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I have been experiencing this my whole life. It's usually whenever I get up in the morning, I stand and I stretch, a few seconds later and I feel really dizzy and everything goes much darker than I usually see. I feel really shakey and my head is pounding afterwards, it takes a few minutes for this to subside. A couple of times, I have "fainted" but not fully blacked out, I just loose my balance and fall to the floor on my knees and everything is dark and there is a ringing on my ears. I sounds a lot worse than it is. This happens when I am sitting too. I remember once I was standing next to my friends and my PE teacher was talking about our lesson and I stretched. Bad move. And I fell and stayed there for a few minutes, it freaked my classmates and teacher out coz they thought something was seriously wrong with me. It's annoying but nothing to worry about really :)
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The same stuff happens to me I should get it checked to
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Shake your head and shake your body really hard and fast and it brings back the circulation to your brain I get this all the time it mostly comes from smoking my head be making weird noisy like someone is releasing pressure of a empty condiment bottle because I smoke like 2 packs a day
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Im 13 years old and this happens to me. For a while now, I stretch back and I feel very very light headed. So far, 3 times I have passed out. The first time, I was doing homework. I stretched back and then woke up in my seat wondering who I even was. It took me 5 seconds to realize that I am a 13 year old boy who has to do homework. The other 2 times, I just stretched back and woke up and knew who I was. But a diffrent time, while I was in science class, my teacher was talking and I stretched back and I could not remember anything. I could have passed out but I dont remember. But as I was remembering what was going on, something in the room that was making a noise that does not make a loud noise became very loud. So loud, I felt the need that I should point it out to the teacher and ask what was going on. But I did not because since nobody else had a strange look on their face and the teacher was talking over the sound, I said nothing. But that stuff is rare to me. What is common is that when I stretch back, which is often, I get a very tingly feeling. I have never taken any drugs but I feel that what i am feeling would be similiar. It feels very good and I do not want it to stop until I realize that what is going on is not good. The reason why I am now worried and writing on a site is because I just passed out about 20 minutes ago and now im concerned that I might do it in school and make a fool of myself by stretching, walking around the room, and going back to my seat not even knowing what I had just done.

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well this is my first passing out i was on my phone wasn't being active sitting on a couch, i stopped i got up stretch for like the longest time then when i stopped i started losing my balance and fell ,it was a pass out but my eyes were like wide open i couldn't move my body for like 30 secs. Is it weird that i would want to do that again ?
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during the last few years I've got up stretched and passed out. That happens two times. Then other times I've streachef and felt dizzy

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today I got up and I streched an then felt a little wierd like I was shaking but I wasn't and then next thing you no my teacher was say are u okay go see the nurse and then I found out I fainted that was the worst experience of my life

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What was the results
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;i am just happy to know...that I am not alone...also glad that many of the posts accurately described this conditin for which I found laking of words for me to describe it myself. Thanks all.
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I came here simply cause I had this happen (I'm only thirteen and this happened in class)
I stretched so hard and let's just say, I didn't feel anything for two whole minutes... I was paralyzed, (not exactly, I just didn't feel like moving) and I didn't think, I didn't care, and for those two minutes I had the most bizarre feeling ever, my vision was warping around, I felt like sleeping while my friend just stared at me, I don't remember if he attempted to snap me out of this "trance" I had. It was a scary, but good feeling. And afterwards I still felt like I was in a dream, I felt like the world wasn't real, and I had two things in my brain: "Is life real anymore?" "Will I ever feel the same way about life again?" And my friend came up to me and pulled my ear (which worked almost instantly).

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Yeah I've felt the same thing as pretty much everyone here. I often will stand up and stretch, and then fall down. I wouldn't say it's passing out because I don't stay down long, and I might not even call it falling because its a bit more controlled, but It's kind of like the strength just leaves my muscles and I end up on the floor.
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hi, fellow sufferers. i also suffer from blacking out when i stretch. The first time it happened was when i was 14, i put my shoes on and stood up, then stretched, next thing i was waking up on the floor and my dad rushing in. I used to get up at 3 am every morning to do the most paper rounds ever by anyone so i just put it down to exhaustion and moved. Then when i was 16 it happened after i started work, i got out the car after sitting for a while, stretched and found myself waking up with a work colleague worrying. I felt fine but work told me to go doctors, i went doctors and they found nothing wrong. I am 32 now and i still get them every now and then but i learn to control it and love the feeling. always after sitting for long periods, tired, or hungover, i never black out anymore because i feel it coming and stay conscious of my surroundings, so i just sit back and feel my body buzzing and my hearing being wierd. I know i have always had a slow heart rate all my life, and after going round google reading other peoples stories about hyper tension ect i have come to the best conclusion. which is, Think of your muscles has sponges, when you relax your blood pools together in the sponges, so when you get up and stretch your basically wringing all your sponges out and putting all your blood back into circulation, that of course causes a rush of blood to the brain with little oxygen causing the knock out effect. Its been 18 years and i have never had any problems with it, i just enjoy the effects of it now, its nothing to worry about. (only except its nothing to worry about if you have done your research and agree you have the same as what i have).

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Same thing happen to me pretty often but today, I was walking and stretching, can't walk straight and fell flat on the floor :(
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This is not what's happeningPAGE
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Pretty much the same experience, I've had this happen all my life never overtly hurt me and happens even if I'm lying in down. I'm 56 now and it just happened again so I thought I'd look it up. Unfortunately I've never asked a doctor. I did have to get a pacemaker a few years ago because my lower node wasn't working properly and my heart was stopping. I had faint a couple of times because of this, it kind of feels the same, don't know if it's connected.I will have to remember to ask about that.
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