What could be causing these fainting spells?!


Question: What could be causing these fainting spells.?
For the last year my grandpa has been fainting. It has been more often recently. This has become a major problem. The doctors ruled out diabetes and the hospital found a sinus infection. Yet the sinus infection has not been the cause for a year. Anyone have any ideas on what else we could insist on the doctors looking at. Health Question & Answer


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By any chance is he on Cortisone maybe.? Or perhaps a similar medication.? I ask only because I remember my father used to have fainting spells now and then that would frighten me and he wasn't even that old but was on arthritis and pain meds for as long as I can remember. Even as a girl. But I think he also had a problem with low blood sugar though he swore he didn't but he did have to eat something sweet or small meals and snacks regularly as he said it made him feel much better.

Maybe you can double check whatever new meds he has been on too if you can track down what it is was introduced to his system since the spells started as I did have some problems with blood pressure meds and kept telling the doctor and he kept insisting there was no such side effects and sure enough, months later or a year or so... there it was on the perscription.

also sometimes problems with the ear can cause terrible dizzy spells. Though I never completely blacked out, I did have some terrible dizzy spells before and after being diagnosed with Miniere's Syndrome. A few times was weird too cuz I would be sitting feeling fine and all of a sudden I would fall to my left side out of the blue as if something pushed me over really hard haha. Was the freakiest thing. But thank goodness it stopped years ago.Health Question & Answer

There are a lot of potential causes, and it's hard to make a guess at them without knowing more information about what, precisely, was happening at the time he fainted. It could be low blood pressure/poor circulation to the brain--if he stands up abruptly, the blood flow doesn't keep pace with the change in body orientation and he gets dizzy and blacks out (this has happened to me a few time over the past decade or so...it only happens when I'm very short on sleep and borderline dehydrated). This can be due to something relatively harmless (like lack of sleep and dehydration)--or it can be a symptom of something potentially serious (internal bleeding, from an ulcer, for instance--although, since you've pointed out that anemia isn't suspect, it's not very likely to be something of that nature). Is he prone to dizzy spells.?

It could also be changes in brain chemistry, poor oxygen content in his blood...possibly even narcolepsy.? And probably another five or ten things, at least, that I'm not even thinking of. This is really the wrong place to be asking, however...you need someone with an extensive medical background, who can check the possible options against your grandfather's condition. Health Question & Answer

I had a test by my doctor when I lived in Kansas City, Missouri and she found that if I stood up to quickly I caused my blood pressure to drop and that would cause me to faint in reaction to what had just happened. So if this offers any help I pray so. Good Luck and may the Lord stick with you and your family and Doctor's now.Health Question & Answer

enemia.? Low iron in the blood.

ETA: Sounds like you live in my town! Medical advice is far from safe around here.Health Question & Answer



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