Fainting

I have a chronic issue with blood pressure. Without any reason my blood pressure drops down. I got to know about this a normally only when I was in my 20s. But the first episode had occurred when I was 12 years old.

I was in school. It was the play time. Our teachers took us downstairs on the playground. While we were going to the playground I slipped and fell down. I feel down really hard. First I hate my knees and then my elbows. Knees and elbows so were bruised and scraped really badly. The injury definitely did leave me in a great deal of pain. My knees and elbows were bleeding. While I was recurring myself my friends and my teachers approached. They asked me if I was ok or I was hurt. I said I am fine. I have always been conditioned to tell this. Even if you are not okay you should always tell I am fine. I did that.

Late order on the playground I was standing in a corner. Everyone on the playground had seeing me falling down. I was embarrassed because of that. I wanted to bury my face somewhere. I wanted to disappear. I wanted to become invisible so that nobody looks at me and remembers that I had fallen down. But none of this was possible. Instead something worse happened.

File standing on the playground I felt a sudden rough of blood to my face. My face had become hot. My hands and my feet were tingling. They started going numb. I started sweating heavily. It was the month of December so there was no need to sweat. But still I was sweating. I did not know what is happening to me. Yet I knew that I am not all right. Something is happening to me this is what I thought. Then my vision started bluring. I was not able to see what was in front of me or who was in front of me. Then my hearing got affected. Suddenly I was hearing all robotic voices. All human voices started to sound robotic to me. Now I was not able to see anything. I was having a black out. I was losing control of my legs they were completely number and week. I was not able to stand. But somehow I managed to sit down.

When I saw down my friends and teachers came running to me. The realised that something is massively wrong with me. A classmate came with a bottle of water. First the had sprinkled some water on my face. And then they made me drink water. They told me that I drink water like a thirsty person who had come from the desert. After sometime I started feeling better. The robotic voices started to become human. My vision got restored. My legs became stronger and I was able to stand up. But I was still sweating.

I was taken to the nurses office. When the nurse asked my teacher told her everything. Both embarrassments which happened at the playground. At this point of time I just wanted to die. I thought it was better to be dead then being so embarrassed. After hearing everything from the teacher the nurse told me to show her the ones that I got earlier today. I shwed her the injuries on knees and elbows. She cleaned my wounds. She asked me if I was on my period. I said no. The nurse told my teacher that I should not attend the remaining classes in the school. She informed my teacher that my parents should be called so that they can take me home. My teacher called up my home and ask my mother to pick me from the school.

That evening we visited our family doctor. I told him the story of my embarrassing injuries and fall at school. My doctor gave me vitamins for improvement. He told me to avoid any stressful activities for the next days. Just to be on the safer side he track my blood pressure. It was much lower than the required range. He told me to eat chocolates and drink fruit juices for the next few days.

So thia was unknowingly my first time when it was found that I have hypotension.