Have you ever blacked out?

have 3-5 times due to heavy drinking. did not pass out but rather lost memory.


went unconscious multiple times as a result of being hit by a car. it was like my memory was just blank in those spots. i was also convinced until my head cleared that my memory was correct. but i was missing pieces of the event. it was like i wasn't even there, or it didnt happen.

This is how my husband was with all his medications he was on for Tourettes. He'd stand up, walk about 3 ft and just pass out

Exactly! That is what is wrong with me too, but it effects the way I live. I am not allowed to drive or try to work. I am a "liability" apparently. It makes sense.. I can't be driving and passing out. That is dangerous. I can't be working in a kitchen (my profession is baking and pastry) and hurting myself or others. I applied for SSDI and they are finally contacting me, saying that I have a legitimate illness. I thought I had to live with it forever, honestly.

I had scans done, I've been to every doctor and had SO many tests done. MRI, MRA, CAT Scans, Heart Monitor, EEG, EKG, blood work, x-rays of my whole body, ect ect ect and they said my Vasovagel nerve is just really sensitive and the artery is in the wrong place which presses up against things in my body and makes me pass out at random times, usually from stress, heat, standing too long, or no reason at all. It just happens. They told me that it could possibly be from birth and it just appeared now, but it would have eventually. (I almost died when I was born because my Mother was.. on a lot of stuff.) They can't do a damn thing about it or it could severely damage other things in my body or make me paralyzed. Surgery for this type of thing is really out of the question. Even though Medicine has gone so far, it hasn't gone far enough for this one.

It is interesting to hear someone else having this too. It isn't very common. I've talked to new doctors and therapists in the new town/state that I live in, and they don't even know what a Vagus nerve is. It is really incredible to me. It really is a weird abnormality.

I'm really glad that you can live normally with it. It gives me hope.

Yep, a couple of times. One was from blood-loss since I kept vomiting blood about two years ago, and recently I did from severe dehydration. It's a very scary experience, but I don't remember much since I woke up in a bright ER room.

Yes. My very first time ever "blacking out" or ever even being hit was when I was 13 and I actually had TWO incidents that same year where I blacked out again and it was both in the SAME place! Weird. I swear I was cursed that year.

The first time, I was in school then and sitting on the bleachers with friends when this guy, who'd harrassed me really badly all year long hit me. I had had enough of him so when he kept harrassing me I threatened to hit him if he done it again. He kept on. I slapped him. I sat back down and next thing, I woke up in the bathroom floor with our gym coach. He beat the daylights out of me. While he was punching me in the face and head, I didn't black out, but there was NOTHING I could do so I remember being slumped over into my friend's lap and covering my head and face. When he started punching me in the stomach is when I believe I blacked out. I finally came to in the bathroom after our coach asking me "do you remember your name?" At first I didn't know where I was or my address, but knew my name. It only lasted for a short while and I was back to normal. Well, back to knowing my information. I wasn't "normal" again for quite a couple of years after that. I dealt with shit all through my middle and high school years after he did that. Other guys would threaten to "pull a "guy's name who beat me up" on me.

The SAME year, in the SAME gym, I blacked out again! We had to play this dumb game where half of the students line up at one end of the gym and the other half line up at the other end of the gym. The coach blows the whistle and you RUN. As fast as you can to the other side. What kind of idiot would even come up with that game? Clearly is you've got a bunch of kids running directly to each other, "as fast as they can" bad things can happen. This HUGE dude slammed right slap into me as I was running. I didn't even know what happened! I was out of it on the gym floor--very humiliating--and came to with the SAME gym coach asking me the same questions "do you know your name?" LOL. That was one nasty year for me in school.

As for blacking out due to anger or drunkeness, I don't do that. It's never happened. I've gotten so angry that I can't see straight or that I might get overly agressive (not like hitting people, but agressive) but never black out from it. I don't quite know why people call it blacking out when they get so angry they don't know what they're doing. I've never experienced that. I've PASSED OUT from being too drunk and going into a deep, long sleep, but not actually passing out like you do when you're beaten up or injured.

wow that sucks lol. I hate Arizona weather.

Oh no, I hope God watches over you and that you stay safe. Yea! lol. I had the black swirl too. Thats interesting about blacking out because of water temperature, Its not that odd though because I feel dizzy when I shower.

I passed out because of low sugar in the morning ! I never eat breakfast on time. My dumbass thought the doctor meant regular sugar LOL and I was like waat but i eat a lot of it lol.

I'm right there with ya... I do not have VSR but I have sickle cell anemia which causes me to have a constant virdego type feeling... not fun

wow I never knew that existed. ): Is there any way to fix your issue? I hope you get better and that you hurt yourself less.

Ohh! I get you, I experience that rarely. I stand up and my eye sight goes black for a second because I have sleeping disorders. Thats weird that they did not hear you talk lol. Maybe you were talking in your head because when I blacked out I was screaming in my head that I needed to throw up.

Awww:/ im sorry sweety.

Same here but I loved it! lol. I always wondered how it would feel like, because no one can say 'I almost passed out!' when they have never experienced actually passing out and that gets on my nerves lol. But it is scary because if you do not wake up you can die >:l