Feeling faint and hot sweats Ibs D?

[Abby436]

Hiya I was wondering does anyone else suffer with hot sweats and feeling faint with an ibs flare up? I've been diagnosed with ibs 9 years ago and ive had this happen a few times I was wondering if anyone else was the same

[Maureen1958]

Was this while you were on the toilet?

[Abby436 in reply to Maureen1958]

No before.. Yesterday was bad my vision and everything went blurry I had to shout for my partner it scared me that much with in minutes my hair and clothes where soaked with sweat It was scary

[Maureen1958 in reply to Abby436]

You can have something called a vasovagal attack on the toilet. See attached link:

ctvnews.ca/health/fainting-...

I think the same can happen when you are not on the toilet, but have the urge to go. Perhaps because what's inside you is sitting on the vegas nerve. Well that is my interpretation anyway! I get hot, feel sick and dizzy and have an overwhelming feeling that I want to lay down! I have never fainted in my life so wonder if I am unable to faint (I don't know if that is possible). I can't seem to get an answer to if some people are unable to faint on google. Any thoughts?!

[Freydis]

Absolutely to hot sweats, although I don't feel faint.

[Twentiesbestlife2021]

Yes I reguralt get like this but it passes once I get relief on the toilet but it could be a while before I got relief

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Hi Abby I have ibs c and have episodes of sweating and feeling faint too 😑x

[BabsyWabsy]

I get like this if I eat too much sugar. Can you recall what you had eaten prior to this attack? Do you think there could be a pattern here and this happens when you eat something specific? Now I am aware that sugar gives me a problem, I keep it to a minimum. Last time it happened, some one had given me a box of delicious fudge, not my usual fare, but I could not leave it alone. A couple of hours later came profuse D and sweating all over, my skin was grey and I felt like I might die or at least pass out. Once it is over I am washed out for about a week. Someone on this forum suggested it might be Dumping Syndrome, although I have not been officially diagnosed. In retrospect, I realised this has happened before in similar circumstances. Now, I am very careful to limit sugar intake to avoid this osmotic diarrhoea. So far so good.

[Maureen1958 in reply to BabsyWabsy]

Hi BabsyWabsy, I think what you are experiencing when you have too much sugar is the vasovagal atttack which I mentioned above to Abby436. Have a look at it:

ctvnews.ca/health/fainting-...

Maureen

[BabsyWabsy in reply to Maureen1958]

It is possible, although I am not usually a fainter. The odd thing is how long I am under the weather afterwards.

[Maureen1958 in reply to BabsyWabsy]

I'm not a fainter either. I have never fainted. But I had these really odd episodes when I was in my late teens/early twenties when I would come over really odd. It's a long time ago, over 40 years ago. It generally happened on the way to work, either on the station platform or on the train on one occassion and I would come over odd (maybe a bit hot, like I say it was a long time ago) but then the next thing was very weird and I have told various people over the years but nobody seems to know what it was. I am going to ask my doctor next time I go! So, I guess I felt unwell because I used to try to walk back to where the other passengers and staff were. I used to get in the front of the train, anyway as I walked back toward the ticket office, I slowly lost my vision, all I could see was like a red colour, like if you close your eyes and look at the sun. Like I say it happened a few times. I guess it lasted just a few minutes, because by the time I got back to the ticket office my sight was just coming back again. Funny thing was that I stayed calm. I assumed it was like you get when you faint but I didn't actually pass out. But it was a bit scary walking back to the ticket office because I literally couldn't see where I was going, I just kept thinking make sure you walk in a straight line, I didn't want to end up on the tracks. I couldn't really ask anyone to help as I couldn't see anyone to ask anyway, although I could sense people were there. I can only think that I might have been worried about work but I can't remember being worried about anything in particular. The time when I was on the train and it happened I was standing up between the seats in the middle corridor (because the train was packed), so just stood there until my sight came back. It was just coming back as we pulled into London Bridge Station as I recall, so I got off for a while and sat on a bench on the station and got the next train through to Charing Cross.

So what I am saying in a very convoluted way is that I don't think I am able to faint! So I don't faint when I have one of these vasovagal episodes, which I am please about as I woudn't want to wake up on the floor. But I do have this overwhelming feeling that I want to lay down on the floor. But it can go on a long time, so sometimes I think if I fainted I might feel better when I woke up but then again I might feel worse. On occasions I have laid on the floor and feel a bit better until I stand up again, so that doesn't really work. Sometimes I try to resume going to the toilet sometimes I don't, it depends how rough I feel! But I think it's all to do with the vegas nerve and when you stand up your bowel is in contact with it and when you lay down it is not pushing on your bowel quite so much or your bowel is not pushing on the nerve so much. I don't know if that makes any sense to you are anyone else that might be reading this. But mine doesn't go on for days like yours, it's over after an hour or so but I seems a long hour, like I am suspended in time!

[BabsyWabsy in reply to Maureen1958]

That must have been terrifying. All those people and no-one spotted anything wrong? I have never experienced anything like that, although as a teen, I could black out if I stood up too quickly, but that didn't last. My vasovagal episodes (?) don't last long, it is just the aftermath of extreme tiredness that does.

[Maureen1958 in reply to BabsyWabsy]

Yes, I get very tired now that I'm in my sixties. I had so much more energy to deal with it all when I was younger.

[diana16]

Hi Abby,Yes I have experienced this a few times, the worst was while I was staying with my son and he wanted to call an ambulance! I suddenly felt faint and went to the loo where I had to stay until it passed. I was as white as a sheet and sweating buckets. I mentioned it to the doctor when I got home and asked her what had caused it and she just replied "food". I suffer with ibs C and think something has upset me which couldn't get through until I had passed what was already in my bowel. It's a very scarey experience.

[Spiralmist]

Hi Abbu436I have had this on quite a few occasions, I'm very lucky that my husband will come and sit with me while I'm on the toilet, it's the most horrific feeling, I cry and have pins and needles everywhere, sweating but feeling cold and very faint xx

[MeganW96 in reply to Spiralmist]

Same here! I know when it’s about to happen aswell and know I need to go straight to the toilet and will be there for 30 mins. I’m constantly tackling needing to be on the toilet and having to lay down with my legs up! Many times I thought I was going to faint off the toilet 🤣