Blackout? Temporary loss of sight and hearing!

I had the exact same thing today i was in a subway on the way to oktoberfest so it was pretty full, i dont know weather it was clastraphobia or maybe i have diabetes, because my mom and grandma also have it. I also once fainted when i stood up to fast, my eye sight blacks out for a while sometimes too. I am also 15.

I almost had the same thing, i was also one my period and hadn't taken any pain killers yet which is what set me off. I was in my biology lesson, the classroom is always boiling so i think that must have been a factor. I was really tired but i didn't know why since i felt fine at the beginning of the lesson. i began to fell really hot and sick and i couldn't concentrate on anything and egan to hyperventilate. i just went with it since there was only 5 minutes left of the lesson anyway. Once i got outside any began to walk slower to try and catch my breath. i must have walked about 10 meters when my eyesight went. it suddenly had a blue hint to it and everything was blotchy and blurry. my friend was next to me giving me support as i walked, but when i looked at her face i could see her facial features but i couldn't i just wouldn't have known that it was her. i began to loose my balance so i tried to lean against a post, but when i put my hand out to touch it, it was much further away than i'd realized. that's when i decided to sit down against the side of one of the school building. my vision returned to normal about 30 seconds later but i still felt like i was going to through up. all the symptoms had almost gone away when they asked me to walk to first aid at which point they all came back slowly, my eyesight hadn't gone blue this time. once i'd taken my pain killers (just paracetamol and ibuprofen) and i went back to felling normal. although everyone though that i looked green and clammy. 

2 weeks before i'd had the same thing in the same lesson but i'd got out of the lesson that time to cool down before they got any worse. and it isn't the classroom because i'm in there twice a week not once a fortnight. and i didn't want to ask to come out of the lesson this time since the teacher may have though that i was putting it on may have though that i was putting it on.

I had one black out, I was in my car at a light waiting for it to turn green but I blacked out and the car rolled or I had my food on the gas and was in the middle of the road. My husband was with me I don't know how many times he called me I heard two time and on the second one I came out of the black out. He was pissed I was so far out, I didn't want to tell him I had a black out  since I don't have insurance ( anyone know how to see policies on obama care let me know) and I can't pay to be tested or have test done. It has not happened to me again. There was no symtoms no numbing no light headiness nothing to feel before this I think it was a few seconds it could of been longer but I am sure in the seconds under a minute.  I don't almost black out standing or getting up from a chair and after this black out there was nothing more to it.  what do you think it is or what happened to me.

Rhayden

 

I get a similar but not identical "episode" every now and again (totally random). I'm female, and now 22, but I've had these since the age of 15/16. I get the "black vision", loss of hearing and loss of all body sensation, but no nausea, no after effects and no sweating. As it's wearing off my vision comes back first, then hearing and finally sensation, limb by limb, and it's accompanied by a tingling all over feeling. It lasts 1-3 mins and I'm completely fine afterwards. Over the years, my body's learnt to react quickly and I reach out for something to hold onto or I end up on the floor (very embarrassing if I'm with a group of people - this has happened a few times in the first couple of years).

I don't drive yet but I'm worried for when I start. I've been the doctor who took my blood pressure - perfectly normal - and they've now referred me to a "balance clinic" - my appointment is on 04/11/13. I'm not convinced they'll find anything there, but it's the only thing they've suggested for now. We'll see what happens

I've had similar episodes. I am fifteen, and I have had 3 fainting spells. My first one was two years ago. I was at school and I had hit my knee, and then I felt really nauseous. A few minutes later, I sat down, but I saw black spots in my vision and I could barely hear anything. My hearing was muffled, but the strangest thing was it only lasted 5 minutes. This happened again a few months ago, but I could not find a cause for my fainting. Again yesterday, I had a fainting spell in school. I had jammed my finger in a file cabinet, felt nauseous, and my hearing and vision went out. By now I knew what was happening, so I started walking down to the nurse's office. However, on my way down the stairs, my body felt so heavy and I could barely move my legs. I sat down when I couldn't move anymore, but I was fully recovered 10 minutes later. I saw the doctor, but he just recommended me to a neurologist. I have done some research, but I can't find a logical cause for my fainting spells.

