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Date: 5/2/00
Time: 1:17:38 PM
Remote Name: 206.47.244.92

VASO-VAGAL HIT ME LIKE A BOMB

From: ruready0@aol.com

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I HAD 2 ATTACKS EXACTLY 40 DAYS APART BOTH TIMES WAS SENT TO HOSPITAL BY AMBULANCE. 11ST ATTACK WAS AT WORK HAD COLD SWEATS SEVERE STOMACH PAINS AND COULD HARDLY WALK HAD TO DO A B.M. AND WAS HAPPY TO BEABLE TO WALK TO BATHEROOM BUT HAD TO STOP A FEW TIMES FROM NOT BEING ABLE TO WALK. AFTER MY DB.M. I FELT FAINT AND WANTED TO VOMIT BUT HAD THE DRY HEAVES. THE PARAMEDICS WERE CALLED AND TOOK ME TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE PAIN MED WAS ADMINISTERED. ABOUT 6 HRS LATER WITH NO CONCLUSION THEY SENT ME HOME SAYING IT WAS A VIRUS. 2ND ATTACH I WAS AWAKEN FROM A DEAD SLEEP WITH TERRIBLE PAINS IN MY LEGS AND ARMS, ALSO HAD THE FEELING I NEED TO DO A B.M., JUST AS I SAT DOWN I GOT THE COLD SWEATS AND BEGAN TO SHAKE, A FEELING OF UPHORIA CAME ABOUT ME AND THE NEXT THING I REMEMBER I WAS GETTING UP OFF THE BATHROOM FLOOR BLEEDING FROM MY NOSE, HEAD AND FACE. THE AMBULANCE WAS CALLED AND WHEN I ARRIVED AT THE HOSPITAL INTENSIVE TESTS WERE DONE AND WAS ADMITTED TO THE HOSPITAL FOR FUTHER TESTING. ALL IN ALL IT WAS CONTRIBUTED TO VASO VAGAL. I REALLY DONT KNOW IF THIS WILL HAPPEN AGAIN BUT SURE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS.


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