They really have no clue why I have fainting issues.  I have only lost consciousness once, and that was enough. I completely passed out and woke up with a huge lump and bruise on my forehead from having hit my head on something, and  a very broken foot!  I am able to catch myself during the pre state of fainting where you get the greying of vision, seeing stars and dull sound or ringing in your ears. However, when I get those symptoms I have to sit down or flop over something or I will go down!  So I've fallen more times than I care to count from my haste to get out of the shower to flop over the vanity, or to rush to a table or something. It's a scarey, scarey thing.

And these fainting episodes don't have any rhyme or reason to them either. They can happen when I'm sitting, standing, just getting up, laying down or walking.

They have ruled out my heart.  My blood pressure is fine, well, fine for me. They did put me on blood pressure pills a few years ago because it was dangerously high, but for some reason last year it seemed to "fix" itself and after they played around with dosages they finally took me off of them thinking that my blood pressure was crashing at times. But a year later and I still get these fainting episodes, so they are stumped.

I do tend towards anemia but the last blood work showed my hemaglobin to be right where it should be, completely normal. I take iron pills during "girly times",  hehe

The exercises they have me doing is basically based on Stott Pilates I think. At least there is a chair exercise and standing exercise video that they recommended to me for "Stott Pilates". I don't have those yet, but I think my program is based on that.   I'm in the easy level :)   It includes various stretches for all portions of my body, light hand weights and bands. These activities are varied between sitting and standing because I can't stand for prolonged periods of time due to fainting and also back fatigue. I also do some cardio on the treadmill. I absolutely love the treadmill! I do between 10 and 20 minutes depending on how my foot is feeling (the one I broke when I passed out still gives me grief sometimes). And if I feel well enough I do a second time on the treadmill. On Wednesday I managed to do 20 minutes once and later another 18 minutes. Granted I have to stop and take breather and flop over breaks, but that is the total time of actually doing the treadmill.

The stretches and weights etc take me about 90 minutes or so to do because for each stretch I do I have to hold it for 15 seconds. I do the stretches at the start.  Then the strengthening. Then another set of stretches. Then the cardio.   I get the additional cardio in by arriving early, hehe

Each week I get evaluated. So tomorrow when I go I am evaluated to see how the program is working for me and if I need to be advanced up with more or kept at the same level or some things modified.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi