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From: brian
hello, im not sure i have this condition. it has been suggested by several doctors that i do but no tests have ever beem done. i am a 32 yr old male. i have not passed out very many times, maybe a total of 10 or 12 since my first one when i was about 16. i noticed i would become naussious and dizzy and start to sweat a few minutes after an injection and sometimes i would pas out. once i passesd out simply from watching someone recive a spinal tap. is that common? i also noticed that if i smoked marijuana i would often have the same sympyoms and pass out...needless to say i dont smoke it anymore. the reason i came to this website is because i recently had an additional symptom that was particularly scary to me. just 2 days ago i want to the emergency room for an eye problem. during the examitation i was given a eye pressure test. normaly this is the puff of air in your eye but this time they used a thing like a small hammer that was bounced off my eyeball. well that did it and i passed out...only this time when i awoke i was in a lot of pain and my girlfriend said all my muscles were tensed up almost like a siezure, but not. that had never happened before. is that common? i was also wondering about another problem i had when i was 18. for 2 days my heartbeat was completely eratic and it would even stop altogether for up to 10 secondes. i was given quinidine (sp) to regulate my heart and was taken off it. my heartrate remained regular from then on, but every so often i feel a little flutter in my chest and i cough...which is ecxactly how it was the first time. is/ could that be related? i also suffer from occasional panic attacks if that has anything to do with anything. i have tried to get information about this from doctors but none of them seem to think its anything to be concerned about. i am concerned. thanks in advance for any advice or information, brian