I also get lightheaded before a bowl movement almost every time and it's awful. I also get shaky and anxious and dizziness. Seen a GI doc a few years ago and he said could be from my Vagus nerve. Not much I can do about that but I do know I can't libe like this!
I really thought I was the only person they goes threw this.. Shewww ,lol but I get dizzy sometimes my heart papatates but not to much..
I feel like I want to pass out and even get weak. Then a lit while after I have a moment I feel so much better.. But this is causing me to have panic attacks with I do suffer from once in a while... Does anyone know what this is are what causes it
Richard you are not alone I feel the same way and it trigers me to have panic attacks .I hate this it is the worse and I have no idea what this is are what causes it...but I will definitely keep you in my prayers for complete healing ...
I have been to a GI Specialist for this problem. I have similar symptoms as u do. I start to feel lightheaded 1st and it feels like my blood pressure drops too then within 5 mind or so I have to go #2. Sometimes I get shaky to but not always. I usually feel better about 30 mins after I go to the bathroom. My GI Dr said it's most likely due to the Vagas nerve. Its more of an annoyance than it is dangerous cuz in some of the more sever cases ppl pass out and hit their head b4 a bowel movemovement or while pushing. I don't get dizzy every time I go but it happens often enough and I dread it. My General Dr's explanation is that when your body is getting ready to have a bowel movement all the blood rushes to your stomach and away from your head which causes the dizziness. Both Dr's make sense and said if it gets bad enough to tolerate they can implant a pacemaker. I'm not there yet and hope I never will be but I have to say it is comforting to know that I'm not suffering alone!
Hi there,
I suffered from faintness, cold sweat and occasionally nausea followed by bowel movement, for 5 years now, while the last couple of years the situation got so worse that my social life was affected.
Many visits to all kinds of doctors, many tests, no finds. Most of the times I was advised to visit a neurologist.
Well, I had a breakthrough and I want to share it with you.
Three weeks ago I visited another gastrointestinal doctor who prescribed:
1)one tablet pantoprazole 40mg every morning 30 minutes before eating, taken for 2 weeks
2)one tablet diazepam+clidinium bromide (2mg+2.5mg) morning and one tablet night, 30 minutes before eating.
The change was immediate! During these 20 days, I have found myself again. My energy is back. No fainting spells followed by bowel movements.
I know it maybe too soon to tell, but my problem was so frequent and I was feeling soooooo bad, that the change is overwhelming!
Hope this may help.
All the best
Hi Carl36762
I have just came acroos your post after I have started searching for answers myself as I to have this problem and have had it now for a few years. In my case it seem to have started after I got very ill a few years ago and the Doctors diagnosed me with CFS and a possible Autoimmune disease. I have slowly gotten better over the last 3 years, but I to still have a few ongoing issues and this problem is one of them sometimes it even feels like i'm going to pass out. But the same as you after I go I start to feel better..As this is an old post just wondering if you have found any answers..
Did the cortisol work for you?
When pushing you lower your blood pressure. Do you have blood pressure issues at all? Low or high. It is actually a way to lower it and lower palpatations oddly.
Thank you for sharing! I just had this same issue 20 minutes ago. I will try your suggestion & read more into defecation syncope. Im glad to see im not the only one suffering with this. It does suck i was woken up by this. Now to have to force myself back to sleep.
If you are still suffering with any symptoms and the doctor as done all the checks. Like everything you are describing is exactly what I went through and after a long time I then was diagnosed with a sort of anxiety and panic attacks witch are very bad of left untreated but it's very treatable
Hello Teresa,
Reading your post here, made me feel much better.... Thank you, for sharing with us here! I too, have (no Gall bladder) and feel amazing most days. I have to add that I have been doing the Paleo lifestyle now for over a year.... and feeling more than AMAZING everyday. I do believe these moments are indeed related to major stress and nothing more. I will share with you my experience yesterday. I've had a lot of "family" stress lately and not able to escape its feeling over me, its really hard when its someone you love. Anyway - yesterday I was out shopping for Christmas & I was feeling great, but I needed to potty and I found a bathroom quick! Before I got there, I started feeling dizzy & faint, weak & very HoT a super flush of heat over took me. I stripped off my clothes and sat down in only my bra. I was sweaty, weak and then, right after I got cold and felt normal. I finished my moment, got dressed, wash my hands put back on my gloves & left the store. When I got to my car, I sat there in shock?? I had to strip my clothes off??? I'd never gotten that Hot before?? I had some Water in the car and within a few mintues I felt like myself again. It was the strangest potty moment I'd ever had & I was very weird at the time. Like I said, I've been doing the Paleo lifestyle & normally feel amazing all the time. I do believe it was the added stress & the fact I hadn't gone to the bathroom in a couple of days. Maybe it was pushing on the nerves like the Dr. friend said in the post above. I hope this helps you Teresa, you are not alone & it seems I am not either. Sam
I know your pain.
I have suffered with panic and anxiety for a few years now and have been on some meds with some cbt for it and it has pretty much killed random panic attacks dead which is great.
However now that the constant attacks are over I have noticed that I still get random panic feeling pre certain type of bowel movement, also pre vomiting often for no reason.
I have no problem believing that my anxiety has a root cause and has been at least been sort of dealt with.
