A funny thing happened to me on the way to work this morning…. September 1, 2006
Posted by Mick in Diary.trackback
….I was on the train this morning.
Doing nothing out of the ordinary. Reading the City News (street press) and listening to Stone Temple Pilots on my iPod, when I started to feel a little light-headed and dizzy.
I hadn’t had breakfast, but I usually don’t and I had eaten pretty well the day before. (big stir-fry dinner!)
I was reading one second,at Judiciary Square station, and then suddenly my sight started to go funny and the music in my ears seemed to get faint and I just couldn’t focus on anything. It was like the world was spinning around and there was crackling and fuzz in my ears. I remember I was staring straight ahead…trying to focus, but it wasn’t doing anything. And then at some time after stopping at the Chinatown station, my eyes started to clear up and my hearing returned.
I looked down at what was in my hand, but it was just the outside of the newspaper. The rest of it seemed to have flown down onto the floor at the feet of the lady in front of me.
Her and the man opposite me were looking at me strangely and she said, “Are you ok? You don’t look so good.”
She was right. My head felt light, my ears were ringing and I was sweating like a bastard.
“I…don’t know. What happened?”
“You scared me.”, she said, “You were just started staring into space. It looked like you had a seizure”
So. Did I? I felt like shit. I got off at the next stop (which happened to be work) and tried to gather my thoughts.
It was a strange sensation. It was like a little explosion had gone off in my head and I couldn’t focus or acknowledge anything. It probably only last 30 seconds or so.
After a couple of hours at work I felt human again, but I am intrigued as to what happened.
Yes, I should go to a doctor, and if it happens again I most definitely will, but I did a little research of my own.
It could have been a Simple Partial Seizure.
The scary thing is that every reference to that, is on an Epliepsy website. I don’t know what the hell it was, and it does freak me out a little.
Anyone else ever experienced anything like this?
America....Bloody Oath. 
I had issues in college with something maybe kinda similar. It was chalked up to low blood sugars. I never was in the middle of a big city and all scary-fied like you though!!
well if im correct – i think judiciary square is underground (on the metro). each time i used to ride the metro in DC, about the time I’d come above ground, to the last few stops to vienna, id have a similar feeling. but i would get so queasy, I would swear that I would get right sick on the train right there. I would get really out of sorts, forget where i was, start gripping onto things. Lots of people thought I would need a doctor (I was never drunk or hungover either). Usually about 10-20 mins later I’d feel fine. I never saw a doctor, but thought it had something to do with the metro and making me feel out of sorts from going to vast darkness underground to concentrating on everything around me. No clue. Never experienced it on the NYC subway. Of course – we’ll never know, and I dont plan on making the trip on metro again. I hate the damn thing.
u r fake
I had a bit of a dizzy moment just like that a few weeks back at work. It happened mid-afternoon as I was going to get some lunch. I hadn’t eaten (except for maybe a cup of tea or two) and felt so much better about a half-hour after I had.
My vote is for low blood sugar.
Mick, I had what sounds like similar experiences from time to time after about a year of living in DC (and much less, but occasionally, since). Dizzy spells, anxiety/nausea/panic for no reason at all, elevated heart rate, sweaty body and clammy hands.
http://cyzilla.blogspot.com/2004/06/dizzy-zillespie.html
It was eventually more or less diagnosed as ‘anxiety attacks’, the likelihood of occurrence I put down to the level of crap in the american food chain (lots of aspartame, hydrogenated corn syrup, etc).
[…] My unknown dizzy spells from last year […]
I have had these often. Usually it is when I’m trying to lose weight and skip a few meals but I’m sure it’s not low blood sugar. It’s like I’m trying to remember something and can’t and while my mind it trying to remember something it feels like what i’m trying to remember has happened before in the same place where I am feeling dizzy. I start to feel dizzy, feel like I’m going to pass out, get hot and sweaty and if I distract myself from those thoughts it sometimes goes away and other times it lasts for a while and if I lay down for a few minutes I’m okay. This may happen off and on for an hour or two and then it goes away completely. I used to have this happen a lot but now it is rare. I think it has something to do with a repressed memory or maybe it’s just an anxiety attack but I am normally a calm person that doesn’t feel anxious.
It wouldn’t be low blood sugars…
I’m a Type 1 diabetic and you’re hearing can’t suddenly go fuzzy and faint when you’re low…you’d have to have that dizzy weak feeling for at least 10 minutes or so…so nope, not your blood sugars
Maybe it was a mini seizure???? Dunno
o vazi la!!
ive had that i got it really bad after an injury but my leg started twitching aswell
ALWAYS EAT YOUR BREAKFAST or you going to have this experience, which is called the BLACKOUT. Also, bring some candy with ya. =)
it is lie!!!!…. it never happenz……!!u all r fake nd only wasting timee…..~!!!!!!!!!:(
The same thing happened to me a couple yrs ago at work. I was working and all the sudden i woke up on the floor.
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