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From: JLarson0823@comcast.net
Bill, I have the same problem!!!!! For most of my life I have been wrongly treated for low blood sugar, but everytime I had one of these episodes, I had to "go", too. Now I have made the deffinite connection, and know we are not crazy. It is well doccumented in the medical community that straining to have a BM can cause the vaso vagal response (as it is called). This happens to me even when I don't strain, and I have a loose one (I know, this is so gross. I am a registered nurse, so I am used to topics like this.) For a while I wondered if there was something in my bowels, like a tumor, that caused this as the stool passed. Now that I know someone else has this same experience, I can rule that out (thanks for being so candid). This also happens to me if going up and down the stairs, has happened in my sleep. I have never passed out though. Jean