At the balance clinic I had my eye movements tested to see if my sight was affecting my balance. I'm skeptical about this and the tests made me feel ill, so not impressed. I'm now waiting for the results. I'm also waiting for an appointment to have my brain scanned.
The doctor I originally saw though reckons it's either a form of migraine (most likely), a form of epilepsy or a heart condition (least likely). I have been told I can't eat chocolate, dairy, citrus or Chinese food or drink wine or anything with caffeine in it for 6 months because they make migraines worse. I don't know if the rest of you want to try this?
I was also told I may never be able to drive (I haven't got my license yet) in case I cause an accident. So understandably, I want to solve this. I strongly suggest the rest of you don't drive either. If you cause an accident and kill someone, you may go to jail because you were aware of your condition but drove anyway.

okay today i started feeling a little sick and then i blacked out but i think it was white intend, and i like couldnt see and i could barely hear, and then i stared sweating like crazy.. this happened to me before and i want it to stop because its scary and embarrassing

Hi. I had also a blackout about six years ago. It was just that, it didn't come with any other synthom or ache. It didn't happen ever again, but i have had other weird "irregularities" dad did happen again and again, and more frequently. This included a short kind of stabbing aches in my chest, that generally appeard over the left pectoral and sometimes spreaded over all of my thorax but only lasted a few seconds and generally didn't come with any other pain or weird situation. I also felt a lot a sudden sense of faintness, and my heart really speeded up, specially when i decided to stand up a little quickly from a chair or from my bed. This increased in frequency, and it could happend almost once a week by the moment i turned 23 years old. Offcorse i found all of this very weird and i went to the doctor so many times, but they didn't find any explanation or cause of worry. They always found that my pulse, my blood tests and the results of every other "standard" test they made seemed preety normal. I even went to a cardiologist when i was 14. He had me taking an echocardiogram, which showed no serious irregularity. He only found something called "incomplete blockade of the right branch", wich is a not so common but also not so weird irregularity in the performance of the heart, wich was "structurally normal" (This means that all the heart tissue, the heart valves, and every other "structure" of the heart seemd normal). I went to the doctor so many times not only because of this persistent situations, but because my father died inexplicably when he was 30 years old, and the best guess of the doctors was some problem with the heart, but they never figured out which. So my mother and i were always pretty nervous that his affliction - whatever it was - passed to me, that it was a genetic problem. Well, when i was 23 i had another of this faintness episodes when i was in my bathroom, but this time - and for the first time - y completely lost conciousness, and i fell to the floor pretty hard. Fortunatelly i didn't broke any of my bones, but the ache on the right side of my body was pretty awful for some days. By when i recovered conciousness my heart was beating at a really high speed, and i felt nauceous and i started sweating, but five minutes later i was normal again. My mother was really worried this time, and she took me to another cardiologist. This time he ordered me a test called "Electrocardiography" and this time he finally found out what was happening. Turns out i had a very weird affliction called Brugada Syndrome, a potentially deathly heart desease that was risponsable for the most of the cases of sudden and inexplicable death in young men. It was an affliction that caused the cells of my heart to perform badly from time to time, because they couldn't assimilate sodium. The desease has its origin in a genetic disordered, wich i inherited from my father. Cardiologists often get Brugada Syndrome mixed up with "incomplete blockade of the right branch" because of the weirdness of the desease. That, and the fact that it can only be identified with an electrocardiogram and not with a simple echocardiogram, caused the first chardiologist to get wrong his diagnosis. The desease is perfectly treatable with a device similar to a pacemaker. This device, called "Implantable Cardiac Defibrillator" (ICD) has stopped all those weird episodes. Till now they have not happend again. It also will prevent my heart to stop suddenly -like it likely happened with my father's heart- and if for some reason it stops anyway de device is able to send electric shocks to my heart to restart it. I still don't know for sure if that single episode of blackout was caused by this desease, though it is highly likely. The desease is so weird (it is present in less than one person per 2000 people) that it is not likely that your blockouts are caused by this desease. But the probability always exist. My intention is not to worry you, but i feel that it is my dutty to warn people about taking care of themselves and to go to see the doctor if something is going wrong. Even if it seems a weird but "harmless" situation such as a "blackout" that never happened again. I always may be a sign that something much worse is to come. And if anyone that reads this post has felt all of this synthoms and has had one or more cases of sudden and inexplicable death in his family tree, please hurry to see the cardiologist and, first of all, ask him if he is familiar with the brugada syndrome. If he is, tell him your story -and that of your relatives with weird deaths - and ask for a electrocardiography - almost any other test will not be usefull. Sometimes even the electrocardiography won't show anything, so a "Holter" test - wich is no more than a "portable" device that makes you an electrocardiography that takes an entire day- wil be necessary. The people with the "worst luck" that have the desease will have the results of the holter pretty normal, because sometimes the characteristic irregularities of the desease in the heart beats won't be present in that day, so they wont appear in the results of the test. In case of doubt your chardiologist can always aks for a third test called an "Electrophysiology Test". And if it turns out that you have brugada, your entire family must go to the cardiologist and ask for the same tests, even if they show no signs of the desease. Finally, if your family has the desease, you must take into account that the desease is of genetic nature, so it is highly likely that if some of your relatives want to have a baby, that baby will have the desease.

