Understanding Fainting -- Symptoms
What Are the Symptoms of Fainting?
Depending on the cause of your fainting spell, you may have some or all of these symptoms before or during the episode:
- Dizziness
- Weakness
- Sweating
- Blurred vision, seeing spots
- Headache
- Sensation that the room is moving
- Ringing in the ears (see tinnitus)
- Nausea, vomiting
- Paleness
- Tingling or numbness of fingertips and around lips
- Bluish cast to the skin
- Shortness of breath
- Incontinence (involuntary urination or defecation)
Adrenocorticotropic Hormone-Producing Pituitary Tumors
For patients with corticotroph adenomas, transsphenoidal microsurgery is the treatment of choice.[1,2] Remission rates reported in most series are approximately 70% to 90%.[1] In a series of 216 patients, who were operated on using a transsphenoidal approach, 75% experienced long-term remission, 21% experienced persistence of Cushing disease, and 9% had recurrence after the initial correction of the hypercortisolism.[3] In cases in which hypercortisolemia persists, early repeat exploration and/or...
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Call Your Doctor About Fainting If:
You have an unexplained fainting episode. Especially if the episode occurs during exercise, happens during heart palpitations (feeling the heart beat irregularly), or if you have a family history of recurrent fainting or sudden death.
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