Passing out after 24+ hrs without food?
Discussion
I was quite busy on Saturday and I didn't eat breakfast or lunch. This is quite normal for me at a weekend as I never really feel hungry until the evening, and then we have a fairly big evening meal.
It just happened that we were also unexpectedly busy Saturday evening and coupled it not getting dark until late it was around 11 before we had organised some food. Before we ate I needed to get something from my car. Outside I suddenly felt a bit light headed so I sat on my low front garden wall.
I then went out like a light and fell backwards over the wall onto my drive! I was out for a few seconds, but when I came to I had a massive cold sweat and felt like s
t. There were no other symptoms. Luckily I don't seem to have injured myself in the fall. It could have been really nasty.
I went back inside and downed a glass of water, and ate a Mars bar to get some quick energy/ fluids in me. I felt fine after a about 10 minutes but it was quite concerning, especially as I'd just fallen backwards onto a concrete drive!
It then dawned on me the last time I had eaten was about 28 hours ago which can't be good. I also have high blood pressure which means I take an ACE Inhibitor to lower it. I took that late afternoon. Alcohol wise I'd had just two standard bottles of beer earlier in the evening which about half what I would normally drink on a Saturday night.
Is this something I should see my doctor about, or just chalk it up a single incident cause by me being stupid? If it happens again I'll certainly be seeing my doctor.
It just happened that we were also unexpectedly busy Saturday evening and coupled it not getting dark until late it was around 11 before we had organised some food. Before we ate I needed to get something from my car. Outside I suddenly felt a bit light headed so I sat on my low front garden wall.
I then went out like a light and fell backwards over the wall onto my drive! I was out for a few seconds, but when I came to I had a massive cold sweat and felt like s
t. There were no other symptoms. Luckily I don't seem to have injured myself in the fall. It could have been really nasty.I went back inside and downed a glass of water, and ate a Mars bar to get some quick energy/ fluids in me. I felt fine after a about 10 minutes but it was quite concerning, especially as I'd just fallen backwards onto a concrete drive!
It then dawned on me the last time I had eaten was about 28 hours ago which can't be good. I also have high blood pressure which means I take an ACE Inhibitor to lower it. I took that late afternoon. Alcohol wise I'd had just two standard bottles of beer earlier in the evening which about half what I would normally drink on a Saturday night.
Is this something I should see my doctor about, or just chalk it up a single incident cause by me being stupid? If it happens again I'll certainly be seeing my doctor.
I had a driving holiday recently. Ate at 6pm in a Folkestone hotel, headed for the tunnel in the morning and took an earlier crossing so boarded straight away. Did a long drive down through France stopping only for a bottle of water. Got to the next hotel, faffed about with some stuff for a couple of hours and crashed out. Got up running a little late, left immediately and drove across to Germany.
I parked up and walked into the town and started feeling very odd, fuzzy peripheral vision, hot flush and a bit wobbly. I sat on a bench and then it dawned on me that I'd had nothing to eat for 41 hours!
Like yourself, a quick ingestion of grub (there was a cafe 10 yards from where I was sitting) and I was right as rain.
I parked up and walked into the town and started feeling very odd, fuzzy peripheral vision, hot flush and a bit wobbly. I sat on a bench and then it dawned on me that I'd had nothing to eat for 41 hours!
Like yourself, a quick ingestion of grub (there was a cafe 10 yards from where I was sitting) and I was right as rain.
br d said:
I had a driving holiday recently. Ate at 6pm in a Folkestone hotel, headed for the tunnel in the morning and took an earlier crossing so boarded straight away. Did a long drive down through France stopping only for a bottle of water. Got to the next hotel, faffed about with some stuff for a couple of hours and crashed out. Got up running a little late, left immediately and drove across to Germany.
I parked up and walked into the town and started feeling very odd, fuzzy peripheral vision, hot flush and a bit wobbly. I sat on a bench and then it dawned on me that I'd had nothing to eat for 41 hours!
Like yourself, a quick ingestion of grub (there was a cafe 10 yards from where I was sitting) and I was right as rain.
I parked up and walked into the town and started feeling very odd, fuzzy peripheral vision, hot flush and a bit wobbly. I sat on a bench and then it dawned on me that I'd had nothing to eat for 41 hours!
Like yourself, a quick ingestion of grub (there was a cafe 10 yards from where I was sitting) and I was right as rain.
41 hours is NUTS. I've done 24 plenty of times - Yom Kippur - but not past that. Was the hunger not seriously distracting? FlyingMeeces said:
br d said:
I had a driving holiday recently. Ate at 6pm in a Folkestone hotel, headed for the tunnel in the morning and took an earlier crossing so boarded straight away. Did a long drive down through France stopping only for a bottle of water. Got to the next hotel, faffed about with some stuff for a couple of hours and crashed out. Got up running a little late, left immediately and drove across to Germany.
