more a biology question, but wanted to post anon for obvious reasons

Cut a long story short, last night i was in real need of a piss but i tripped and fell over backwards and whacked my head on the wall something cronic... I wasn't concussed but i let off an involuntary cry, felt dizzy and errrr how do I say this.......... pissed myself. I wasn't drunk - i hadnt had anything to drink - and after i got my bearings i started thinking did i like temporarily paralise myself or do i just have a crap bladder??

Reply 1

tinkerbellejess

13

It was probably the shock of hitting your head, or maybe you knocked the area of the brain that deals with that?

Reply 2

Phantom Phoenix

13

Ouch. Maybe you were a bit dazed or something? If it hasn't happened before I doubt you have a crap bladder :smile:

Reply 3

grace

15

well you said you were busting to go, obviously hitting your head shocked you into not holding on so hard and, well, nature took its course. Hope you cleaned up afterwards.

Reply 4

Anonymous #1

OP

grace

well you said you were busting to go, obviously hitting your head shocked you into not holding on so hard and, well, nature took its course. Hope you cleaned up afterwards.

Thankfully my thick Levis absorbed it all :biggrin:

Reply 5

ashy

17

Anonymous

Thankfully my thick Levis absorbed it all :biggrin:

there's an advertising campaign Levis never thought of....

Reply 6

Abra

14

ashy

there's an advertising campaign Levis never thought of....

Reply 7

danesh

OK you have exaclty what I have.

You had a micturition Syncope:

This is where you wake up from a warm bed at night. As your blood pressure is low, when you start to urinate a reflex demands more from the heart. Because of low blood pressure you pass out. When you wake up you feel sweaty.

In future sit down on the toilet at night as you will not pass out!

Reply 8

Sarky

18

danesh

OK you have exaclty what I have.

You had a micturition Syncope:

This is where you wake up from a warm bed at night. As your blood pressure is low, when you start to urinate a reflex demands more from the heart. Because of low blood pressure you pass out. When you wake up you feel sweaty.

In future sit down on the toilet at night as you will not pass out!

Why are you diagnosing him? He said he tripped...not fainted.

And of course you know for certain thats what he had?

Reply 9

ashy

17

danesh

OK you have exaclty what I have.

You had a micturition Syncope:

This is where you wake up from a warm bed at night. As your blood pressure is low, when you start to urinate a reflex demands more from the heart. Because of low blood pressure you pass out. When you wake up you feel sweaty.

In future sit down on the toilet at night as you will not pass out!

How can that have happened if the OP tripped and hit their head?! Read the post properly before you answer next time! :p:

Reply 10

danesh

oops! :P

Reply 11

Spacecam

15

To the OP:

Those are symptoms of epilepsy. If you were aware you did this then its not too bad. If you smacked your head something evil on a hard surface, theres a good chance the signals in the brain were disrupted for long enough to cause a temporary problem.

If it happens again then get to a GPs sharpish, but atm it sounds like you've smacked your head and forgot you needed a piss because it hurt that much!

Reply 12

Anonymous #1

OP

Spacecam

To the OP:

Those are symptoms of epilepsy.

well the tripping was a cause of my physical disability [nope, it isn't bladder-related] and my bad room-keeping. So, ta for the concern, but i doubt its epilepsy

Reply 13

Anonymous #2

Spacecam

Those are symptoms of epilepsy.

I am a qualified first aider, and I would expect a very different account of the events if epilepsy were involved.

Reply 14

Gman1617

hey mate disgarde everything you've heard so far on this thread cos its completely wrong. i don't no what danesh was writing about or any of the rest.

Anyway you were busting to go toilet so you were actively holding it in, even if you weren't your bladder was still full and was being held shut.

When you hit your head and fell i can imagen the pain of your head bouncing off the wall took up your whole attention. There for you let go and your bladder openned. Even if you weren't activeely holding it in the pain from your head was enough to make you relax your lower half of your body.

Look at it this way if you saw something so horrifing so scary so terrible and you were bursting to go you would wet your self. It happens to grown men and women.

What happened to you isn't uncommon its natural. Theres probly some evolutionary explanation to explain it like.

Fight or flight the pain or fear causes the release of the bladder along with other physiological changes

Reply 15

danesh

yeah, I read the thread wrong!!

Sorry :P

Reply 16

ashy

17

many thanks for the rep OP :smile:

, hope your Levis recover as swiftly as you!

more a biology question, but wanted to post anon for obvious reasons

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