WTH happened?

[MuleDeerMike]

Sounds like vasovagal syncope (aka passing out). It can be brought on by a lot of things, including getting a shot. A drop in blood pressure like that is likely not directly caused by any vaccine, but rather your mental reaction to it. I hope everyone recovers okay.

Very likely this. Has happened to me every time I've gotten a shot since I was little and a nurse once told me it's syncope, and she also has the same issue. 100% a mental reaction that causes the drop in blood pressure. Probably going to happen to more and more people now with all of the anxiety surrounding the covid shots. I hate needles, apparently.

 

[MuleDeerMike]

Just for future reference to anyone here if they experience the light headeness from syncope coming on in the future, I've found lying down and putting your legs up on a chair helps a ton and also drinking OJ helps bring your blood sugar back up and will help you from passing out. I've been involved in some very graphic and bloody wounds helping injured people in my life as well as myself and have never gotten even a light woozy from them, as well as gutted and quartered dozens and dozens of big game animals and it only happens to me when I get shots or get my blood drawn by a needle. But not if I or someone else is bleeding profusely. I don't understand why, but it is what it is and I've learned its way more common than I initially thought. It's clearly not just from vaccines when it happens to people from getting blood draws as well.

 

[Yoder]

Whooping cough is no joke. I got it when I was 30. I actually thought I was going to die. I would go into coughing fits and my throat would close up. You start making this whooping noise when you start gasping for air. It was like having a plastic bag over your face. I actually started coughing up a little blood it was so bad. My doctor told me not to worry, he said if I passed out I would start breathing normally. That was real comforting. It took two months to recover from that. I'm not big on vaccinations but I would absolutely get that one.

 

[Dos Perros]

Just for future reference to anyone here if they experience the light headeness from syncope coming on in the future, I've found lying down and putting your legs up on a chair helps a ton and also drinking OJ helps bring your blood sugar back up and will help you from passing out. I've been involved in some very graphic and bloody wounds helping injured people in my life as well as myself and have never gotten even a light woozy from them, as well as gutted and quartered dozens and dozens of big game animals and it only happens to me when I get shots or get my blood drawn by a needle. But not if I or someone else is bleeding profusely. I don't understand why, but it is what it is and I've learned its way more common than I initially thought. It's clearly not just from vaccines when it happens to people from getting blood draws as well.

My technique is to tense my stomach muscles like a fighter pilot in a high g pull. That's what I do in the moment. I've fought off the tunnel vision using this technique a couple times, including during the job interview for the job I have now.

Prior to a known event, like a shot or public speaking event I try to avoid caffeine as that seems to make my anxiety worse. I also like to try to get pumped up, physically and mentally before hand, like just more active, blood flowing, etc.

 

[bozeman]

Sissies…….

J/K- glad y’all are ok.

 

[Trackerbacker]

I can take shots.

I've taken a handful of tetanus shots, school and the usual immunizations you go through growing up.

However..once at a getaway. We got a little..drunk..I woke up with a bat in my sheets. One of the guys on the trip was a cardiologist, recommended offhand I call my doc on Monday.

My primary says I should go in, he'll call ahead. Okay?

Head in, and they look over my scratches and mosquito bites, and general tomfoolery, deduce a couple look like bat bites.

They offer me two choices. 1-do nothing and if I show signs of rabies, I'll be too far gone more than likely. 2-get inoculation and boosters.

Sure, needles don't bug me much. But that shit is based on body weight. I was/am 5'10 200# to clarify. End of day I received 12 shots total, a damn pin cushion.

I passed out, straight into the nurses solid c cup. I woke up to my wife laughing with the nurse about how pathetic I looked motorboating the nurse.

And no, before you ask, it wasn't an intro into a hot nurse/wife porno...they are both outta my league

 

[PaHunter86]

I have the same problem when I get shots, blood drawn, or an IV. I get light headed just watching shows that show people shooting up drugs. BTW I also have a lot of tattoo's. That never bothered me. The thought of a needle going down into my flesh to hit a vein freaks me out to no end.

 

[KsRancher]

UPDATE! Got out of surgery today. They wanted to wait longer but he had a septal hematoma that the local ER missed. Got him all fixed up. Go back in a week to get the nose splints removed.

Asked the ENT/Surgeon about our elk hunt later this month. He said "absolutely can't miss that. I just got back from Wyoming elk hunting myself"

 

[jbach50]

I used to get a flu shot every year. not any
more. 2020 totally turned me off to that $hit.

Likewise.

 

[Rich M]

BIL got flu and someother vax. They were pushing at the time. They later found him wandering around a parking lot somewhere. He spent about a week in hospital getting back to normal.

Dangerous to just get stuff injected into you cause there is s sign at the store.

