I Just Fainted (sort of) ☆Brag About Medical Stuff Here☆

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As far as I'm aware bending your knees isn't supposed to prevent fainting. It's just there because if you do faint with bent knees you'll collapse downwards with your knees bending and you'll just crumple relatively softly. But if you have your legs locked and you faint your knees won't give way and you'll fall flat like a pole. Falling like this means the top of you falls faster and harder, so either you'll smash your face onto the ground or the back of your head.
Bending your knees just prevents more serious injuries should you faint.

I have heard if this before. Yesterday I held onto a bookshelf in the doctor's office when things began to go dark. Maybe I should've remembered to bend my knees just in case

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[General]

It was probably a mixture of having reduced blood and feeling the loving needle being moved around in your arm, lol.

Happened to me once, my veins are quite deep so they miss it many times while taking blood out. Fainted once because I could feel the prick touching my inners and it felt sickening more than painful.

[Badger]

this is common for standing still for prolonged time

at remberance day ceremonies they have paramedics in standby just for this

Basically your body is fighting gravity to keep your blood pumping and make your heart work a lot harder, you're probably not getting enough blood/oxygen to your brain

moving around moves your blood too but you can't really do that if your at attention - can't do much about it

source:CPR course

[AutoBahn]

the feeling of being near to fainting but it not quite happening is so awful imo. it's happened to me three times, all while i had to stand at parade rest or attention any longer than 10 minutes. i bend my knees and everything but it still happens.

Neat, someone else in JROTC. What branch?
In my class, the guys in charge explicitly state that if you're feeling weak/need to throw up/whatever than you can just break formation and sit down/run for bathroom no questions asked for this exact reason. IIRC it's because somebody fainted during a class, and one of our instructors had caught him just in time or something.

[sir dooble]

this is common for standing still for prolonged time

at remberance day ceremonies they have paramedics in standby just for this

Basically your body is fighting gravity to keep your blood pumping and make your heart work a lot harder, you're probably not getting enough blood/oxygen to your brain

moving around moves your blood too but you can't really do that if your at attention - can't do much about it

source:CPR course

If this were true then surely people would be constantly collapsing all the time.
Just think of all the formal military guards around the world, like the Queen's Guard outside Buckingham Palace or Swiss Guards at the Vatican, who would presumably be constantly caught collapsing on the spot.

I'm sure it's just common in parades and the likes because people are stood out there in fairly hot/heavy uniform, usually in the heat, carrying heavy weapons.
Add onto that those who might have skipped a proper breakfast and have low blood sugar. Fainting isn't unlikely in those circumstances, particularly for someone who doesn't normally stand still in those conditions all the time.

[Alyx Vance]

I got my MRI copy yesterday, the photos speak for themself
the red box is my disk where it herniated, from what the paper copy says its pushing into a nerve in my leg
This is how my spine curves, it doesn't allow me to straighten myself out right. The red line is for reference.

[General]

forget... You getting twitches in your leg or somet.?

[carolcat]

As far as I'm aware bending your knees isn't supposed to prevent fainting. It's just there because if you do faint with bent knees you'll collapse downwards with your knees bending and you'll just crumple relatively softly. But if you have your legs locked and you faint your knees won't give way and you'll fall flat like a pole. Falling like this means the top of you falls faster and harder, so either you'll smash your face onto the ground or the back of your head.
Bending your knees just prevents more serious injuries should you faint.

well stuff, we were always told that you passed out because of locking your knees. at least now i know i'm not some horrid abnormality lol. i think my pants were just way too tight, i've had em since last year and i've got a bigger butt now than i did then (i couldn't even bend over to put my shoes on ahah..)

Neat, someone else in JROTC. What branch?

air force

[mod-man]

about a month ago, i lost all feeling from the waist down, and i had no control over anything

according to a friend (while im not taking it as fact but im too lazy to actually find out what the cause was) my blood vessels dilated and made me lose feeling. apparently if it had happened to the higher half of me i could have easily had a stroke and died

all that month i felt twitches in the lower part of my spine, but they've gone away since

[cloudovpein]

Lmfao my brother got a blood test like 3 weeks ago and when she stuck the needle in he looked at it and fainted. I thought he woke up like 3 secs later becuz his eyes were open but he started convulsing and he hit his head really hard on the wall. I was so freaked out that I experienced something similar to yu and had to sit down. When my brother woke up about 10 secs later he was so confused becuz it was his first time fainting.

[F3d323]

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[Badger]

If this were true then surely people would be constantly collapsing all the time.
Just think of all the formal military guards around the world, like the Queen's Guard outside Buckingham Palace or Swiss Guards at the Vatican, who would presumably be constantly caught collapsing on the spot.

I'm sure it's just common in parades and the likes because people are stood out there in fairly hot/heavy uniform, usually in the heat, carrying heavy weapons.
Add onto that those who might have skipped a proper breakfast and have low blood sugar. Fainting isn't unlikely in those circumstances, particularly for someone who doesn't normally stand still in those conditions all the time.

keep in mind these are people with weaker hearts, forgot to mention that