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[quote=Anonymous]I’m a fainter and fainted a lot when I was a teen. Everyone wrote it off as low blood pressure. I do have very low blood pressure, but later I found out my fainting was a bit more complicated.

Mine is triggered by hormones and dehydration, and sometimes altitude. My hormones were really out of whack and continuous birth control helped reduce my fainting significantly, but did not eliminate it. My episodes became less frequent but more severe and after I was hospitalized after 3 of them, I was finally diagnosed with atrial fibrillation.

Mine is caused my an anatomical quirk that puts my vagal nerve way too close to my heart. So (and excuse my layman’s version of it) a vasovagal response ends up hotwiring my heart and throwing it out of rhythm.

It took doctors 15 years to get to the bottom of this but it was resolved with medication and a lot of work to identify and reduce my triggers. There’s probably no need to panic, but you should also be careful to dismiss this as a standalone fainting episode. Most people don’t just randomly faint.[/quote]

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