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What I do have, though, is "episodes." That's what my doctor calls them! He and I are friends and he had been having a hard time grasping what was going on with me 'til last July when we were at a party together. I know now that I was too tired, got too hot, and had eaten too many fatty foods (didn't know about that stuff at the time!), and I got really dizzy, very disoriented, very nauseous, very cold-sweaty. He made me lie down (everyone thought I was trashed, but I hadn't had a lick!) and checked my blood pressure, heart rate, etc... Within a half an hour I was running to the bathroom with D. I was sick for a week. Now I know that when I get that woozy, disoriented, nauseous, cold-sweaty feeling, I need to take my meds and get to bed, ASAP! (I also stay out of over-heated situations. That's a huge trigger for me. But that's neither here nor there, is it...?)

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Ooh, ooh, me too! I used to have horrid nauseous swooning feelings on nearly every warmish day (and I've lived in the US Midwest for nearly all my life so this was not infrequent). And yeah, there was D too, although being mainly C, I sometimes saw this as a benefit. In grad school (when I lived in an un-airconditioned apartment), my summer "episodes" got bad enough that I was staying home and in bed for several days each summer month.

I ended up seeing several different docs at the school clinic, and one asked me right away whether I was restricting my salt intake. I said I was - ya know, trying to be healthy and all - and he said to stop it. Turns out that drinking more and more water was just making me feel sicker, when I really needed to get some salt in me.

Now, I go straight for the Gatorade when I start feeling woozy when it's warm, and try to get some salty stuff in my diet like pretzels and pickles. Don't know if it will work for anyone else, but it's been a miracle cure for me. Nothing like a medicinal bag of BBQ potato chips (baked, of course) to perk up your day!

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