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Yesterday afternoon I went to take a shower and wash my hair. So far, so normal.
I sat in the tub and shaved my stubbly legs. So far, so normal, even if I've been a bit inconsistent about it during the winter.
I wanked for a bit. Again, pretty normal.
Then I stood up and started the hot water and rinsed myself off. Just about the time I'd gotten all my hair wet, I adjusted the water which was getting chilly. My vision went all black blobs with yellow edges. I reached for the grab bar and hung on for a moment. Started to taste bile in my throat. Shut off the water and huddled down on the bottom of the tub until the nausea settled down and my vision cleared.
I tried again. Stood up, turned the water back on to a nice toasty warm...and promptly found myself crashing to the bottom of the tub. Bashed my right cheekbone and above my right eyebrow on the inner tub edge, scraped my right knee and left elbow, and scratched up the silver ring on my right hand.
Tammie and Chris called from the living room, "Are you OK?" I said, "Noooooo...." and they came running. After lying on the floor of the tub for a while with a couple of towels over me against the cold, and multiple checks whether my eyes were dilated different sizes, we think I wasn't concussed and I probably "just" fainted. Doesn't seem likely to have been low blood sugar or lack of salt: I had just eaten quite a bit of pizza a couple hours prior. Might have been my usual orthostatic hypotension, but the symptoms differed somewhat--I've never know that to be temperature related, and the hot water really did seem to trigger it--and I don't usually faint or fall down, nor does the dizziness linger the way it did yesterday. Or it might have been related to menstruation (or "punctuation", as we call it around my house). I did once faint in tenth grade calculus class, apparently due to menstruation.
So I really don't know. But I seem to be okay today, except for my face hurting. I even escaped a black eye, surprisingly enough, although the bruising might still come up.
I sat in the tub and shaved my stubbly legs. So far, so normal, even if I've been a bit inconsistent about it during the winter.
I wanked for a bit. Again, pretty normal.
Then I stood up and started the hot water and rinsed myself off. Just about the time I'd gotten all my hair wet, I adjusted the water which was getting chilly. My vision went all black blobs with yellow edges. I reached for the grab bar and hung on for a moment. Started to taste bile in my throat. Shut off the water and huddled down on the bottom of the tub until the nausea settled down and my vision cleared.
I tried again. Stood up, turned the water back on to a nice toasty warm...and promptly found myself crashing to the bottom of the tub. Bashed my right cheekbone and above my right eyebrow on the inner tub edge, scraped my right knee and left elbow, and scratched up the silver ring on my right hand.
Tammie and Chris called from the living room, "Are you OK?" I said, "Noooooo...." and they came running. After lying on the floor of the tub for a while with a couple of towels over me against the cold, and multiple checks whether my eyes were dilated different sizes, we think I wasn't concussed and I probably "just" fainted. Doesn't seem likely to have been low blood sugar or lack of salt: I had just eaten quite a bit of pizza a couple hours prior. Might have been my usual orthostatic hypotension, but the symptoms differed somewhat--I've never know that to be temperature related, and the hot water really did seem to trigger it--and I don't usually faint or fall down, nor does the dizziness linger the way it did yesterday. Or it might have been related to menstruation (or "punctuation", as we call it around my house). I did once faint in tenth grade calculus class, apparently due to menstruation.
So I really don't know. But I seem to be okay today, except for my face hurting. I even escaped a black eye, surprisingly enough, although the bruising might still come up.
