Fainting after showering

[Anonymous]

Anyone ever experience this or know someone who has? Not diabetic, normal blood pressure, no heart problems and no other diagnosed conditions to explain this. TIA!

[Anonymous]

Starving yourself again?

[Anonymous]

How hot is the shower?

[Anonymous]

No, normal diet and normal shower temp. Blood work showed the magnesium level was a little low, but that's it.

[Anonymous]

I've read that some people get dizzy after soaking in a hot bath and they stand to get out of the tub. Not sure if there was a name for that. But maybe you could take shorter, colder showers and see if that helps. Not sure but I'm thinking it has to do with the sudden temperature change.

[Anonymous]

I've heard of it but can't remember the details. Perhaps this would help: http://www.cccgroup.info/neurosyn.asp.

[Anonymous]

I fainted getting out of the shower two days before prom and had to go with a bruised jaw. I was lucky I lived. All of a sudden I felt really weird and took one step out of the tub before blacking out. I had the water on super hot and had been in the shower way too long. (I had listened to a whole cassette on my shower radio!)

I have fainted a few times since and all of the testing points to just a combo of low blood pressure and heat intolerance. They call it benign syncope and tested me on a tilt table that showed that the blood pressure receptors in my neck are slow to regulate my blood pressure when I change position or stand still for too long. (Sort if like when you get light headed from standing up too quickly.)

I just make sure not to stand in one place for too long or stay outside when it's very hot. Also, I have to drink lots of water because it helps keep blood pressure up.

Hope this helps!

[Anonymous]

^^pp here. I know in your post you said you have normal blood pressure. That still fits with this "vaso-vagel" issue I described because what matters is how your body maintains the blood pressure level.

Also, these are heinous but wearing therapeutic support hose is often prescribed, especially in the summer,because it keeps blood from pooling in your legs.

[Anonymous]

Do you shower first thing in the morning before eating?

[Anonymous]

I bet anything you are underweight.
What do you weigh?

[Anonymous]

I'm the pp who has fainted in the shower and I wasn't underweight and I had eaten just fine. Most actual fainting has nothing to with eating or being hungry. It's usually related to the heart, low blood pressure or occasionally people who faint at sight of blood.

[Anonymous]

A warm shower causes dilation of the peripheral blood vessels and may have caused drop in blood flow to your brain, temporarily. Some people are just more susceptible to fainting ( I know from my own experience and this has happened to me as well)

[Anonymous]

Op here. Thanks for the helpful responses, it's nice to have some direction on this. I could envision going to doctor after doctor and not getting any answers. And, no, weight is not the issue.

[Anonymous]

Vasovagal Syncope. I have it. GW does tilt table testing to confirm the diagnosis.

[Anonymous]

This happened to me when I was pregnant during my first trimester (I nearly fainted several times in the shower).

Could you be pregnant, OP?