flop Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 Angela,I'm so glad to hear that you have a week since your faint without another one. I guess that some of us who do/did faint regularly forget how awful the first one feels. Hopefully that was a one-off episode and it won't happen again but just in case it does reccur, it never feels as bad as the firt time.You said in earlier posts that the florinef seemed to get rid of your warning symptoms so maybe it was being on florinef that was the problem not the fact that you were reducing the dose. I'd follow your doctors advice about coming off florinef and see how you feel when it is properly out of your system - maybe its not the right med for you? We all seem to react so differently to meds that you just have to use trial (and error) to find the right combination for you.Another friend of mine had taken florinef in the past and stopped it as it wasn't working - they tried it again later on and it helped. Unfortunately you have to accept that our POTS bodies are really odd and often not predictable.There is a lot of good advice about aborting fainting episodes and how to help yourself recover in previous posts on this thread so I won't bore you with my experiences. If you prepare yourself mentally for another faint it probably won't happen but if it does you'll know how to deal with it - fingers crossed you never need to!Keep standing (or sitting/lying down in a hurry),Flop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wufflebear Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 Yes, I know exactly what you describe. I started passing out when I was little and still manage it several times a year. It is awful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom4cem Posted April 12, 2007 Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 Hi Cardiactec,Glad to hear you are doing better. I've not experienced the fainting so I can only imagine. I'm sure frightening and the worry of if another will happen. I hope that this was a one time occurence not to rear its head ever again.Feel well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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