• Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 days ago

        That fucking trash. I’ve got vasovagal syncope.

        A sudden drop in heart rate and blood pressure leading to fainting, often in reaction to a stressful trigger.

        Common triggers include strain, stress, long periods of standing, heat exposure, or the sight of blood.

        Symptoms include paleness, nausea, sweating, a rapid heartbeat, and fainting.

        It’s inconsistent, though. For example, never had issues with the numbing shots at the dentist. One day they start giving the shots to numb me up, and next thing I remember they’ve got me sitting up over a trash can trying to clear the vomit I was aspirating on. Scared the shit out of those dentists.

        Once while in middle school I lightly nicked a finger with some scissors - barely even bled. All of a sudden I feel nauseous and ask to go to the bathroom. I manage to get out into the hallway before collapsing to the floor, hitting my head at least twice on the way down and traumatizing my classmates who thought I just dropped dead.

        Intelligent design my big gay ass. Damn vagus nerve is a dodgy self-destruct mechanism.

        • Obinice@lemmy.world
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          3 days ago

          You may be a fainting goat. Have you checked for hooves? That’s a good sign you may be a fainting goat

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          3 days ago

          Common triggers include strain, stress, long periods of standing, heat exposure, or the sight of blood.

          Also, the use of caffeine and sometimes other stimulants, usually after they begin to wear off, even (edit: and sometimes especially, due to lack of acquired tolerance) with very infrequent use. Apparently that’s not well known, at least not by most of my fucking doctors.

    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
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      I mean don’t they also say it was “god’s plan” when a 6 year old dies of cancer? There is no point in trying to argue with zealots.