Anne, my grandma had/has vaso-vagal attacks. (That's not quite the right word, I guess.)

Vasovagal episodes.

The advice I got from my doctor for my postural hypotension was to get up more slowly. Irritating advice, but it does work, even if I didn't always follow it. Never get straight up from lying down--sit up, stand up, then walk, pausing for a few seconds inbetween each.

Eat more salt. I hate salty food, so it was salt pills for me. But even eating food commercially available probably significantly ups my salt intake.

I also have to stop stretching my hands above my head while I'm walking. Even when I'm feeling pretty good that can trigger a wavery episode.

Also called Cardioneurogenic Syncope aka the Common Faint. My cardiologist wanted to treat it with los doses of Celexa or the like.

Vasovagal episodes.

I'm pretty sure that's what mine was this morning, too. No idea why it happened the third time I jumped up to hit snooze but not the first two.

Anne, I'm so glad you got checked out again. Feel better.

I'm glad you got it checked out, Anne. I hope it gets better.

Yay for you and the Girl, Seska!

I remember the time I was on Xmas break from college and had fallen asleep on my mom's couch. I woke up, stood up, and was so woozy that I fell backward, landing right on her glass-topped coffee table which just shattered in big pieces. Luckily, I only had a few scratches on my legs.

I cannot ever get up and stand up right away. Part of it is my balance issues with the disability and part of it is low blood pressure. I have to move slowly first thing in the morning.

Lots of clean up got done at home today, and I bought new boots that fit perfectly over my leg braces! At the rate clean up is going I may just be able to have people over by New Years.

All y'all's vasovagal 'sodes are on notice. Please be careful with yourselves. I kinda like your heads in one piece each.

It's weird--my mother had a run of fainting recently, and they focussed their investigations on her GI tract. They always went neurological/vascular when investigating mine. Primarily neurological for my father.

I, of course, got them all the time. Most notably resulting in a several-month-long concussion, and also another one that split my face open. There are two areas in my apartment that I always seem to be able to get to and then feel woozy. I now have a practice of holding onto the walls/furniture around those areas, no matter how I feel, and it's served me well, because it's somehow easier to remember than getting up slowly. How am I supposed to slowly remember something's burning in the oven, or that I need to get the phone before voicemail comes on?

And I moved the sharp-edged furniture (I cracked the back of my head and my face on the same bedside table) out of the danger zone.