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Searching for the Causes of Syncope - The Next Chapter?

On June 6th, 2018, at about 9:50 am, I passed out again ( See here for the back story ). I was talking to Peter, telling him about a party he had been invited to attend when I felt it coming on. I managed to get to the sofa and sit down before I lost consciousness. I awoke from a dream and sat up on the couch to find both Peter and Joshua looking at me with concern. Hannah was at home, and after a minute or two of confused thought, I asked her to take me to the hospital. At the hospital, I struggled to remember my birth date and other information, but it came slowly. The doctors took blood and did an EKG, and a couple hours later sent me home (the fuzziness in my brain cleared up after about an hour) with a referral to a neurologist this time - they said the stress on my body wasn't consistent with what it would be if it had been a cardiac event (heart related), and the doctor was throwing around words like "absence seizure" and "narcolepsy". I've been see