http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018895652This is why I browse the DUmp. The notion that they can somehow prop up their sickly candidate by regurgitating stupid stories like this inside of an echo chamber is both hilarious and intriguing. If you lived exclusively at the DUmp, you'd think there is a fainting epidemic sweeping the country. Be prepared for a surprise, then. Keep reading to discover that this really IS an EPIDEMIC, the likes that a DUmp denizen has never seen the likes of. Oh, LAWDY!!
Mon Sep 19, 2016, 10:37 PM
LeftInTX (3,390 posts)
I've got bronchitis and for several days, I felt like fainting
Until the meds kicked in, I felt like fainting every time I got up. It was just awful.
I don't know how Hillary even managed to attend the 9/11 event and not totally collapse.
I've got a pretty nasty sudden strain of this stuff. Ironically it came on a few days after 9/11. I kept wondering if I was getting some "weird Hillary sympathy syndrome". My husband dragged me to the doc on Saturday and the doc could hear it in my lungs right away. He thought maybe it was pneumonia but it was just bronchitis. I'm getting the treatment: steroids, antibiotics and albutirol inhaler.
I've had bronchitis and pneumonia many times, but this is the first time that it constantly made me feel like fainting.
Oh well, thought I would share because it shows that Hillary is quite a trooper!!
And on to the rest of the Fainting DUmmies who queue up to share their stories of exasperating fainting tribulation:
Mon Sep 19, 2016, 10:43 PM
Star Member csziggy (21,028 posts)
1. I'm getting over a bad cold with no lung congestion
But Friday when I went shopping I got so lightheaded I had to cut my shopping short. I honestly thought I could pass out, was seeing spots in front of my eyes and blackness at the edges of my vision.
My husband took me to a restaurant where we sat down, drank a bunch of water, had a nice dinner and rested for a while. Instead of doing the other things we had planned one, we came home and I took a three hour nap.
Hope you feel better soon!
Mon Sep 19, 2016, 11:05 PM
LeftInTX (3,390 posts)
5. It also seems an unlikely time of year for this stuff...
At least for me. I'm in South Texas and if I catch anything, it's almost always Nov-Feb.
Hope your cold goes away soon.
Shut up, you!!! Where is MIRT??? We've got a doubter over here!
Mon Sep 19, 2016, 10:52 PM
Star Member The Velveteen Ocelot (46,059 posts)
2. Had a terrible case of bronchitis a couple years ago,
and ended up hauling myself to urgent care because I was so dizzy and had trouble breathing; I felt like absolute crap for weeks. So I have to hand it to Hillary for trying to keep her busy schedule. I don't think I could have done it.
Mon Sep 19, 2016, 10:57 PM
LeftInTX (3,390 posts)
3. I probably would have collapsed just walking up to the memorial
Mon Sep 19, 2016, 11:01 PM
Star Member progressoid (38,464 posts)
4. Yep.
Been fighting something for almost two weeks now. It ain't fun.
Get off the floor, DUmmie. You don't know how to play this game. You don't
actually have to faint to be a part of the crowd.
Tue Sep 20, 2016, 12:12 AM
Star Member Laffy Kat (3,391 posts)
7. If that continues I'd have your O2 sat. checked.
You may need some supplemental for a few days. Take it easy. Your body needs you to rest.
Tue Sep 20, 2016, 10:59 AM
LeftInTX (3,390 posts)
11. They checked the O2 sat. in the office.
I didn't ask what it was. But, I was kinda wondering about that.
I think it is ironic that Hillary has a common infection, she bravely goes to an event, she stumbles, the world makes it seem like it is the most awful thing. I hope most voters will realize that feeling faint is a side effect of a common infection.
What about coughing for months on end? Testing for neurological problems with an undercover nurse? All part of the common infection, too?
And here we are with a DUmmie concluding that the fainting really IS an epidemic. No, really:
Tue Sep 20, 2016, 02:16 AM
DebJ (7,699 posts)
8. I had the same thought about Hillary. Some nasty virus is going around like crazy.
My Dad and sister in NC spent the entire month of August fighting it off.
My son and his girlfriend (much younger) were sick for two weeks in August.
My husband returned to teaching the August 22, and by August 30 was feeling really lightheaded, nauseous and sick, and he NEVER gets sick. Ended up barely moving for a week, and he STILL has a runny nose and chest congestion.
It hit me with a sore throat on 9/4 and 9/5, then massive head congestion that NOTHING would relieve, so no sleep, gradually worked its way to my chest. From the 7th thru the 18th, just walking from one end of the house to the other (a very small 1200 sq ft rancher) was enough to make me collapse and need to lie down. It's like a perpetual flu without the aching-to-the-bone feeling, completely limp. I do have asthma, but this is the first time since being diagnosed with that 15 years ago that I've had difficulties at all. This Wednesday will be my third visit to the doctor. Saturday, 11 days in to being a waste of space, I got an antibiotic and am finally recovering, but still not up to full power; maybe at 40%.
Everyone in my doctor's office had it as of 9/6, even my doctor.
It began to feel like I'd never improve; like this was a perpetual war between the virus and my body, a stalemate, and neither could win out. Never experienced anything like this in almost 61 years.
At the DU right now:
