sit quickly and let the blood go back to your head.
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It is possible your sugar level was low.
We are not doctors, I suggest you see one.
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