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Understanding Fainting
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Symptoms
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.
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