"That's what caused me to fall on my face and break my nose in the middle of the night?! My ER doctor seemed satisfied with his less-than-cursory assessment of my bloody nose. In my frenzied state, I asked if I had a concussion. "Unlikely. You're lucky your nose broke the fall," he smirked. Turns out "unlikely" was entirely untrue. And "lucky" was far from it."
A person wakes at 4 a.m. and urgently needs the bathroom, then experiences darkness, ringing, throbbing pain, and impaired vision. Blood pools on a marble floor after a fall, with the nose likely the bleeding source. The person recalls a recent colonoscopy and a burger eaten for dinner, and connects the event to vasovagal syncope, a reflex that drops heart rate and blood pressure during pain, stress, or triggers like seeing blood. The person believes a strained bowel movement while half asleep caused the fall. An ER doctor initially says concussion is unlikely, but later outcomes contradict that assessment. The person tries to return to normal the next morning.
#vasovagal-syncope #medical-emergency #colitis-and-colonoscopy #injury-and-concussion #nighttime-fainting
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