I parked up and walked into the town and started feeling very odd, fuzzy peripheral vision, hot flush and a bit wobbly. I sat on a bench and then it dawned on me that I'd had nothing to eat for 41 hours!
Like yourself, a quick ingestion of grub (there was a cafe 10 yards from where I was sitting) and I was right as rain.
I parked up and walked into the town and started feeling very odd, fuzzy peripheral vision, hot flush and a bit wobbly. I sat on a bench and then it dawned on me that I'd had nothing to eat for 41 hours!
Like yourself, a quick ingestion of grub (there was a cafe 10 yards from where I was sitting) and I was right as rain.
41 hours is NUTS. I've done 24 plenty of times - Yom Kippur - but not past that. Was the hunger not seriously distracting? I'm gnawing at my arm after 4 hours, let alone 41....
O/T
I lost a load of weight by water fasting from Sunday evening till Thursday evening. Nothing but water. I work full time too. Kept it up for three months and I can still go 48 without effort.
Insomnia was the difficult bit. After 48 hours I was full of energy and was restless at night.
I lost a load of weight by water fasting from Sunday evening till Thursday evening. Nothing but water. I work full time too. Kept it up for three months and I can still go 48 without effort.
Insomnia was the difficult bit. After 48 hours I was full of energy and was restless at night.
FlyingMeeces said:
br d said:
I had a driving holiday recently. Ate at 6pm in a Folkestone hotel, headed for the tunnel in the morning and took an earlier crossing so boarded straight away. Did a long drive down through France stopping only for a bottle of water. Got to the next hotel, faffed about with some stuff for a couple of hours and crashed out. Got up running a little late, left immediately and drove across to Germany.
I parked up and walked into the town and started feeling very odd, fuzzy peripheral vision, hot flush and a bit wobbly. I sat on a bench and then it dawned on me that I'd had nothing to eat for 41 hours!
Like yourself, a quick ingestion of grub (there was a cafe 10 yards from where I was sitting) and I was right as rain.
I parked up and walked into the town and started feeling very odd, fuzzy peripheral vision, hot flush and a bit wobbly. I sat on a bench and then it dawned on me that I'd had nothing to eat for 41 hours!
Like yourself, a quick ingestion of grub (there was a cafe 10 yards from where I was sitting) and I was right as rain.
41 hours is NUTS. I've done 24 plenty of times - Yom Kippur - but not past that. Was the hunger not seriously distracting? When I stopped at a services I wanted a sandwich but it's France and I'm a vegetarian, everything has meat. I didn't want to start eating crisps and chocolate so I thought I'd wait till the hotel.
When I got to the hotel I had a glass of coke at the bar and went to the room. I wasn't happy with the room - the aircon was banging every couple of minutes - so asked to be moved. Organising that was a faff and then I had to catch up on a load of work emails and because of the long, tiring drive down I just crashed out.
I was supposed to be staying in that hotel for 2 nights but had decided I wanted to move on (the aircon in the second room was just as noisy) so I just grabbed my stuff and headed out as soon as I got up. At that point I had completely forgotten that I hadn't eaten, the weather was sweltering and I just wanted to be on the road. It was about 11am in Baden Baden when I realised.
Something that probably helps is that I leave for work at about 5am, I'll have toast about 6am and then if I am manic I will often go straight through the day without eating, only having something at 6 or 7 in the evening so I'm pretty used to long periods without food.
hondafanatic said:
O/T
I lost a load of weight by water fasting from Sunday evening till Thursday evening. Nothing but water. I work full time too. Kept it up for three months and I can still go 48 without effort.
Insomnia was the difficult bit. After 48 hours I was full of energy and was restless at night.
Without medical supervision that is an extermely stupid thing to do and shouldn't be recommended to anyone, potentially fatal.I lost a load of weight by water fasting from Sunday evening till Thursday evening. Nothing but water. I work full time too. Kept it up for three months and I can still go 48 without effort.
Insomnia was the difficult bit. After 48 hours I was full of energy and was restless at night.
br d said:
FlyingMeeces said:
br d said:
I had a driving holiday recently. Ate at 6pm in a Folkestone hotel, headed for the tunnel in the morning and took an earlier crossing so boarded straight away. Did a long drive down through France stopping only for a bottle of water. Got to the next hotel, faffed about with some stuff for a couple of hours and crashed out. Got up running a little late, left immediately and drove across to Germany.
I parked up and walked into the town and started feeling very odd, fuzzy peripheral vision, hot flush and a bit wobbly. I sat on a bench and then it dawned on me that I'd had nothing to eat for 41 hours!
