Good for you Dan!! Have you figured anything out about the blackouts?
Speyside wrote:
No, and I don't anticipate that I will. But I'm doing my due diligence in case we can find a preventable cause.
This is something that has happened my whole life. Some of my siblings too. As a kid any sudden major stress where you feel your stomach sink, that feeling would continue. My ears ring, then vision narrows and as vision cuts out, so does hearing, then blind and deaf and I feel like nothing matters, very relaxed but dripping sweat. Then I'll start hearing my ears ringing again and start hearing sounds, then open my eyes and in a minute I'm feeling 100%. As an adult its followed the same process, but never have a trigger.
I had many workups done as a child, hospitalized for a while as a young teen, and the "official" answer around age 16 was it was psychiatric, not physiologic.
I went through a full workup again 10 years ago. Neurologist, cardiologist, and endocrinologist all extensively tested, spent about $10k. Only health issues high BP. But when I pass out my BP is extremely low. They all said I dunno.
So far the $5k I've been billed has revealed nothing. Everything 100% normal. I'm wearing a heart monitor for a month right now. Don't anticipate it will reveal anything. If I hit my 12k deductible maybe I'll ask for a few more tests. I think a decade of nightshift has exasperated the issue. It's never happened when im not working too much, and sleeping well. Happened pretty frequently when I had 3 jobs and going to school.
I have low suspicion this round of tests will not reveal anything either. I dont think we'll get an answer with noninvasive testing. I think a reveal monitor for a year or two would be the most beneficial. I think I'm having arrhythmias, but it's never been captured. Seizures are in the differential but without a postictal period, and low BP, that's unlikely.
I hope we find something but I'm not optimistic.