Question: I have abdominal pain and my blood pressure drops. A few times I have passed out, but most of the time I am on the floor in a dream like state. Recently I have lost control of my bowels. I have been told is it a vasalvagus response to pain. Sometimes the response triggers the abdominal pain with no cause for the adominal pain. I sweat, cold, weakness and extreme lower adominal pain. I know any type of laxative can trigger the reacation as well as waking suddenly in the middle of the night. No luck with my nuerologist who just told me I was not having seizures. I also had a severe spell years ago when I had an IUD inserted. As I age it is getting harder to bounce back from these spells and they can be very embarassing also. My colonoscopy was normal. I am 60 years old and the attacks seems to be coming more often now. I have also seen a heart specialist years ago and passed the tilt test and heart monitor test. I ate vegetables with olive oil last week and I think the olive oil may have worked like a laxitive and I had multiple bowel movements and extreme pain and low blood pressure again. I layed on the bathroom floor at work until it passed. I do not have vomit, but not always. I actually passed out cold driving, but my husband was able to stop the car. I then proceeded to have to empty my bowels in the car - very sad. There was not previous warning that I was going to have this problem. I am getting ready to fly on a plane and I am in a panic that it might happen on the plane.

I don't know where to go from here.