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Originally Posted by Janet
All that work wore me out, don't know if it's old age or being to overweight. I had a hard time taking a big deep breath and when I would look up things went black but then came right back. It made me very light headed.
Once we got home and things unloaded I fell asleep in the recliner. When I woke up I took a shower and then took another nap in the recliner and feel as though I could take another...lol.
I'm pretty much done for the day...I think.
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Finding it hard to take a deep breath is probably from being out of shape - and how many years did you smoke? There may be a bit of residual damage from that.
Seeing black when you look up is because you are restricting the carotid artery in your neck. This is the artery (well there are actually two arteries, one on each side of the neck) that take oxygenated blood to your brain. When you look up and twist your neck a bit, it can compromise the carotid artery, thus, decreasing the blood flow to the brain and viola! you see black. Remember last fall when Gary went to Colorado and couldn't see the elk well enough to shoot them? It is the same principle, he wasn't getting enough oxygen to his eyes because of his lung problems and his heart failure, so everything was brown. In your case your eyes were even more oxygen deprived because you could only see black.
This is very common, especially as we get older because the carotid artery does get a bit of plaque in it which causes narrowing and less blood flow to the brain, so if it gets twisted where there is a bit of plaque, it can restrict the blood flow and remember your eyes are the first to go when your body is oxygen deprived; thus you see black - if you don't adjust your neck and let the blood flow return, you can and WILL pass out.