i collapsed while working out!!!

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yesterday i was taking part in the multi stage fitness test (bleep test) and when i stopped i suddenly felt really dizzy and i wanted to close my eyes because the lights were hurting them. i told my friend how i felt because she has almost completed part of her first aid course so she laid me on the ground because i thought i was going to faint. my teacher came over and was said that i havn't got symptons of being faint because my face was very red but my whole body was cold and i was finding it hard to breath and i couldnt swallow. i got rushed to hospital and they did all sorts of tests on me and they said i had a vaso-vagal attack. i wasnt abl to communicate with the doctors because i felt very weak and tired. the doctor told me i hav'nt been eating or drinkin enough and i been over doing it (fitnesss wise) and ive got to go back for my blood results for diabeties (sp?) i have done this several times and actully fainted and was unconsious of a few minutes..

so my question is has anyone felt dizzy and fainted after exercise? or whats the best food or snack to eat before exercise?
 
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"my face was very red but my whole body was cold"

did you feel cold yourself or did other people touch you and thought you felt cold to them?
 
I did once. Several weeks ago, I had basically had nothing to eat since breakfast and then blacked out on the leg press machine...

Since then I got on here and learned a lot about proper nutrition, etc...
 
Dswithers : i felt cold on my arms and legs and my teacher said that i was cold too.

~LV~ : i had some cereal in the morning then a biscuit and cup of tea around 11o'clock and this happened about 1o'clock. i didnt have much to eat but i did have something thats why i thought it might not be my eatin that caused it.
thanks 4 taking intrest!!
 
That's a little confusing. A "a vaso-vagal attack" is uncontrollable lowering of blood pressure. A bright red face might indicate high blood pressure or heat stroke, which should make you feel hot to the touch?

You might want to try using to map out your daily food intake and understand the total number of calories you are taking in and your macronutrient ratios (protien/fats/carbs). Once you know that and your calorie requirements we can make suggestions to help. Given what you have said already it sounds like you need some more sources of quality protien in you diet. And, of course, lots of water.
 
Hey, yeah I fainted last year during a football match and felt totally drained the rest of the day. Doctor said I had just overdone it and hadn't been eating the proper diet before hand... Just recently a guy out of my work was playing Gaelic football and had collapsed on the pitch and later died. So I am now really conscious about pushing myself too hard. Going to get a heart rate monitor for training when I’m in the gym......
 
ye I would try and be aware of overdoign it aswell, As you play football, surf, and may be startign to pick up ewight training soon (do it!!), and something else. Just make sure you are getting pleanty of sleep and aren't pushing yourself to hard, try and listen to your body and start to learn when it starts to say that you are pushing it to hard.

Also in relation to the diet I would ask what was your diet like the night before, where you drinking and did you get enough sleep. Also as suggested before try opening a fitday account to measure your daily food intake and the macronutrient breakdown.
 
dswithers said:
That's a little confusing. A "a vaso-vagal attack" is uncontrollable lowering of blood pressure. A bright red face might indicate high blood pressure or heat stroke, which should make you feel hot to the touch?
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I beg to differ on opinion here. a vaso-vagal attack would have been caused by holding her breath or from the strain. It stimulates the vagal nerve enough to cause her to pass out or become close to it.The red sweaty face and cold body make perfect sense because the inclustion of the vagal nerve would cause a rise in ICP and a drop in peripheral circulation in an effort of the body to get more blood and O2 to the brain. So the result to the peripheral vasoconstriction is cold body and the bodies compensation mechanism would cause the hot red sweaty face. The rise in the ICP causes the rest of the symptoms. Now I do agree that it started because of poor eating habits. It is very dangerous. Occulsion of the arteries in the neck can cause you to throw a clot if the conditions are right that means stroke. So if being skinny is so important that you want to risk giving yourself a stroke or damaging your brain in another way due to the increase in ICP by all means keep starving yourself and and exercising like a mad woman. Just my $0.02.
 
i was under alot of emotional stress at the time and i wasnt thinking straight and wasnt thinking about eating well, so thats probally why it happened...but i am not striving to be skinny...i used to have a weight problem (too thin) but ive overcome that now and currently at a healthy weight which i am happy at.
 
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