Hi. I had also a blackout about six years ago. It was just that, it didn't come with any other synthom or ache. It didn't happen ever again, but i have had other weird "irregularities" dad did happen again and again, and more frequently. This included a short kind of stabbing aches in my chest, that generally appeard over the left pectoral and sometimes spreaded over all of my thorax but only lasted a few seconds and generally didn't come with any other pain or weird situation. I also felt a lot  a sudden sense of faintness, and my heart really speeded up, specially when i decided to stand up a little quickly from a chair or from my bed. This increased in frequency, and it could happend almost once a week by the moment i turned 23 years old. Offcorse i found all of this very weird and i went to the doctor so many times, but they didn't find any explanation or cause of worry. They always found that my pulse, my blood tests and the results of every other "standard" test they made seemed preety normal. I even went to a cardiologist when i was 14. He had me taking an echocardiogram, which showed no serious irregularity. He only found something called "incomplete blockade of the right branch", wich is a not so common but also not so weird irregularity in the performance of the heart, wich was "structurally normal" (This means that all the heart tissue, the heart valves, and every other "structure" of the heart seemd normal). I went to the doctor so many times not only because of this persistent situations, but because my father died inexplicably when he was 30 years old, and the best guess of the doctors was some problem with the heart, but they never figured out which. So my  mother and i were always pretty nervous that his affliction - whatever it was - passed to me, that it was a genetic problem. Well, when i was 23 i had another of this faintness episodes when i was in my bathroom, but this time - and for the first time - y completely lost conciousness, and i fell to the floor pretty hard. Fortunatelly i didn't broke any of my bones, but the ache on the right side of my body was pretty awful for some days. By when i recovered conciousness my heart was beating at a really high speed, and i felt nauceous and i started sweating, but five minutes later i was normal again. My mother was really worried this time, and she took me to another cardiologist. This time he ordered me a test called "Electrocardiography" and this time he finally found out what was happening. Turns out i had a very weird affliction called Brugada Syndrome, a potentially deathly heart desease that was risponsable for the most of the cases of sudden and inexplicable death in young men. It was an affliction that caused the cells of my heart to perform badly from time to time, because they couldn't assimilate sodium. The desease has its origin in a genetic disordered, wich i inherited from my father. Cardiologists often get Brugada Syndrome mixed up  with "incomplete blockade of the right branch" because of the weirdness of the desease. That, and the fact that it can only be identified with an electrocardiogram and not with a simple echocardiogram, caused the first chardiologist to get wrong his diagnosis. The desease is perfectly treatable with a device similar to a pacemaker. This device, called "Implantable Cardiac Defibrillator" (ICD) has stopped all those weird episodes. Till now they have not happend again. It also will prevent my heart to stop suddenly -like it likely happened with my father's heart- and if for some reason it stops anyway de device is able to send electric shocks to my heart to restart it. I still don't know for sure if that single episode of blackout was caused by this desease, though it is highly likely. The desease is so weird (it is present in less than one person per 2000 people) that it is not likely that your blockouts are caused by this desease. But the probability always exist. My intention is not to worry you, but i feel that it is my dutty to warn people about taking care of themselves and to go to see the doctor if something is going wrong. Even if it seems a weird but "harmless" situation such as a "blackout" that never happened again. I always may be a sign that something much worse is to come. And if anyone that reads this post has felt all of this synthoms and has had one or more cases of sudden and inexplicable death in his family tree, please hurry to see the cardiologist and, first of all, ask him if he is familiar with the brugada syndrome. If he is, tell him your story -and that of your relatives with weird deaths - and ask for a electrocardiography - almost any other test will not be usefull. Sometimes even the electrocardiography won't show anything, so a "Holter" test - wich is no more than a "portable" device that makes you an electrocardiography that takes an entire day- wil be necessary. The people with the "worst luck" that have the desease will have the results of the holter pretty normal, because sometimes the characteristic irregularities of the desease in the heart beats won't be present in that day, so they wont appear in the results of the test. In case of  doubt your chardiologist can always aks for a third test called an "Electrophysiology Test". And if it turns out that you have brugada, your entire family must go to the cardiologist and ask for the same tests, even if they show no signs of the desease. Finally, if your family has the desease, you must take into account that the desease is of genetic nature, so it is highly likely that if  some of your relatives want to have a baby, that baby will have the desease. 

