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DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am a 23-year-old woman who runs at least two marathons every year. My times are pretty good. I once ran one in three hours and 15 minutes. I run year-round, but in the winter I have to use an indoor track. After my last run, I felt like I was about to faint. It took three minutes for the feeling to go away. Does this mean anything? - T.N.
ANSWER: A faint is a sudden, short loss of consciousness from which a person recovers without any special intervention. A near- faint means a person didn't lose consciousness but experienced the signals that usually appear before a faint - dizziness, sweating and nausea.See the full content of this document
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Running Brings Her Close to Fainting
I am going to talk about fainting, but the remarks apply to near- fainting too.
Sometimes during but more ...See the full content of this document
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