Well today I went to the doctor about my pregnancy, ultra sounds, and of course the dreaded blood work. I am deathly terrified of needles, and this has only been the second time in my life ever getting blood drawn from me, other than a finger prick.

We get in there and I sit down and got past the worst part, the needle, and things went smoothly. My blood runs very fast so the whole process went by quick.

Now the bad part... I had 8 tubes of blood taken today. After all was said and done I felt very hot and my ears started ringing, then I noticed the blue and black spots in my eyes. I’m used to this feeling as I have common occurrences with almost passing out when getting too hot, but this time I passed out completely.

The phlebotomist went to get juice for me to drink and after she left my boyfriend said I laid my head down and that’s all I remember.

From what he told me I slowly sat up, my hair fell in my face, my glasses fell down my nose, and then my head starting shaking as if my muscles were spasming. (He has experience with dealing with seizures because his dad goes through them, and he honestly though I was going into a seizure just from looking at my body activity). My boyfriend said at that point my leg went from being limp and bent to stiff and straight and I kicked my flip flop off at him. The woman grabbed me to make sure I didn’t hurt myself and around that time I remember smelling something awful (that darn ammonia stick...). I don’t remember what I did but my boyfriend told me I gave them most evil look ever, like I looked over the rim of my glasses at them and then all of a sudden I sat straight up and said “I’m good!”

Today was a crazy day, and also very emotional for me as I’ve never passed out before. I was scared. It felt like I went to sleep and was dreaming and hearing voices. It’s crazy that I felt like I was only gone for about two seconds, when he said it was more like five minutes.

Anyone else had this happen? I love hearing others’ experiences with these things.