I am a 51 year old woman with symptoms getting worse and I'm getting weaker. I cannot clean my floors, pick something up off the floor, or do any gardening without standing up, feeling dizzy enough to faint and begin vomitting. The vomitting is a new symptom. Sometimes the pain in my head is so piercing, I grab my head and tears come from my eyes. This happens when I get up from a sitting position at work, or going into a store or off the couch. It's getting to be very debilitating and I can't seem to do anything. Last Friday a Tilt Table Test revealed that it only took 16 minutes standing for my symptoms to start. I wake up almost every night with my heart absolutely thumping in my chest very fast. I usually sit up and it stops after a little while. I read about a caroid vein in my neck and it said to rub the neck under the jaw (which usually hurts during the day). It seems this is working at night...the thumping stops and I can fall back to sleep. I was diagnosed with left bundle branch block a few years ago and now this syncope. I was not raised by my biological parents, but I do know that my mother had an unsuccessful operation on her neck a few years ago because the doctors predicted she'd only have two years left if she didn't (operation 85/15). She had the heart attack anyway the day after the operation. I do not know the particulars. Could my symptoms be related? I want to see my granddaughter born soon.