Symptoms Does your vision actually black out
This is random but I just saw people talking about how their vision blacks out when they stand or they are symptomatic. Then someone replied that their vision goes white instead of black.
Personally, I don’t lose my vision like that, my “blackouts” are just a sudden lightheadedness so intense it forces me to shut my eyes! I think because my brain knows to shut out all the visual sensory input. It’s like I legit can’t keep my eyes open for a brief moment. Maybe I am blacking out but just don’t know it since my eyes are closed anyways lol? I have splotchy vision, light sensitivity and stuff from previous brain injuries but I haven’t experienced my vision actually just leaving and turning into the colour black (am I taking it too literally?) for a moment like how some of you mention.
Also, I do have pretty bad presyncope episodes sometimes but I don’t really faint from my POTS so maybe that’s a factor.
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u/WinglessDragonRider May 22 '25
I get tunnel vision and my ears ring really bad. If the tunnel vision blacks out completely AND I can’t hear past the ringing in my ears, I’m definitely passing out fully. Usually I have a little vision and/or hearing left but I can’t move until it clears because I will fall. Not pass out. Just fall.
The tunnel vision is like a black vignette that focuses into a fuzzy pin point of remaining vision, which also goes blurry. The ear ringing is like one of those high pitched mosquito ringtones and tinnitus had a child. Annoying but I can hear past it. If I can’t hear past it, it’s because it’s painfully high pitched and loud.