Passing out when hurt...please read

[burtonbabe]

A little while age, I slammed my thumb in my truck door pretty badly.It hurt super bad.Anyways...after I slammed it,I went into my house to run it under cold water and as I was doing that I starting feeling really faint and my face went white and I could see this tiny blue dots on everything and I was really disoriented,I kept myself from passing out by laying on the cold floor but I could still see the dots for a while and I still felt kinda like all my blood was gone,sounds weird but thats how i felt....


Anyone know what happened there?

[Pootsi]

Sounds like you went into a mild shock from the pain.
I think it was just the bodys defense mechanism shutting you down because of the intense pain. Must of been very painful!
I use to get really bad cramps, around that time of the month, that I would get the same exact experience, seeing the dots and getting all weak, then passing out. Feeling cold, Im sure my lips probably got purple and I was as white as a ghost and ringing in the ears. Awful feeling!

[Canadian™]

yes this sounds like a panic attack from the shock. When you go into shock your body expells more oxygen than it should, thats why they tell you to breath into a paper bag, so that you breath back in the expelled oxygen that you shouldnt be expelling .

I had my first one the other day , i thought i was going to die. went faint and flush hot and cold on forehead then my body went completely shutdown and i felt buzzing all over my body and ringing in ears, my hands went into this strange cramped formation and i couldnt control them. Very scary. Alprazolam ( valium ) really helps if you have these.

Just dont take them if you dont need them because alprazolam is addictive. ( its hard to gauge because they dont work instantly and once you have a panic attack its to late to pop a pill and magically make it go away, you just have to try to calm yourself down )