Do you eat breakfast? It can also happen because you are hungry. That was something I discovered myself. I forgot to eat breakfast one day and when i was on my way to school I felt really hungry and out of nowhere i fainted.

In total I have fainted twice. The first time I fainted was the same reason, I was really hungry and fainted.
(By the way, I am not overweight, I have the right posture and weight for my age, which is 18.)

This happened to me yesterday and lsted an hour. My gparents think it could be severe migranes but it could also for me be a tumour

this has happened to me my recent blackout was yesterday it lasts for an hour. My head hurt iwas really dizzy and nfelt nauseated my sight went away and i couldnt here. Over the years its gotten worse i fears it may be a tumour.

This was happening to me a lot when I was a teenager have your doctor check you for something called postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome or POTS for short when I would change positions I would get tingly all over I would et a loud ringing in my ears then I would loose my vision for a little bit what it is when your body changes position it doesn't know what to do about the change in gravity on the body so your heart kinda freaks out and try's to get blood to major organs like your brain so the rush of blood to the head about of the extremities makes that happen an easy way to check yourself is sit for a little bit and take your pulse now stand up and take it again if there is a significant change in your pulse rate that's probably what you have also because your heart beats so fast when you change positions you become dehydrated quickly so that makes the symptoms even worse it took my doctors over a year of poking and prodding at me to figure this out

This happened to me for the first time a while back! I had to burst a pus bubble (yuck) and as soon as it happened black spots clouded my vision and my nan (I was with her at the time) said I kept shaking my head and I kept hearing a ringing sound in my ears and it was so scary so I had to keep eating sugar for about 30 minutes!

This has happened to me twice now! The first was when i was 17 and actually fainted/passed out...in class..assumed it was caused by certain things including not eating that day...had smoked on lunch break and i lived in california and the heat was horrible...Today i had almost the same thing happen i had donated plasma today with only having water in my body but felt good and left then went back 30 minutes later to get my cash and had to wait in a line about 3 mins later i got super overheated and then started blacking out then i couldnt really hear anything or walk then i held on to the desk until i was able to push myself long enough to get me vision back then made it to the bathroom i was completely drenched in sweat and my head hurt for a bit and i felt dizzy for a while after it felt horrible like i wasnt getting oxygen to my brain it was scary but i dont have enough money to see a doctor but under the circumstances i figured if i had eaten prior to donating among other things it may not have happened but if it does again i will have to go in and get some answers! I believe today had to do with having low blood sugar which could also mean im possibly diabetic