My old man always said if you want the flu, get the vax.

 

[swavescatter]

Crazy how every single person in history that has died drank water. That's why I stay away from the stuff. My father always said, "if you want to die, hydrate."

 

[grfox92]

BIL got flu and someother vax. They were pushing at the time. They later found him wandering around a parking lot somewhere. He spent about a week in hospital getting back to normal.

Dangerous to just get stuff injected into you cause there is s sign at the store.

My old man always said if you want the flu, get the vax.

I used to manage 150-200 at a time for a 10 year period (in a previous career).

I came to notice the people who always let everyone know that they just went and got their flu shot were always calling out sick....with the flu, a week or 2 later.

I have never had the flu shot in my entire life and have had the flu maybe 2 or 3 times since childhood. Could be a coincidence, but it happened so often that I made the connection.

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[Rich M]

Crazy how every single person in history that has died drank water. That's why I stay away from the stuff. My father always said, "if you want to die, hydrate.

There is probably a vax for that.

 

[Trackerbacker]

There is probably a vax for that.

i tend to go for solutions over vaccinations. What i found that works best, is the following solution:

 

[260284]

Pick your poison, boys. A good friend of mine was an anti-vaxxer. "COVID is BS and the vaccine is a joke." Obviously he never got the vaccine. He died of COVID last winter- 62, non-smoker, in good health before getting it. There are risks with getting vaccines (they're unlikely and most are small) and there are risks of getting what the vaccine is trying to prevent. Pick your poison...

I realize the audience receiving this post won't be very receptive to it. My friend is still dead though and my statement about risks being on both sides of the equation is 100% accurate. Thank goodness we live in America and can each still make the choice of how we want to deal with our personal health issues, rather than having them shoved down our throats by the government. Let's keep it that way...

I have friends and relatives that died from COVID. I also have a lot of friends and relatives that have had enlarged hearts, mini-strokes, and other complications, including my father dying 6 days after his COVID vaccine, he started feeling bad the next day. I have heard that the flu shot has changed, but I am done getting them.

 

[KsRancher]

Since this came back to the top. I will give an update. A little over 2 weeks after surgery all was going good. Then at 4:00am one morning my wife and I hear a BANG in the bathroom. It's on the same wall as our bedroom. I jump up and go check it out. There is my son stiff as a board at about a 45 degree angle with his lower back against the counter in front of the toilet. He was OUT cold, but this time he was rigid and shaking like he was shivering from being cold. His eyes were open bur he was looking right thru me. I grabbed him, stood him up and then laid him down on his back and then rolled him onto his side. He almost instantly came to and asked "what is going on?" He said the last thing he remembers was walking up to the toilet and starting to pee. When I found him he hadn't peed himself and had his underwear back up. So I am not sure how it all took place. But appeared to have been standing at the toilet and tipped backwards.

Since he was almost seizure like my wife and I took him to the ER. When we were about a block from the ER he says "I don't feel well at all". We pulled in and I got him out and we were walking up to the doors. He says "dad, the vision is getting blurry". I knew he was about to go out again. And he did, but I caught him and really never broke stride. Just carried him in and laid him down on the floor at the receptionist desk. He almost instantly came to.

Been to 2 different doctors and all we get is "it's normal, nothing to worry about. Just try and make sure he doesn't hurt himself when passing out"

 

[Rich M]

Ge ahold of an attorney. Dont play games w this.

 

[jbach50]

Uggh. Best wishes to you and family.

 

[ScreamingPotato]

Been to 2 different doctors and all we get is "it's normal, nothing to worry about. Just try and make sure he doesn't hurt himself when passing out"

It's not freaking normal. Sorry you're dealing with all this, hope he gets better and hope yall can find a doc that will do more than just pass it off as normal.

 

[ScreamingPotato]

Nurse close to 20 years ED, pediatric ICU background Paramedic for about 30.
I‘d have to lean towards, Vaso response, anxiety, fear as mentioned. See it all the time.
Adults covered in tattoos are the worst. Have to listen to them piss and moan about IV access, shots, blood draws.
Still have not figured out how a “sleeve” that takes hours hurts less than any of the above. Sure the medication may hurt, you have good veins, I’m in in a second.
Girl I work with, her husband is so afraid of needles she had to go with him, hold his hand, put a wet rag on his head. He passed out once and EMS had to take him to the ED.
Oh, I have zero tattoos

Internal plumbing is way different than skin, nature didn't intend for internal plumbing to have holes poked in it lol... I have a full sleeve on one side and the nurses always laugh and point when I say I hate needles, it's good for a joke. In reality it's not that bad, but I had a nurse blow a vein once a while back and I like to get them to think a little before stabbing me... which in reality probably increases the chances of messing up if they get nervous but whatevs.