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I have twice. One time they were putting a heart monitor on me. Now I know they were just taping a sensor to my chest but there was a trainee there and they started talking about things like current running through it or something like that. I started picturing electricity rushing through my heart which I knew wasn't actually happening. I then started feeling weird and I remember asking them if the monitor was doing anything and then I woke up on the floor. The nurse insisted on calling an ambulance and I made the mistake of letting them take me to the hospital poke only for the doctor there to tell me that I just passed out which duh I already could have told them that. On top of that I had a several hundred dollar ambulance ride to pay for. Years later I was trying to make the move to using an insulin pump and I was feeling very light headed in the training class for it. I knew what was happening and this time I was able to lay my head down on the table. I then woke up to the sensation of coming out of a dark tunnel and hearing the nurse calling my name at the end of it. Again at this doctor they insisted on calling an ambulance despite me knowing I just fainted due to me being very squeamish to things I'm not used to happening to my body. This time I knew to refuse the ambulance service even though the paramedics acted like I had some horrible unknown life threatening condition that caused me to pass out and that I had to take a ride with them. No way I was doing that again when I knew there was no point in me going other than getting an unnecessary ambulance bill.
Yes and it was very surprising. I am not the least bit squeamish, and I've had many shots, blood draws, and I donate blood regularly, so needles do not bother me in the least. I had a bad case of poison oak and was getting a cortisone shot. As soon as I got the shot, before I could even pull up my pants, I felt like everything was receding, crazy thoughts ran through my head, and I felt myself falling backwards but I couldn't work my muscles. I fell backwards as the nurse was reaching out to me. She could see I was going to go down. I hit the back of my head on one of those metal trays on wheels that they have. I woke up on the table with BP cuffs on both arms. I guess it was a reaction to the cortisone.
I have, but I wasn't there as a patient. I faint when someone describes medical procedures in a medical setting. I'm completely fine watching them on tv shows, having them performed on me or someone near me, but the description triggers something in my brain that causes me to pass out. I warn doctors ahead of time now and take measures if I feel myself about to go.
I almost fainted twice, once when my DH had his halo placed; he broke his neck in '94 and he wanted me in the room - I only had a vague idea about what a halo was and when they brought out the cordless Black & Decker screwdriver (?) I wanted to faint again when the device was removed.
It is absolutely horrific to be there when something like a halo is placed on someone you love. Everything is in a blur; you are still reeling from hearing the words "your husband has broken his neck at C4-5-6" and then they are using a power tool to screw a halo into his skull; removing it was less traumatic, but no less shocking.
I almost fainted twice, once when my DH had his halo placed; he broke his neck in '94 and he wanted me in the room - I only had a vague idea about what a halo was and when they brought out the cordless Black & Decker screwdriver (?) I wanted to faint again when the device was removed.
It is absolutely horrific to be there when something like a halo is placed on someone you love. Everything is in a blur; you are still reeling from hearing the words "your husband has broken his neck at C4-5-6" and then they are using a power tool to screw a halo into his skull; removing it was less traumatic, but no less shocking.
Of all the experiences I've read from all these posts, I think an experience such as you describe would be the "winner". Watching a loved one have a halo fitted around his head with screws (especially after hearing of his broken neck) would make me faint too.
I fainted in a hospital. Went to see someone who was very sick, dying. I didn't know them well but went with a couple co-workers.
The hospital smelled really bad, like I'd never smelled before. It was awful. And that alone was getting to me.
Then I walk in and this guy has tubes all over and looks like death warmed over and it was shocking to me. I'm not sure why, but I guess I didn't expect him to look that bad or have so many tubes hooked up to him.
So I started to faint and had to excuse myself and leave the room. I felt terrible that I couldn't greet him with a smile and instead maybe made him feel worse.
I fainted after an endometrial biopsy. I felt like I couldn't breathe laying down, so I started to sit up, the room looked like it was all purple and green sparkles and that was it. My doctor said it was fairly common.
Yes, the same. Very painful, then my whole body got hot and I started to lose consciousness. Laying there with cold wet cloths applied to my face and neck, it took awhile to feel normal. I'd never had anything happen like that before nor would I like to repeat it.
I almost fainted twice, once when my DH had his halo placed; he broke his neck in '94 and he wanted me in the room - I only had a vague idea about what a halo was and when they brought out the cordless Black & Decker screwdriver (?) I wanted to faint again when the device was removed.
It is absolutely horrific to be there when something like a halo is placed on someone you love. Everything is in a blur; you are still reeling from hearing the words "your husband has broken his neck at C4-5-6" and then they are using a power tool to screw a halo into his skull; removing it was less traumatic, but no less shocking.
I would have become faint, too. But at the same time, try to be strong for my loved one, and comfort him. I'm sure he was scared, too!
How is your husband doing?
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