You might have a fainting (Neurcardiogenic Syncope/dysautonomia) if. . ..
-You have ever fallen 10 times in a day and still think it is a good day.
-Your standard poodle backs away from you before you know you are going to faint so that you don’t fall on him.
-You have ever been asked not to walk upright in a grocery store.
-You have ever been kicked out of the cardiac gym at the hospital.
-Your roommate carries salt packets to revive you when you faint.
-Your pharmacy has ever told other customers, “Oh, it is SS leave her on the floor-she’ll pop up.”
-Your mother, a physician, hears a thud in church and it takes her a minute to realize that her daughter wasn’t there.
-Your mother, pulls out her breathing tube after surgery and starts yelling “It is just SS, DON”T CALL !! You were in another state when this happened.
-You seriously consider buying stock in Gatorade.
-You wear kneepads daily.
-You have ever fallen and been told “well, at least it was graceful”
-You sit by your father’s younger brother at all family events. (though I think this might be a case of my father still torturing his little brother.)
-There is only one person in town who will train you.
-First graders think the therapy dog belongs to you.
-A first grader has ever told an adult- “It’s ok. Sometimes SS falls down.”
-You have become a subject of conversation.
-A friend of your parents who “never” watches MTV tells your mother about two programs where the person faints.
-your priest has given your father an article about fainting on the way out of church.
-Your crawling skills are excellent.
-The best medical minds in the country have narrowed your diagnosis as “something weird.”
-your PCP watches a video of your fainting, and then refers to it as a horror show.
-You write lists like this.
