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First Occurrence

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From: Nicole

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I was out to dinner with my boyfriend on Friday night and had not been feeling quite right all day. Earlier that morning, I tried to eat breakfast and each bite nauseated me so I put the food down. We were standing outside the restaurant waiting for our table when my vision became blurry, I began to sweat, felt extremely nauseous, and told him I was going to faint. He told me to take deep breaths, talk myself out of it, that it was because I hadn't eaten all day and my bloodsugar was low. I rushed to a place inside where I felt would be safe to sit and passed out on his chest. I really wanted to lay on the floor of the restaurant, but I knew that would look ridiculous. I was out cold for about a minute, and when I came to I was drenched in sweat and my arms and hands were "locked up" from the elbow down. I couldn't speak or move for a short time. He wanted me to sit up straight, which I could not do, and drink some orange juice, which I did reluctantly. It was no more than 5 minutes and the paramedics were carrrying me out on the stretcher and I threw up the OJ. My bloodpressure was extremely low, although I typically have low BP normally. My bloodsugar levels were fine and so were all the rest of the tests they did on me once I got into the ER. It had been a couple of hours and no doctor ever came to see me, so I pulled all the monitors off, put my clothes on, carried the fluids bag that was connected to me and kindly asked the nurse to discharge me. The only physical side-effect that has stuck with me is blurriness in my left eye. It's as though my contact Rx is no longer strong enough in that one eye. The emotional side-effect is embarrassment to the point I have not really told anyone about what happened that night. I am extremely grateful for this website and for my dear friend who told me to look into VV as a possible explanation.


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