Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Passing out and Peeing Myself

So here is a funny story. I go to pick up my friend Nick at the airport, because that is what friends do. I'm having a good old time playing my accordion and what not, and then we decide to go to Chili's. We being Melissa, Anni, Dane, Katie G, and myself. I sit down to enjoy some Chili's and before the waiter can even bring us the water I passed out. The best part is that everyone thought that I was just messing around. Boy who cried wolf anyone? I slumped over against the window and Melissa tried to get me to stop "messing around". Finally I sort of snap out of of it and lay my head down on the table. I felt sweaty and hot all over. After about a minute I realized that I peed myself. That's right I passed out and peed myself in the middle of Chili's. I felt fine almost immediately so we got up and left it for the waiter to clean up like any grown man would. Everyone was adamant about me going to the hospital so Katie G got me a bag to sit on and Anni drove Melissa and I to the hospital. Where good times were had by all.


This is me about to get a sonogram of my heart. It's a girl!


They had to monitor my heart with these extremely sticky pads. Melissa sure had some fun ripping them off.


Look at all that hair!

Don't worry. I'm okay. I spent the night at the hospital and they ran a ton of Brain tests and Heart tests but it wasn't a seizure and I have a regular heart beat. So chalk it up to one of the thousands of things doctors can't explain. In all likely hood they said it shouldn't happen again. I was given a clean bill of health and I drove home. As of this post it has been a little over 24 hours since I peed myself.

31 comments:

Anonymous said...

I had the same thing happen to me like four years ago. Dr's never figured out why. Just said I must have blacked out. You story is the same as mine, minus the peeing part.
But I was out for only 10- 15 second, and when I snapped back into reality, for a half a second I had this awesome most incredible sensation in my legs, then a realized when where I was and what had happened (in a split second) and an overwhelming feeling of hot/cold chills clamminess.... it was crazy.

Anonymous said...

Same thing happened to me at an amusement Park passed out from playing mini golf temporarily went blind and deaf and I also peed my self thank god I had extra clothes and recovered after entering the air-conditioned arcade I blame it on the evil sun -_- but what would I know I never went to the doctors eh to Mexican for all that

nick pickrell said...

google search did not let me down, mr. "passing out and peeing myself."

Devyn said...

what happened to "Billy, the hairless wonder?"

Anonymous said...

Whatever happened to incident #2?

Anonymous said...

Same exact thing happened to me yesterday at a horse race. The race started, I heard the horses take off, and the next thing I know I'm on the ground with a crowd of EMTs around me. I had passed out for 2 minutes and peed myself. When I got up I felt completely fine. My friend was pretty shaken up though. She said she thought I was having a seizure but I have no history of epilepsy so I think its just another medical mystery.

Anonymous said...

Me too. I was at a concert. My heart raced I turned to my boyfriend and said we need to leave. Then I immediately passed out into him. When I came to, I realized I had wet myself. I don't think I was getting enough oxygen or maybe I panicked from the crowd. Eventually, I felt perfectly fine.

Anonymous said...

I had the same thing happen to me today! I'm back packing through Europe and while on an early flight I woke up from my sleep and felt really weird. I asked the little girl next to me to let me out and then I just blacked out! When I came to I had all the flight attendants around me and was pretty banged up from my fall. After they moved me out of the isle since I made a huge scene, l realized I had Peres my pants!
No clue why it happened and didn't see a doctor since I'm traveling but hope it doesn't ever happen again. It's scary, embarrassing and actually pretty funny... After.

Anonymous said...

Same thing happened to me today at work... So embarrassing! I donated blood and 10 minutes later I was on my office floor for what they say was a few seconds (I felt like it was forever!). I woke to the sensation of me peeing myself -___- took me to the hospital and all is fine ... Definitely not donating blood again

Anonymous said...

Same story. Middle of the night, up to take a leak, felt dizzy, got down to hands and knees and went out. Awoke when my face enthusiastically greeted the bathroom floor. Noted to myself that "THAT hurt!", rolled over and went out again. When I awoke I'd peed myself. I'd been fasting and was dehydrated. Duh.

Anonymous said...

I'm not alone...

I was getting Physiotherapy treatment on my neck. And my Physio said "Let's try Acupuncture" and I was like "Well why not, I've never done it before".

But by the time she stuck the final needle in (this was were all the pain was on the side of my neck), my hearing started to go and my eye sight went all funny. Like I had rubbed them really hard and all I could see was the blood vessel pattern in the back of my eyes.

All I was telling myself was "Just push through it, it's only 15 minutes you are just making yourself ill for some reason unknown to even yourself". The next second I thought I blinked. But apparently I was out for like 3 minutes, passed out in the chair snoring my head off with my head tilted back at a extremely odd angle and my eyes rolled into the back of my head. My Physio was freaking out trying to get me to wake up.

