My NCS Introduction

Hello! Welcome to my blog! My name is Natalie and I'm 28 with a 4 years old. I am originally from Central Arkansas, but currently reside in Fort Smith, Arkansas. I decided to create this blog to shine some light on NCS and how it effects me. I hope that in the process this blog will help someone else! I found out that I had NCS at age 24 after years of fainting without warning. My NCS is a bit funny, though because I will faint sitting down as well. A lot of people faint standing up or walking, but not me. The first time I fainted was when I was 19 and I was standing near my car as my brother worked on my car. When I passed out I remember being able to see everything that was happening! It is really confusing and scary when you can see yourself faint and fall straight to the ground and not be able to stop yourself or protect your head from hitting a rock or tree. As soon as I fainted, it didn't take me long to want to get back up, but as anyone would be my brother was freaking out and wasn't letting me up until my mom took me to the hospital. At the hospital, I was examined and everything. CAT Scan, MRIs and all type of tests were done, but nothing showed up and I was sent home to "rest." I used to get upset and assume they were being jerks and jerking me around until my 5th episode in under 2 years. I kept fainting and it started to scare me. I did some research and decided to seek help. After visiting my PCP at the time, I was "prescribed" a live-in aide because by this point, I have had my daughter and she was not even 2 years old. She couldn't help herself if needed. I was feeling bad...really awful! This was the only thing good my PCP did for me. I eventually had to move to Little Rock to get a diagnosis after wearing a monitor for an entire month. While wearing it, I fainted twice and finally had proof. Two weeks later, I had a diagnosis and I started my journey...and was disabled! :(