Periods of blacking out, feeling like your in a movie?

[Mastio]

Yesterday i had an episode of purging after dinner (always eat small portions to!) but anyways, my family had to go to the store and get groceries for Christmas dinner and wanted me to come and get out of the house. Well alright off we go, so all the way to the store im fine, i go off and start getting some things i need, as i start walking around, i start to feel like im drunk, and that i have no control over what im doing, like im in a movie or a video game, i start getting very shaky. Could have this been an anxiety attack combined with the light-headedness from throwing up? ive only experienced it one other time and it's pretty scary, and it usually goes away after 15mins or so.

[deathly enchantment]

wouldnt call it a blackout as theres still conciousness, but id say your health is of concern if if becomes frequent, people tend to panic over the feelings, or can be a result of adrenaline release to increse heart function... all i can say is you need to get more vitamins in your body and plenty fluids as these sort of things can be from dehydration

[EmKay]

I get really light headed when I've a.purged and b.am about to have an anxiety attack.

It doesn't sound like you were having an anxiety attack. It sounds more likely that you were about to faint. (although you didn't really give much background, so IDK). What you described sounds like what I've experienced every time I've fainted from low blood sugar, the low blood sugar a direct result of purging.

When this happens I usually try to drink something like juice or soda, and sip it sloooowly. It doesn't take all that much to bring me back to normal.

[e.g]

i've felt like that alot, very fuzzy and surreal. didn't have anything to do with whether i'd b/p'd or not, it was more common when restricting. i think it has to do with chemicals in your body being off. the episodes subside when i've been eating healthily and taking vitamins for an extended period of time. they also decrease in frequency when i've been off caffiene for some time and my body has adjusted.
getting to the point where i'm NOT feeling...unreal and shakey consistantly...is hard. i have to engage in alot of self-control so i can be healthy and not unbalanced.

[elzie]

Even if your conscious you can still blackout/seizure! It just means you purged too hard! look after yourself x

[The Hatter]

Along side the possibility of low blood sugar, when you purge you are throwing your electrolytes out of balance. Doesn't matter if you purge 2 bites of food, of 20k calories of food. What you're describing sounds more like an electrolyte imbalance. As EmKay suggested, sip slowly on juice when this occurs, but I would reach for orange juice before anything else. The electrolyte that is most likely depleted (99% sure on this as I have had multiple trips to the ER due to this exact thing and have had seizures due to this) is your potassium so replenish it ASAP.

[HiLz]

When I was Bulimic and purging a few times a day everyday I would get a major headache immediately after purging and sometimes my body would start trembling uncontrollably and after many months of this I decided to just eat something small, have a drink of something or wash my face with cold water after purging and that always made the shakes go away....I believe it was an electrolyte imbalance....Once when I got the shakes I almost fell down the stairs, because my brain wasn't functioning very well. My legs and hands were doing whatever they wanted when I was trying to walk, but my legs were not doing their job properly. Nothing was coordinating. Another time I had the shakes and came to sit on the computer, but my hands were trembling so much I could not type a single word that made any sense. This was actually the very first time I realised purging was causing this after effect...I am no longer Bulimic so I don't get that anymore...This cocktail of troubles used to leave me completely tired. It was like my body just shut down and it fell asleep. It's flipped now, I get shaky when I pass out like little involuntary jerking movements.