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Fainting

The Basics | Symptoms | Detection & Treatment | Prevention

What Are the Symptoms?

Depending on the cause of your fainting spell, you may have some or all of these symptoms before or during the episode:

  • Dizziness
  • Weakness
  • Sweating
  • Blurred vision, seeing spots
  • Headache
  • Sensation that the room is moving
  • Ringing in the ears (see tinnitus)
  • Nausea, vomiting
  • Paleness
  • Tingling or numbness of fingertips and around lips
  • Bluish cast to the skin
  • Shortness of breath
  • Incontinence (involuntary urination, see urinary incontinence; or defecation)

Call Your Doctor If:

You have an unexplained fainting episode. Especially if the episode occurs during exercise, are associated with heart palpitations (feeling the heart beat irregularly) or if they occur in people with a family history of recurrent fainting or sudden death.
Medically reviewed by Tracy Shuman, MD, July 2005.

SOURCES: Heart Rhythm Society. American Academy of Family Physicians. The Merck Manual.

The Basics | Symptoms | Detection & Treatment | Prevention
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