Do you ever get a head rush? I sometimes do when I stand up, I think I may almost faint!

It just happened to me now and I didn't even stand up though, I was just sitting here and all of the sudden my face felt all tingly and I got all wobbly and my head felt fuzzy and this weird throbbing sensation and everything got blurry for a minute...It's such a strong sensation...I wonder what causes it?

Last week when I was fighting the flu, and barely eating, when I went to stand up I like to fall down. Was very disoriented.

Yes it happens to me sometimes when I stand up and like you said its a weird throbbing sensation in my ears mostly and it sounds like everything is going whoosh whoosh. It passes in like a minute but I have never passed out from it. I don't know what causes it but its not a pleasant feeling.

I have that feeling whenever I try to get up too fast. Not really sure what causes it, but for me it's kind of a dizzying feeling, like I should get my balance before I fall over.

I just read a lot about it, it's a sudden drop in blood pressure and can be caused by a bunch of different things...Probably in my case dehydration because I haven't been drinking enough.

I really don't like it! It's almost like getting the wind knocked out of you!

It's usually caused by the disruption in the flow of blood to your head (and therefore to your brain.)

Is that what that's called?

I really don't like when that happens. Especially when I am out in public because I really fear passing out in public.

RedBedroom wrote:

I really don't like when that happens. Especially when I am out in public because I really fear passing out in public.

I don't know if it's ever happened to me in public! But when I was assisting my first oral surgery, it was a tissue graft and I passed out...so embarrassing.

It happens often to me in public because it is so stuffy in stores and stuff. Were you an oral surgery assistant? I was a dental assistant when I was in college.

RedBedroom wrote:

I really don't like when that happens. Especially when I am out in public because I really fear passing out in public.

Dibs on Red's watch!

alan smithee wrote:

RedBedroom wrote:

I really don't like when that happens. Especially when I am out in public because I really fear passing out in public.

Dibs on Red's watch!

LOL!

RedBedroom wrote:

It happens often to me in public because it is so stuffy in stores and stuff. Were you an oral surgery assistant? I was a dental assistant when I was in college.

I was a dental assistant but I did an externship at an oral surgery office.

thepossiblepolice wrote:

RedBedroom wrote:

It happens often to me in public because it is so stuffy in stores and stuff. Were you an oral surgery assistant? I was a dental assistant when I was in college.

I was a dental assistant but I did an externship at an oral surgery office.

Oh, I see. I was a pediatric dental assistant, so there was never oral surgery, that was referred out. Except for baby teeth. One time the dentist did a simple wisdom extraction, and that wasn't bad, and she took out two of my bicuspids before I got my braces.