Almost Blacked Out While Urinating Posted: 02-07-05 00:17am
This has happened to me twice in the last
5 years and it's very specific. I'll go
to urinate and while standing there I get
dizzy, there's a buzzing in my ears, my
heart races and I feel like i'm going to
pass out. I hold onto the wall, my
vision narrows (or tunnels I guess) and it
persists for about 10 seconds or so.
Both times it got to the point where I
thought I would collapse, but was
surprised when it passed and I hadn't.
My background is that i'm a male, 35, good
health, 6'2", 200. I've participated in
heavy exercise, both aerobic and weight
preiodically during the past 5 years - for
2 - 6 months at a time each time, 2-4
times per week - and had no issues with
dizziness. I can get up from the couch
and run 2 miles without issue, for
instance. I do smoke. My blood
pressure is normal to below normal. I
remember as a teenager a Dr. Put my blood
pressure as higher than he read it on a
physical, because he said no one would
believe it was that low, but no other dr's
have said anything. I haven't taken a
physical since the army, though 15 years
ago.
Is this indicitive of anything. I would
think it's an oxygen thing from smoking
and then getting up to go to the john, but
it hasn't happened any other time, and in
both instances I had been up for 3 or more
minutes walking around before I went to
the rest room.