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A couple of times my brother has had that " I got up to quickly" sensation while driving.
Obviously he's given up driving until diagnosed and is being checked out.
It only happens when he is in his works car. He doesn't carry any smelly stuff so I'm thinking it could be driving position related or car seat fumes.
In February he drove his motor home to the Alps with no problems.
Anyone know of anyone who has suffered with this?
That's a worry and credit to him for packing in driving for now.
Bit of lateral thinking, but does he have much job-related stress? Just thinking 'cos you said it's only in his work car.
Stress generally makes you wired rather than tired...
Is he on any medication?
Though if only the works car, get it checked for exhaust leaks, potentially getting into the car.
Alternatively if could be something affected by work.
I had a "get up too quickly" kind of sensation while driving home from work. Didn't pass out but felt very light headed suddenly and heart went into pounding mode for 24 hours. Ended up at A&E with heart palpitations and they couldn't find anything wrong. Ultimately doctor have me beta blockers and that knocked the pounding on the head, and then thought about triggers and concluded the big pile of triple shot coffees on the desk at work might have had something to do with it.
Though I'm still not sure about that. I've had similar a couple of times since (not driving) and I've cut the coffee down a lot. I sometimes think it's a sudden drop in blood pressure for some reason. Still, tests at the doc's doesn't come up with anything.
Though there's some anxiety crap mixed in with all this too (the incident when driving was while I was getting some chest aches, possibly from the coffee or maybe stress, and I jokingly thought to myself what would I do if I had a heart attack while driving and then *bam* this happened, so maybe a mental trigger).
Could be a variety of things. I suppose (pre)syncope, especially if he doesn't lose consciousness fully, could be caused by blood pooling in the legs. Other issues can cause temporary alteration of consciousness - anything from labyrinthitis to temporal lobe epilepsy.
Work car - stress (or even different clothing)? May explain why he gets it there and not elsewhere.
Either way, he's doing the right thing by not driving until he's got checked out properly. He may need to inform DVLA.
Anyone know of anyone who has suffered with this?
Not wanting to be the harbinger of bad news but one of our neighbours used to drive commercial vehicles until he passed out behind the wheel and caused an accident.
Sadly it was a brain tumour and despite treatment he died a couple of years later.
Does he eat properly when at work? Could be simple as low blood sugar.
<span class="Y0NH2b CLPzrc">Labyrinthitis? I had similar feelings driving down the M1, not a nice feeling!
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Is the work car fairly new or something he's had a while? If new there could be something in the seating position that is trapping or restricting flow of some kind of bodily function (clearly I'm not a doctor).
Seating position, shoulders or legs or base of spine all have issues, so too trapped nerves..