When she did wake me up I felt like no time had passed, to me my brain was working fine but I couldn't put words together easily because my body seemed exhausted.

And I didn't realize until they got me up on the bed that I even wet myself. It was so embarrassing... I felt so ashamed. I couldn't even feel it. And it was probably because I was cold and clammy.

My Physio and the receptionist calmed me down and told me not to worry because they were very concerned that something extremely serious had just happened since my blood pressured had just dropped so suddenly.

Went to the Doctor, had some tests done and blood drawn (don't know those results yet). But he thinks that since I have a viral infection, combining it with the acupuncture just caused my blood pressure to drop in turn making me pass out. And advised anything needle related from now on, I need to be in laying down so I have less of a chance of passing out.

But things I should have done before I went to the Physio. Had a good breakfast to keep my blood sugar up, I don't have diabetes but it does help keep your blood pressure in check.

Just making sure you eat regularly and not skipping will help your body maintain your blood pressure, that was advice from my Aunt.

I don't know if I will try acupuncture again. If I do I will have to have a completely empty bladder.

Anonymous said...

Same thing just happened to me, was in the street suddenly felt a bit sick and dizzy so sat down on a step then the next thing I wake up with my boyfriend and a few other people asking if I'm ok and I realise I've peed myself. So embarrassing I can't laugh about it yet.

Anonymous said...

A bit relieved to know that others have gone through this as well. But still as mortified! This afternoon, went to donate blood (which I have done before). I felt perfectly fine at first. Then some minutes later, i felt a little weird. Sat down, just knowing I was going to black out, and I did. Felt like a long sleep. When I came to, some of the medics were getting me to lie down on the reclining beds, and as I got up I realized i had wet myself!! Oh, did I forget to mention that this was in a shopping mall? So there were lots of ppl...including a few ppl I knew/am related to... I'm so so so embarrassed. Just want to hide myself and die. Does this feeling ever go away? (I'm hoping they think I spilled water or something, since i was holding a bottle of water when i passed out).....
FML.

Anonymous said...

My 26 yo son just had his annual physical and called me to bring him some clean pants. He passed out during his blood withdrawl, peed himself. I'm looking it up to make sure he's ok. Wow, happens a lot I see.

Anonymous said...

Happened to me last night, woke up at 5am with bad stomache pains so I got up to go to the bathroom, all of a sudden I felt weird, can't really explain it but it was like I couldn't think in words like my inner dialogue shut off. I barely remember blacking out and I woke up pissing myself, but for about five seconds I didn't actually know I was peeing I just observed the feeling of it, trying to make sense of it lol. Took me a few seconds to remember who and where I was. Would of scared the piss out of me but, well yeah.

Anonymous said...

Same thing happened to me yesterday at an amusement park! Yes, in front of hundreds of people. I was out for about 5 minutes and I peed myself.

Anonymous said...

Dreamt I was killed in hale of bullets I lay on the ground and I could actually feel my self dyeing,slowely my breath stopped I was blacking out and could feel myself shutting down....i woke up with the same feeling of short breath and like I was gunna pass out or be sick. I got out of bed made it halfway across to door and ended up in a slump on floor and blacked out and wet my self ???? Very scary .but wife I more scarred any ideas ???

Anonymous said...

This happened to me last night, and also about a year ago. I had been passing out randomly and so they took me to the ER, once they drew my blood I passed out and peed myself. Over a year later it happened to me again. Last night, while I was getting my very first tattoo. It was defiantly an experience I will never forget. Idk about getting another one, I did suck it up though and finished that tattoo like a boss. I'm good now, just really tired, and a bit embarrassed. Haha

Anonymous said...

I just went through this today, glad to know it's not as uncommon as I thought. So I have always had vasovagal syncope when I see blood or open wounds. (Funny thing is I enjoy dark art, tattooing and horror movies, but they don't trigger it) Anyways, today, spur of the moment after a long night of drinking and almost no sleep, I decided to have my friend pierce my nipples. The needle went through, I handled the pain just fine, but when he went to put the bar in the needle slipped and I made the mistake of looking down. Needless to say I went out... When I woke up I had pissed myself (had a change of clothes in the car luckily) and felt just fine... It was strange. He was convinced I had a seizure because o bit my tongue and convulsed as well, but I knew it was probably because I was ill prepared for the situation and I have a bad history of passing out at the sight of physical trauma. (I have multiple tattoos and piercings and usually prepare my body for it in advance)

So word of advice, before you end up in a situation where you may pass out,
1: go pee first.
2: eat.
3: iron helps...
4: put your legs up and let whoever is there know about what might occur.