I am 35 years old and one of the tests my doctor did was hormonal anxiety in your 30's can be a sign that you are peri menopausal it can be triggers just by being a bit older and a drop in your hormones.
My hormones came back normal but they said that because they had nothing to compare it with they could have dropped still within normal range but less for me if you see what I mean.
For me right now I am starting to wonder if it is a chicken or the egg type thing.
Do I get panic and then bad tummy or do I have a bad tummy then anxiety.
So many studies are showing the brain and the bowels are linked more than we knew, so much so they are starting to call the intestines the second brain.
My mum suffered from ibs for years and years and I have always struggled since teenage years with issues, all my tests for thyroid, diabetes etc have come back clear for years.
So this long rambling post is basically me saying I have no idea but I think the gut and brain are so linked that an imbalance in one causes the other to mess up.
Also I am epileptic and on long term meds for it so...wtf knows
I went for a whole year with dizzy spells where the room would spin. i finally found a specialist and he cured me they were silent migraines. I couldn't feel any headache but that's what it was. I was cured after one week of taking migraine pills. May not be your problem but worth checking it out
If you can't go to the doctord for something try saint johns wort. It acts like an antidepressant but make sure you can take it if you are on other pills. and chamomile teas calms the stomach down.
Hello. I have all the symptoms you do and I hv a non threatening disease called Ménière's disease.
it begins with feeling a little dizzy which in turn causes nausea. For me it would escalate ti a full blown vertigo attack. The only way to stop the onset of this is to take mecalazine pills.
Tinnitus is one symptom of meneires which I had ringing and hear loss in my left ear for 5 years. It suddenly stopped and I regained my hearing.
For me the cause is motion or too much salt. So knowing that I can control it somewhat.
Good luck it's annoying but not deadly. They did a cat scan to rule out any brain tumor at first. They also did allergy tests of which I had none.
Truly I don't think they know of one single cause it's different for everyone.
Good luck
Sounds like meneires disease. Look it up.
Hi. I just discovered this thread because I was doing a search on the same topic. I, literally, just had the same thing happen to me and it has happened several times before. I was feeling fine, although my appetite has been weird off and on, but, I drank one of those equate chocolate nutritional shakes (kinda like chocolate milk). Right after that, I started feeling really nauseous. I ended up having to go to the bathroom(#2) and was feeling even more nauseous during that. After I was done, I took a motion sickness pill to help with the nausea and did some laps back and forth in the hall to relieve some anxiety. I've had this happen many times before. I am on meds for anxiety and I have a horrible fear of vomiting (emetophobia) so it's an awful feeling because the nausea causes anxiety and then the anxiety causes more nausea as well as getting really hot, sweats, racing hurt, etc. Just trying to figure out why that drink made me feel sick and why having to go to the bathroom causes anxiety and nausea sometimes. I can drink that shake other times and feel fine. Also, sometimes I can think about eating certain foods and it makes me feel nauseous...like eggs for example. Weird😕
Hi. Can you tell me if you ever had this issue diagnosed? I am having similar issues and my doctors have found nothing. I am just curious.
Thank you
Firstly thanks to everyone for their posts. It really is quite soothing to hear that so many people have virtually same thing as me.
FYI: I used to get severe panic attacks. I mean "call the ambulance I'm friggin dying". This happened to me after I put my self through hell. I say put myself because I think had a taken a different approach I would have been a lot better able to take on the issues at the time. The weirdest thing at first was accepting that the issues were not physical but only mental. That alone was a massive hurdle. Once I accepted that - I started training again and got myself into pristine physical condition. I was an animal - I ran 5kms every morning. Whether it was raining or not. Freezing or not (too crazy for some). Within 6 months I had lost my 20kgs of flab and 3 months after that I have a very defined 6 pack. I don't know if the anguish and pushing and effort that I put in is what made the anxiety go away - or if it was simply the fact that I was doing something positive for myself - but it went away. I went from feeling like I couldn't breathe and having heartbattacks to feeling like I was 18 and on top do the world. This was at 32 yo.
I'm now 35, landed a high pressure job, got engaged, bought a house, got married, had a few nagging issues and got a moderate case of vitiligo as a result which all caused me to put the weight on again and get the feelings people are describing above: random litttle episodes throughout the day, dizzy (usually before toilet but not always) feeling weak.
Trust me people - it's just deeper issues that have been left untreated. These make your body give you signs that stuff needs to change. It almost always is for the better.
I've started now again - 4 weeks in actually - to eat right and move around a lot more. Being outside (sun) and exercise gives you a lot of good chemicals and let's your body do a lot of the good things it might not get to do with its current lifestyle. Everything from going to the toilet properly to breathing comfortably. Sometimes even pushing through what you think is too hard - lets you build up trust with your body again.
Keep working at it people - I'm beginning my journey again- see you on the other side!!
Thank you for this! I suffer from vasovagal syncope related fainting spells\ seizures and anxiety. I've fainted from drying my hair, drinking diet soda, drinking ice tea, hitting my funny bone, and most lately from a kidney stone. Recently, I have started to experience dizziness, nausea, shaking, accompanied by anxiety before bowel movements. I've never associated these feelings with my vasovagal syncope experiences before! I'm still somewhat at a loss of what to do about it all but I think I need to work on improving my diet and include probiotics and digestive enzymes. Well see if starting to try to cure my gut helps. Thank you!