Radium
Wed, Sep-27-06, 06:18
Hi:
I know the following my message looks like a troll but it
isn't. I am so dead serious about some agonizing circulatory
conditon that plagued my adolescence.
As a teenager I often experienced what I call the "The
Torturous Faint". I am NOT kidding!
Here are the following symptoms of a torturous faint:
1. Extreme nausea and excruciating abdominal pain;
possibly vomiting
2. Incapacitating aches of muscles around the body
3. A feeling that the environmental light is blindingly
bright; altered colored perception [for example yellow
objects may look green]
4. Shortness of breath
5. A feeling of fullness in the ears
6. Loud, painful palpitations
7. Profuse sweating
8. Collapse
9. Strong, rapid pulse
VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: The torturous faint does NOT involve any
loss or decrease in consciousness. No dizziness, no impairment
in balance. No bradycardia. Because consciousness, memory and
perception of pain is intact, I call it "The Torturous Faint".
The only "fainting" that occurs is the collapse caused by the
extreme pain. The reason I would collapse is because I needed
to. At times, just standing was TOO much of an exertion for
me. My whole body would be in SOOOO much pain that I needed to
lay down in order to releive the pain. I would remain fully
aware of self and surroundings. Thats right, no luxury of
unconsciousness. No escape. I had too relax completely in
order to releive the pain. My adolscent medical condition is
not a defined as a true "faint" because if it was, then I'd
feel dizzy and then enter a happy state of sub/unconsciousness
and probably not remember the faint.
Here are some -- but clearly not all -- of what used to the
triggers to my "Torturous Faint":
10. Excessive exertion
11. Emotional stress
12. Eating fatty foods
Thankfully, I rarely experience the "torturous faint"
these days.
Does anyone have any idea what ailed my teen years?
Thanks,
Radium
P.S. Once again, I am very serious in this post. I actually
did experience the symptoms described.
I posted this message twice because the first time, no
one answered.
I know the following my message looks like a troll but it
isn't. I am so dead serious about some agonizing circulatory
conditon that plagued my adolescence.
As a teenager I often experienced what I call the "The
Torturous Faint". I am NOT kidding!
Here are the following symptoms of a torturous faint:
1. Extreme nausea and excruciating abdominal pain;
possibly vomiting
2. Incapacitating aches of muscles around the body
3. A feeling that the environmental light is blindingly
bright; altered colored perception [for example yellow
objects may look green]
4. Shortness of breath
5. A feeling of fullness in the ears
6. Loud, painful palpitations
7. Profuse sweating
8. Collapse
9. Strong, rapid pulse
VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: The torturous faint does NOT involve any
loss or decrease in consciousness. No dizziness, no impairment
in balance. No bradycardia. Because consciousness, memory and
perception of pain is intact, I call it "The Torturous Faint".
The only "fainting" that occurs is the collapse caused by the
extreme pain. The reason I would collapse is because I needed
to. At times, just standing was TOO much of an exertion for
me. My whole body would be in SOOOO much pain that I needed to
lay down in order to releive the pain. I would remain fully
aware of self and surroundings. Thats right, no luxury of
unconsciousness. No escape. I had too relax completely in
order to releive the pain. My adolscent medical condition is
not a defined as a true "faint" because if it was, then I'd
feel dizzy and then enter a happy state of sub/unconsciousness
and probably not remember the faint.
Here are some -- but clearly not all -- of what used to the
triggers to my "Torturous Faint":
10. Excessive exertion
11. Emotional stress
12. Eating fatty foods
Thankfully, I rarely experience the "torturous faint"
these days.
Does anyone have any idea what ailed my teen years?
Thanks,
Radium
P.S. Once again, I am very serious in this post. I actually
did experience the symptoms described.
I posted this message twice because the first time, no
one answered.