Hope this helps someone.

Unknown said...

Hey, so im having the same problem. But i have blacked out like 8 times in the past 3 months and 2 times i pissed myself. I went to the doctors and they can figure it out. They said it wasn't a seizure .PLEASE HELP ME FIGURE OUT WHAT I HAVE. YOU CAN TEXT ME 901-210-4630

Anonymous said...

Low blood pressure is why i pass out. Blood pools in your legs and does not flow to the brain causing my blood pressure to plummit. Your body's natural course is to go horizontal so the blood will flow. Stay hydrated especially when having alcohol and lay down with legs elevated if you like you ate going to pass out (clammy hands and faced turns very white). Med i take daily is called florinef (Fludocortizone) which keeps your blood pressure normalized. The syndrome i have is called vasodepressor and can be quite dangerous if it happens while driving or walking down stairs. Tell your loved ones that you must lay down if you pass out, it will save your life. Have your sodium levels checked, may need to increase salt in your diet unlike the rest of the world. My diagnosis was confirmed following a tilt table test.

Unknown said...

Same thing happened to me today as well during blood withdrawal... was out for about a munute dr said...woke up knew what happened and where i was and saw that i wet myself... im a 32 yr old male and its happen to me twice where i passed out n wet myself during blood work

Unknown said...

Same thing happened to me today as well during blood withdrawal... was out for about a munute dr said...woke up knew what happened and where i was and saw that i wet myself... im a 32 yr old male and its happen to me twice where i passed out n wet myself during blood work

Anonymous said...

Exactly the same thing happened to me at school today. I donated blood, walked to class, ate my cookies and juice. Then I walked to my friends desk, all of a sudden felt dizzy, I felt someone grab me and pull me up, but I couldn't see anything, then I was on the floor in the passage, in my own piss. I ask the teacher who was holding me, what is this? Then she said she didn't know, but I soon realised I peed myself. I walked to the office perfectly fine.

Anonymous said...

Same thing happened to me at school, but I passed out in the school hallway and peed myself... in front of my whole class, and the teachers, and students in the hallway.

Anonymous said...

I was laying in bed watching Netflix and I was fartin' it up a bit. Had some gas, all alone, lol let the chainsaw rip. Well suddenly my stomach hurt real bad and I was like %&#@ I gotta sh-- or something. So I go to drop one and my gut is hurting then I start to kinda feel nautious and like pre-sweaty, like just a real heavy sh-- coming on. But I take my clothes all the way off and I start breathing kinda heavy and I literally just out of nowhere think to myself "whew damn...Jesus take the wheel on this one haha" and I start getting dizzy.

I'm thinking well this ain't good so I put my phone down and I try to chill and just breathe. Then my vision starts blurring some and I'm like uh oh bro I'm bout to die or something, this is it, this is how they'll find my body, naked, sh---y asshole on the floor of my bathroom with weird paranormal tabs open on my phone. I always knew it would end this way lol.

So I half lay and half fall onto the floor and IDK what happened next my memory is kinda fuzzy but I went unconscious and kinda had 0 thoughts for a second. Could hear weird noises but at the time I don't remember really hearing them. Kinda trippy cuz I felt like I was trying to sit up but I definitely wasn't irl. I start to come to and this buzzing or hissing type noise is getting louder and bringing me back to consciousness. I'm like using my head I think against the corner of the wall and hardwood floor to get up because my neck is killing me. I had peed all over the floor and only noticed when I got up.

Check how much time has passed. It's some amount of minutes like 3 - 10. I make sure I'm good enough to stand and check my face in the mirror I guess as a reality check to make sure I was awake cuz I thought I was sort of during it, until I actually started coming out of whatever happened.

Had some neck pain from what I assume was me jutting up against the wall with my head at a weird angle. Or from jerking around if it was a seizure. Never had any before though.

Anonymous said...

This JUST happened, I googled it when I got out of the shower and read through some of this to see some similar stories and I'm glad I'm not alone with this mysterious black-out/pee-yourself experience

Anonymous said...

Yes this is almost the same as my long story a few posts down below. Did you ever find out what caused it or are you dead...

Unknown said...

The same thing happened to me last night. My husband said I even quit breathing for about 10-15 seconds. I had this happen once before about 6 years ago, but didn't pass out or pee myself that time. Went to the ER and left with a heart monitor. Did you ever find out what yours was? Everyone thinks mine is stress.

Anonymous said...

Same happened with me

Anonymous said...

Almost every time I pass out I’m stressed. It happened a lot when I was pregnant, it happens a lot when I’m in crowded spaces (and feeling a little overwhelmed) it also happens more when I’m at my slimmest.