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Unusual collapse

This describes a TIA.
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Transient-ischaemic-attack/Pages/Introduction.aspx
You may also have had something called syncope.
http://wwwp.medtronic.com/Newsroom/...=1160041417054&itemType=fact_sheet&lang=en_IN
What is syncope or fainting?

***Syncope (sing'-koe-pee), the medical term for fainting, is the sudden loss of consciousness and physical collapse due to lack of blood and oxygen to the brain. Syncope can occur with or without warning, as an isolated event, or frequently over time. Syncope is sometimes characterized by symptoms that mimic an epileptic seizure such as confusion muscle twitching, shaking, convulsions and physical collapse. ***
Phone your Practice Manager, explain the situation and ask her if she can get your appointment brought forward as you are desperate and scared to know what is going on and you have a young family so cannot go through this as yet unknown condition with no adult in the house at all times as you cannot rely on your children to deal with something like this.
If she says that she cannot help you then phone PALS attached to the Hospital where your appointment will take place.
 
catherinecherub said:
This describes a TIA.
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Transient-ischaemic-attack/Pages/Introduction.aspx
You may also have had something called syncope.
http://wwwp.medtronic.com/Newsroom/...=1160041417054&itemType=fact_sheet&lang=en_IN
What is syncope or fainting?

***Syncope (sing'-koe-pee), the medical term for fainting, is the sudden loss of consciousness and physical collapse due to lack of blood and oxygen to the brain. Syncope can occur with or without warning, as an isolated event, or frequently over time. Syncope is sometimes characterized by symptoms that mimic an epileptic seizure such as confusion muscle twitching, shaking, convulsions and physical collapse. ***
Phone your Practice Manager, explain the situation and ask her if she can get your appointment brought forward as you are desperate and scared to know what is going on and you have a young family so cannot go through this as yet unknown condition with no adult in the house at all times as you cannot rely on your children to deal with something like this.
If she says that she cannot help you then phone PALS attached to the Hospital where your appointment will take place.
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Thankyou very much for you're help and advice people it is a great support to me. Thank you catherinecherub will do that first that thing tomorrow and the medical term piece is good information too will use that term whilst speaking to the doctor and will see if they will try and do something else quicker. X
 
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