A Different Kind Of Blackout

Not the electricity blackout.

Two nights ago, I fainted and experienced a blackout tat lasted ard 15 seconds.

Here's wat happened:-

I just had a midnight snack, Roti Prata, with A and was crossing the road when I hit the concrete on the pavement curb (I dun know how best to describe this). My little last toe on my right foot started bleeding and I hurried to cross the road then got a wet tissue to wipe my little toe. I bent down from a standing position (there was nowhere to sit along the pavement) to wipe my toe. Stood upright. Then decided to take another tissue to wrap my little toe up as it was still bleeding.

Just when I stood upright the 2nd time, I felt whoozy...my vision became unstable and I felt cold sweat creeping out of my skin. I was fainting!

Quickly I called out to A to hold me. Then I felt my eyelids close, my limbs go weak...a darkness took over while I was being lowered to the ground. Blackout.

15 seconds later (I was told tats roughly how long I took to wake up, if longer, an ambulance would probably take me away), I opened my eyes again.

(Damn, I alighted at the wrong mrt station. Little India instead of Dhorby Ghaut. Coz I was blogging while on my way to work.)

After I woke up, I realised tat I was sitting on the pavement, leaning against A, covered in cold sweat and still had the unbalanced feeling. Being weak, I sat there for a few minutes more before A walked me home.

Scary huh? At least for someone who doesn't experience fainting much.

My parents and friends told me to do a body checkup to find out the cause of the fainting spell. So I surfed the web for information and found tat there are soooo many medical checkup/health screening packages available! From less than $100 to $1000+.

So instead of booking a checkup randomly, I consulted a doc yesterday and was told this:-

My fainting incident was probably due to a lowered blood pressure at tat time. A sudden drop of blood pressure can happen when u suddenly felt stressed or pain and the body is in shock. For example, this happens when a person got hurt and bled or when a person received a shocking news.

The doc advised tat a checkup can be done to determine if a person is diabetic or anaemic which are more prone to fainting.

He also said tat I do not have a cause to worry. But if the fainting occurs more often, then its a cause for worry and he would then recommend tat I see a Neurologist to scan my brain.

Doc said tat for my case, I can do a checkup as a precaution but it wouldn't really help. And tat I shld be careful when bending down in future and most important of all...

DO MORE EXERCISE

to make my heart stronger...