Occult bleeding or internal bleeding?"A more serious cause of lightheadedness is bleeding. Most of the time, the location of the bleeding and the need to seek medical care are obvious. However, sometimes bleeding is not obvious (occult bleeding). You may have small amounts of bleeding in your digestive tract over days or weeks without noticing the bleeding. When this happens, lightheadedness and fatigue may be the first noticeable symptoms that you are losing blood. Heavy menstrual bleeding also can cause this type of lightheadedness."
Taken from http://health.yahoo.com/nervous-symptoms/dizziness-lightheadedness-and-vertigo/healthwise--dizzi.html
I have been feeling really light-headed/Like im going to pass out for the last week and 1 day now. I went to the hospital on the 3rd day, they did blood work and an ECG and said they couldn't find anything wrong. I went to a walk-in clinic last saturday. The dr. said that it might be vertigo and gave me some novo-betahistine which has not been working.
I have a Dr. appointment scheduled for this thursday.
I am worried that maybe I have this "occult bleeding" or whatever. Shouldn't I be seeing signs of bleeding such as bloody stools, if its in my digestive tract?
Posted by sokokl
Not necessarily. What I mean by that is that the bleeding may stay very light for a time before it gets heavy enough to see in the stool.
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