Hello, My name is Marty Harris, I'm 36 years old and I have Acute Malignant Vasovagal Neurocardiogenic Syncope. In simple terms, I faint - a lot! Well, I use to faint a-lot. Not anymore. What's my secret you might ask? I'll get to that but first I want to share my journey with you.

Hello there, my name is Hannah, my friends call me Peanut.
I'm 10 years old and have Vaso-vascular syncope. That's a pretty big word for passing out or fainting.

I don't get any warning signs before this happens and find myself waking up on the ground . I get scared and sometimes start to cry. I'm usually okay after just a few minutes but sometimes I get really tired and need to sleep for awhile. A good nap for an hour makes me feel better.

Our daughter Claire was five years old when she fainted for the first time. One evening two years ago, Claire fell into my arms during dinner. She simply stared and fell over. I didn't understand what was happening, but she recovered quickly and wanted to finish her dinner. My husband and I were alarmed, but she recovered quickly and even wanted to finish eating. As she seemed to be perfectly normal we attributed the incident to just being a kid. My husband did tell me something similar had happened a couple of months earlier, but at the time he thought Claire was just playing around. The next day things grew more serious. During lunch, Claire was eating when again she stared off into space and then fell over. This time she wasn't so lucky, and she hit her head on the ceramic tile floor. Fortunately, all she suffered was a bump on the head but this time, I knew something was very wrong so I took her to our local children's hospital.

I’d never had fainting problems as a child, but during my first pregnancy (at 8 months pregnant) I stood up and felt like I was going to pass out. I didn't know what was wrong and just put it down to late pregnancy and stress.