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Unconscious Episodes

Unconscious episodes, alias syncopal episode, is a sudden loss of consciousness caused due to decreased blood flow to the brain. Reduced blood pressure, arrhythmia, standing for long durations, pregnancy, dehydration, exhaustion, etc., are the cause of syncopal episodes.

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What is the reason behind my mother-in-law's waist pain?

Query: Hi doctor,My mother-in-law is having difficulty in walking, climbing stairs, and sitting. She is having pain in her waist for the last month. She feels tired and helpless. She always wants to sleep. On some occasions, she becomes unconscious without any reason. When we checked her blood pressure, it...  Read Full »


Dr. Atul Prakash

Answer: Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. Sudden episodes of loss of consciousness and sleepiness sounds like a medical problem. We know that her blood sugar is normal, so are her other blood results (attachment removed to protect patient identity). She is in her early 50s. She is currently taking treatmen...  Read Full »

My wife gets unconscious when we argue. Kindly help.

Query: Hello doctor, My wife and I argue a few times, and every time we do, she goes into a depressed state. Her hands & legs get twisted, and she starts crying loudly if asked anything in between. She goes unconscious for a long time and then gets normal by morning. This occasionally happens when we a...  Read Full »


Dr. Vandana Patidar

Answer: Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. I read your query and can understand your concern. The state of unconsciousness is called a dissociative state. It is a kind of defense or a buffer system used by the mind to avoid unnecessary tension and stress, but it is not a healthy line of defense. As you alrea...  Read Full »

What are the side effects of taking Ashwagandha and Brahmi with Levetiracetam?

Query: Hi doctor, I was unconscious for 1 to 1.5 minutes, and my body temperature fell. I made a tight fist during unconsiousness. After that, I had a feeling of vomiting and acidity. At the age of two, I had a fever, and my face became white, and I took medications for 4.5 years. I take one tablet of Tor...  Read Full »


Dr. Hitesh Kumar

Answer: Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. There are side effects of every medicine (belonging to every pathies, either be allopathy, Ayurveda, homeopathy). Tablet Levetiracetam also has the own side effects profile, which may happen to a person and may not occur to another person. And every patient does not ge...  Read Full »

My 81-year-old relative has been diagnosed with SDH. Help.

Query: Hello doctor, Around 15 days back one of my known 81-year-old male got unconscious for hours. The doctors diagnosed him with FTP (Fetal type posterior Cerebral Artery) SDH (Sub Dural Hematoma) and they referred him to another hospital. He got operated there and the doctors said that the clot was rem...  Read Full »


Dr. Ghayur Abbas

Answer: Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. I have seen the scan showing SDH (subdural hematoma). I think it is better to follow the advice of treating doctors because they continuously see the patients and decide accordingly. These types of injuries usually take time to recover. So you have to wait. I do not fi...  Read Full »

Does losing consciousness for a minute pose a problem?

Query: Hello doctor, My mother felt dizzy and sweaty, eventually fainted for about a minute. She was not responding to anything and after that woke up to the sound of calling her. Her blood pressure reading shorty after was 99/55. She ate some stuff very little here and there and it went up to 107/64. I am...  Read Full »


Dr. Muhammad Zubayer Alam

Answer: Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. I can understand your concern. According to your statement, your mother has a history of dizziness, sweating, and fainting for a minute. The clinical features from which your mother was suffering may result from various underlying health conditions like low blood sugar...  Read Full »

What is the reason for frequent unconsciousness?

Query: Hello doctor, My wife, 26 years old, is facing some problem of senselessness. When she is feeling tension, become senseless near about one hour. Before few months, she became senseless 7 to 8 times in her life. But then, she fell down from staircase, became senseless for 1.50 hours. She gets pain a...  Read Full »


Dr. Prakashkumar P Bhatt

Answer: Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. She loses sense (consciousness) for 1 to 1.5 hours, and same thing happened for more than 20 times in the past few months. Probably she is suffering from some tension, it does not seem to be seizure or convulsion as it lasts for 1 to 1.5 hours and computed tomography ...  Read Full »

Please suggest a treatment option for subarachnoid hemorrhage.

Query: Hi doctor, My grandfather, who is 84 years, has been suffering from subarachnoid hemorrhage since 10 days. Also, he has been unconscious for the past 10 days. What are the possible circumstances and solutions in this case?  Read Full »


Dr. Hardik Nareshbhai Rajyaguru

Answer: Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. The problem is most likely because of bleeding from the weak spot in the brain blood vessel. Ideally, we should do an angiography after dye injection and find out the spot and secure it. But looking at his old age and unconsciousness, we do not advise it at this stage. Be...  Read Full »

Why does my father keep having unconcious episodes?

Query: Hi doctor, My father is 55 years old. He is good in terms of his health and weight. He recently had a large AVM (Arteriovenous Malformation) rupture and he was flown to the nearest hospital. He had a craniotomy to remove AVM and the ICH (Intracerebral brain hemorrhage) caused a large stroke. He was ...  Read Full »


Dr. Hardik Nareshbhai Rajyaguru

Answer: Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. When the cortical damage is widespread, the consciousness is impaired. Your father has come out from the deep unconsciousness, he is recovering now. During recovery, this sort of episodes are common and gradually the frequency of this episode would come down. Other factor...  Read Full »

After a cardiac arrest, my aunt became unconscious. How to proceed further?

Query: Hi doctor, My aunt had cardiac arrest 10 days ago. After a gap of 5 to 10 minutes, she has become unconscious. They put her on a ventilator. Till date, she is on a ventilator, and there is no recovery registered. Previously, she had two stents for breathing issues. Her magnetic resonance imaging (MR...  Read Full »


Dr. Hardik Nareshbhai Rajyaguru

Answer: Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. I understand the situation. At times, during cardiac arrest,if the brain does not get enough blood for a few minutes, then the brain gets damaged. Once damaged, then brain recovers only minimally. That is the reason why your doctors said no hope. I would like to know abo...  Read Full »

My husband fell out of the bed and his entire body was shaking. Was it a seizure?

Query: Hello doctor, My husband fell out of bed after sleeping for 4 hours and was unconscious. He recalls waking up and looking at the clock and seeing that it was 4 am and was confused about why he was awake, and he said the next thing he knew, he was on the floor. When I found him beside the bed, he was...  Read Full »


Dr. Hitesh Kumar

Answer: Hello, Welcome to icliniq.com. I would like to know details about the incident: 1) At what time did you find him on the floor? 2) Was he conscious and responding to your commands during full body shaking? 3) Was he continuously shaking for those 2 hours? Or was he shaking intermittently during ...  Read Full »

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