Any Doctors/Medical Students on here?

[Sam Kennedy]

I was just wondering if I could get an idea of what is going on. Every time I stand up I get a head rush, I could have as many as 10-15 in a day, and sometimes they are so intense I am on the verge of fainting, and have to grab onto something to stop myself from falling over. I'm also needing to sleep a lot. I'm not sure if this is connected, but my appetite is huge and I normally crave sugary food, and can get bad tempered when I can't find anything decent to eat.

I'm 17, 5ft 10 and 138 lbs.

I'm thinking along the lines of diabetes/hypoglycaemia, or am I way off?

 

[Crackle]

Could be something, could be nowt but we won't be able to tell you. Your GP should be able to check all those things you mentioned with a few simple tests: Make an appt.

 

[addictfreak]

I was just wondering if I could get an idea of what is going on. Every time I stand up I get a head rush, I could have as many as 10-15 in a day, and sometimes they are so intense I am on the verge of fainting, and have to grab onto something to stop myself from falling over. I'm also needing to sleep a lot. I'm not sure if this is connected, but my appetite is huge and I normally crave sugary food, and can get bad tempered when I can't find anything decent to eat.

I'm 17, 5ft 10 and 138 lbs.

I'm thinking along the lines of diabetes/hypoglycaemia, or am I way off?[/QUOTE]

A couple of the symptoms may be common to diabetes, best to get it checked by the doc

 

[gaz]

Defiantly go to your GP, and do not try to self diagnose on the internet, never going to work.

 

[Kirstie]

Sounds like a hangover...but seriously, go to the doc.

 

[Gromit]

Sounds like you have low blood pressure. I went to the doctors with the same symptoms and he sent me away saying its fine, perfectly normal.

 

[dellzeqq]

sounds like you've got bottom-bracket-perigerontitis, and it's reached the acute stage. Go to the doc, although there may not be much he or she can do. (And, yes, this is a cycling forum)

 

[andyfromotley]

Having a medical background (first aid in the workplace certificate 2004), i am having difficulty diagnosing your complaint but i do have the cure. Stop standing up.

 

[JtB]

I did a Google once to find out about dizzy spells when standing up, and guess where it pointed me to.

Yeap, you guessed, right back here to CycleChat. It's been discussed at least once before:
http://www.cyclechat.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=17828mhtml:{74D7CC04-E484-4481-8750-A9E7...forums/showthread.php?t=17828&highlight=faint

Of course, only your doctor will be able to confirm if its the same thing you're experiencing.

PS. If you Google "perigerontitis", it comes up with absolutely zilch, never seen that before.

 

[ufkacbln]

Oh and you can trust me, I'm a nurse........

Friend or Enema?

 

[slowmotion]

Like most others say, get down to the GP, and never self-diagnose , or seek medical advice on the internet. Never.

Good health.

 

[Sam Kennedy]

Haha, I wasn't going to just sit in the house thinking 'the people on cyclechat said it was okay so I'll just sit here and keep fainting'.

I was just looking to see if anyone had any idea what it could be, I'm hoping to get a doctors appointment sometime this week.

 

[Dave5N]

I did a Google once to find out about dizzy spells when standing up, and guess where it pointed me to.

Yeap, you guessed, right back here to CycleChat. It's been discussed at least once before:
http://www.cyclechat.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=17828&highlight=faint

Of course, only your doctor will be able to confirm if its the same thing you're experiencing.

PS. If you Google "perigerontitis", it comes up with absolutely zilch, never seen that before.

Link doesn't work. I get a pop up saying: "mhtml is not a registered protocol."

 

[Stephenite]

Link doesn't work. I get a pop up saying: "mhtml is not a registered protocol."

This does http://www.cyclechat.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=17828&highlight=faint

 

[JtB]

Link doesn't work. I get a pop up saying: "mhtml is not a registered protocol."

Sorry - I've now corrected it in my post, should have been:
http://www.cyclechat.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=17828