Like yourself, a quick ingestion of grub (there was a cafe 10 yards from where I was sitting) and I was right as rain.
I parked up and walked into the town and started feeling very odd, fuzzy peripheral vision, hot flush and a bit wobbly. I sat on a bench and then it dawned on me that I'd had nothing to eat for 41 hours!
Like yourself, a quick ingestion of grub (there was a cafe 10 yards from where I was sitting) and I was right as rain.
41 hours is NUTS. I've done 24 plenty of times - Yom Kippur - but not past that. Was the hunger not seriously distracting? When I stopped at a services I wanted a sandwich but it's France and I'm a vegetarian, everything has meat. I didn't want to start eating crisps and chocolate so I thought I'd wait till the hotel.
When I got to the hotel I had a glass of coke at the bar and went to the room. I wasn't happy with the room - the aircon was banging every couple of minutes - so asked to be moved. Organising that was a faff and then I had to catch up on a load of work emails and because of the long, tiring drive down I just crashed out.
I was supposed to be staying in that hotel for 2 nights but had decided I wanted to move on (the aircon in the second room was just as noisy) so I just grabbed my stuff and headed out as soon as I got up. At that point I had completely forgotten that I hadn't eaten, the weather was sweltering and I just wanted to be on the road. It was about 11am in Baden Baden when I realised.
Something that probably helps is that I leave for work at about 5am, I'll have toast about 6am and then if I am manic I will often go straight through the day without eating, only having something at 6 or 7 in the evening so I'm pretty used to long periods without food.
I feel your pain on the veggie/France issue though. My adolescence was basically a slow motion tour via youth orchestra of Bad Places To Be Vegetarian: rural Suffolk, rural Belgium, Toulouse, proper remote middle of nowhere southern Spain, the Rheinland, South Africa, and a no-seriously-nobody-speaks-English industrial dormitory town about four hours south of Tokyo.
France tho: supermarket, cheese, bread. Gave up on restaurants really quickly. "Yes, ratatouille is a vegetable dish, it is vegetarian." "This ratatouille has pieces of ham in it." "Yes, but it is a vegetable dish. It is vegetarian!". (Cue a lot of really unhappy vegetarian and/or Jewish teenagers…) Things picked up when we discovered that you can buy a non-mini Babybe, (just a Bel?), which really is a big version of the Baby Bel and pretty flippin' delicious on torn up chunks of freshly baked bread.
The Spruce goose said:
hondafanatic said:
O/T
I lost a load of weight by water fasting from Sunday evening till Thursday evening. Nothing but water. I work full time too. Kept it up for three months and I can still go 48 without effort.
Insomnia was the difficult bit. After 48 hours I was full of energy and was restless at night.
Without medical supervision that is an extermely stupid thing to do and shouldn't be recommended to anyone, potentially fatal.I lost a load of weight by water fasting from Sunday evening till Thursday evening. Nothing but water. I work full time too. Kept it up for three months and I can still go 48 without effort.
Insomnia was the difficult bit. After 48 hours I was full of energy and was restless at night.
Muzzer79 said:
FlyingMeeces said:
br d said:
I had a driving holiday recently. Ate at 6pm in a Folkestone hotel, headed for the tunnel in the morning and took an earlier crossing so boarded straight away. Did a long drive down through France stopping only for a bottle of water. Got to the next hotel, faffed about with some stuff for a couple of hours and crashed out. Got up running a little late, left immediately and drove across to Germany.
I parked up and walked into the town and started feeling very odd, fuzzy peripheral vision, hot flush and a bit wobbly. I sat on a bench and then it dawned on me that I'd had nothing to eat for 41 hours!
Like yourself, a quick ingestion of grub (there was a cafe 10 yards from where I was sitting) and I was right as rain.
I parked up and walked into the town and started feeling very odd, fuzzy peripheral vision, hot flush and a bit wobbly. I sat on a bench and then it dawned on me that I'd had nothing to eat for 41 hours!
Like yourself, a quick ingestion of grub (there was a cafe 10 yards from where I was sitting) and I was right as rain.
41 hours is NUTS. I've done 24 plenty of times - Yom Kippur - but not past that. Was the hunger not seriously distracting? I'm gnawing at my arm after 4 hours, let alone 41....
It was only when I collapsed that I decided I had better eat.
Muzzer79 said:
I struggle to believe that anyone can go for nearly two days without any food at all and not feel hungry....
I'm gnawing at my arm after 4 hours, let alone 41....
Its easy I could do 48hrs on just coffee when I was doing an impression of a blue arsed fly.I'm gnawing at my arm after 4 hours, let alone 41....
Now I stop and force myself to eat even if not hungry as its so easy to do.
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