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I hope this helps you, Alex. Whether or not your eventual diagnosis is the same as mine was, please do let us all know how you get on and certainly when you are better.
I don't recall trembling before each episode; just feeling faint for 5 or so seconds and sinking almost down to the ground and then immediately regaining strength to stand up again. I was lucky in that eventually my GP gave me a small device to use at home to record my cardiogram on my mobile...
I started (almost ) fainting soon after I finished my 1st camino in 2017. After some weeks of occasionally feeling dizzy and then almost (but not quite) collapsing to the ground and then standing up again almost immediately, it was discovered I had something called pre-syncope when my heart...
My wife died in 2016. I walked the Camino from Seville to SdC over six weeks exactly a year later in her memory and to raise sponsorship money for the hospice that looked after her (at home where she and I wanted her to be). I found it helped a great deal to have focus and purpose in that first...
Oh dear. Every time I look at this site, I see alternative routes I hadn't considered before. It's like looking at a menu in a restaurant and having to choose from so many dishes. Now I am thinking of the Sureste. So, Mozarabe or Sureste? I'll have to make up my mind soon as I want to start in...
Hi all. Planning on doing the Mozarabe from Malaga to SdC in March April 2019. In 2017 I did the VdP from Seville and then transferred from Salamanca to Coimbra to walk the Portuguese up to Santiago. Why? Friends invited me to stay at at their house in Porto over Easter weekend and the thought...
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