Help!?!?! I keeping passing out and I dunno what it is?

Question

I am 22 years old and I am white. I was playing hockey and in the middle of my shift I started blacking out, I passed out half way to the bench. I am in awesome shape, but my buds say Im too skinny. I am pretty agile and hardly ever get hit. I have passed out at home too and at work. They told me I was confused, unconscious, and unresponsive. A nurse checked me out and said I had a high HR, RR, palor, but normal BP. My blood sugar was 2.0 mmol/L. The docs say this is why I passed out . . . but I was tested for diabetes and I am not diabetic (type1 or 2). ideas?????

Answer 1

Wow! that is a doozer...I would tend to wonder at first if you were a diabetic but if you were tested for this and it was negative then I suspect maybe something else is wrong.

The only thing that I can logically think about is that if you were an intravenous drug injector, for example injection of insulin, your blood glucose would drop way below normal especially if you're not a diabetic. It has been known for sometime now that body builders use insulin before competition to bulk up. Insulin is used to increase protein uptake and deposition. It helps build muscle tissue as well as increases stores of glucose in the liver and muscle. If you increase the storage of these you also increase the water content associated with them and therefore do physically get larger. But, the serious potential consequence is having a low blood sugar level that can put you into a diabetic coma and KILL you. Other than that I am usure. But if I find something else I will let you know. Good luck on your endeavor. Keep up with seeing the doctor if you can.

Answer 2

misoma may be on the money with this. You aren't diabetic though - a low blood sugar would only come about if you had had insulin or other anti-diabetic agents and had taken exercise and not eaten. People who have undiagnosed diabetes in fact have high blood sugar and this can adversely affect the body by causing kidney disease, heart disease, peripheral vascular disease and ophthalmic disease. The reason your blood sugar was low was because you obviously aren't eating properly (you may show ketones in your urine and have smelly breath) and you're exercising hard. The high HR was because you had been exercising and it may also be due to anaemia and low blood volume, although you BP was 'normal'. Your resps were high for probably the same reason. This leaves your diet and your heart as the probable causes. Increase your dietary carbs - but make sure its not the refined carbs such as sweets, cakes and biscuits. Instead have rice, potatoes, bread and pasta at least twice a day. These are easier for your body to metabolise and will sustain you longer. With the refined carbs you get peaks and troughs where you feel high then crash, craving more sugar.
best of luck, but do keep an eye on things and treat your body like a Lamborghini - put the best into it and you'll get the best out of it!

Answer 3

Even though you may not be diabetic, sometimes when you work out hard, are skinny, and may not have eaten anything in a while, the blood sugars can drop a little. The liver will usually compensate for that by producing it's own sugars, but you can still feel whoozy, light-headed, etc.

Also, go see your PCP, tell him what's going on and he'll order a whole slew of blood work, including blood counts to see if there's anything else going on. Get it checked out though,it may not be anything serious, but don't take any chances.

Answer 4

keep some chocolate handy just for the purpose of shocking your system with sugar when you feel its about to happen or coming close until you get a better opinion at whats causing the problem... you said you play hockey, did you by any chance get hit in the cranium area(head) at any point, could be a blood clot forming upsetting your normal do of things, u may also have to get several different opinions from other doc's, and or a cat scan

Answer 5

For those who believe youre getting adequate water, you better be getting sixty four oz. A day, peeing clear, stuff like that, tons of water is just right for you maintains you from getting kidney stones and bladder infections, are you eating 3 typical size ingredients a day? Tecnically its nonetheless healthful to consume 5 breakfast, then like an apple, then lunch, then like a diff fruit or something, then dinner.

Answer 6

There may be many reasons one passes out- it is called syncope. But in your case, if you are passing out during exercise, it may be cardiac. there is a rare heart disorder called ASH (asymetric septal hypertrophy) also sometimes called hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. Aortic Stenosis can also cause exertional syncope as well as different types of arrythmias. See a cardiologist if it persists. It is recurrent in about 1/3 of cases.

Answer 7

Maybe you're anaemic get a blood test from the doc.

Answer 8

try taking a multivitamin tablet once aday, not enough vitamins and iron makes you pass out.

Answer 9

start searching for answers on www.webmd.com