Why do I faint at the doctor? How can I prevent this? [more inside]
posted by emilyd22222 on May 26, 2009 - 27 answers

Help me overcome my queasiness and nausea around blood and guts. [more inside]
posted by gwpcasey on Apr 6, 2009 - 20 answers

This afternoon we took our 5 month old Boxer puppy to the local dog park for the first time. She got so excited as we approached, that she pulled and panted and pulled, then clearly fainted. What could be the apparent reason for this? [more inside]
posted by blastrid on Mar 23, 2008 - 16 answers

Am I "making myself sick"? Or am I hypoglycemic? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Feb 9, 2008 - 13 answers

Why do people faint? What are the physical/psychological causes of fainting? and also, can you faint on purpose? How?
posted by barrakuda on Sep 26, 2007 - 21 answers

Has anyone had the experience of being sick, weak, panicky, malnourished, anemic, perhaps about to faint, and the world turns into a kind of claustrophobic twilight horror zone where you feel like a ragged ghost or like you've stepped into another ghastly dimension, even though everything looks and sounds EXACTLY the same and you know you're physically in the same place and you can even talk rationally, but now your world has just turned into a kind of hell? [more inside]
posted by serena15221 on May 15, 2007 - 21 answers

Occasionally, when standing up too quickly, or just for the helluvit my senses get overwhelmed with what I can only call brain static. What the hell, neurology? [more inside]
posted by TwelveTwo on Aug 12, 2006 - 29 answers