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Re: Vaso vagel syndrome

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It is scary. The episode you described seems pretty typical. I have said this somewhere else in the forum but I'll mention it again , a nurse told me once to prop my legs up (horizontally, not way up) on a stool or chair when I was tryiing to have a b.m. It's a little awkward but it did help. When I fainted the last time my husband said it looked like my face caved in. I have had them where I have been rigid like seizure but then with others where it's more like a regular faint. I have not had one in a few months so I hope that your husband's episodes go away for a while too.

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