[sleepingbeauty]

i guess this is what you call 'light-headedness' but it feels like your brain is melting and has turned into carbonated water. all fizzy. i get it when a panic is coming on, when i stand up too fast, when i was doing drugs in highschool this was the most common side effect. you can feel the bubbles behind your eyeballs. same feeling right before fainting, and i also felt it majorly when i was being put under for surgery. it comes in a fast rush. to me it feels like what happens before death. what is this? homeskooled? dreamer? rula? anyone?

 

[Guest]

God that sounds terrible.
I get light headed,I guess without trying to be funny,it feels like I have only air in my head.
I get cold rushes up the back of my neck and I think that feels like death is about to occur.

Geeez we sound like a strange lot.

I wonder if your bubbles could be due to a drop in blood pressure?or low blood/oxygen flow to the brain,that's what I put my light headed feeling down to.

 

[[rula]]

hi sleepingbeauty,

only time i ever felt bubbles in my head were when i was experimenting with ketamine which is an anesthetic that causes out-of-body, near death feelings that you're describing. I think Shelly is right, it's things like low oxygen, low blood flow, low blood sugar, that trigger a flood of glutamate, over-activating NMDA receptors. soooo, my google search says:

"Conditions which trigger a glutamate flood may also trigger a flood of ketamine-like brain chemicals which bind to NMDA receptors to protect cells, leading to an altered state of consciousness like that produced by ketamine."

but, that's only my semi-educated guess, maybe HS knows best.

-rula

 

[Homeskooled]

Dear Sleeping Beauty,
Shelly and Rula had pretty good answers there. I dont know whether low blood pressure or low blood sugar will cause excess glutamate - I would have to look that up. But I do know that you are a borderline diabetic, and that the blood sugar and the blood pressure hormone, cortisol, are definitely tied together. If you are getting light-headed upon rising from normal seated positions, you should tell your doctor about it ASAP. Head rushes are a fairly normal occurence, you know, you get up too quickly, things look white or black for a second, your head feels like its going to pop. Its all due to changes in blood pressure. But orthostatic hypotension on a regular basis has causes which your doctor should try to identify for you. I'm not sure about the bubbles behind the eye feeling, unless its just a subjective interpretation of the hypotension, or low blood pressure. But watch your sugar, make sure you dont feel faint because it is low. I dont know if you are hypoglycemic, but if you are, eating small meals 7-8 times a day usually helps your body to produce the correct amount of insulin when you eat, as well as.......drumroll......exercise! So call your doctor about this, because your making me a little worried, and in the mean time, watch your diet! Oh, and congratulations Sleepy - I'm hoping that this is a start for great things with you and Gav. You guys are in my prayers!

Peace
Homeskooled :wink:

 

[Guest]

i also felt it majorly when i was being put under for surgery

(disclaimer: definitely listen to Homeskooled and get it checked by a doctor, but here is a little "alternate" view just for you to chew on)

You're about to get married, my dear. What does that and going into surgery have in common? Major surrender. Trust. Risk. And a giddy kind of helplessness.

It MIGHT be anxiety, based pure and simple in terror of loss of control.

DO get it checked. But just wanted to offer another perspective.

Love ya,
Janine

 

[Homeskooled]

Sleepy and Janine,
Yeah, thats also a possiblity. Although if it happens only upon rising, that would be an odd anxiety state. Guess we could call that one orthostatic pscho-tenseness...haha.....Hmmm....somehow I bet nobody is laughing with me on that one. Doesnt anybody have a doctor's sense of humor on here? Okay, anyways, I'll definitely side with Baker and say that if it isnt positional, it could be marriage jitters. There, I did it, I agreed with Janine....peace in the Middle East really IS possible.

Peace
Homeskooled

 

[sleepingbeauty]

blood sugar is the obvious answer. i have fainted before when my blood sugar was too low that was when i was anorexic and only eating once a day. in the past year though my blood sugar has leveled out. its still not great but its getting better. my general routine has improved as well. i eat 3 to 4 small meals a day (sometimes when i get real busy i tend to cheat and skip meals) i get up at the same time each morning around 8am which is a HUGE leap for me im a usual 'around noonish' waker. im finding that i have no trouble waking up and feeling fresh for the day. my depression is virtually gone. the only thing that is really worrisome for me is my obsessive compulsiveness is getting bad. im gonna make a new post about that. thanks for the replies it was just something that i was curious about so i thought id pick some brains.