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ORIGINAL: ShellyD
What you are describing are clinical signs of shock.

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Prisoners often go into shock during caning and the punishment leaves permanent scars on their buttocks. Source: http://www-tech.mit.edu/V114/N11/briefs2.11w.html 

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ORIGINAL: Zephyr46


I had my first play session with the Mistress who is considering me as her beta submissive. Things didn't go as we had hoped and I needed to ask if anyone else has had a similar experience.

Forgive me if this is long. I have an annoying propensity for detail.

The scene was at a public gathering of lifestylers that meets for a play party once a month.

This was my first "real" scene (prior things were some cbt and spankings but nothing coming close to this intensity).

Though very experienced, this was my Mistresses first scene with me. We had negotiated rather well, I thought, before the scene and both of us were looking forward to it.

I had eaten well about two hours before the scene and I was taking precautions to keep hydrated as well.

I was placed naked except for my collar on a St. Andrews in the play space's dungeon and blindfolded. Focussing mainly on my bottom, Mistress worked slowly from light to heavier implements. (scratching, pinching, light floggers, leather paddle, wood paddle).  I was enjoying it and seemed to be processing the pain well. (Truth be told, I was enjoying the heck out of the experience.)

Mistress was attentive to my well being and continued to check on it as we progressed and I took comfort in her attentiveness. She told me that she was going to take it up to the next level and I was ok with this.

She then went to a rattan cane focussing primarily on my bottom I received about 10 strokes with the cane which were intense. Then she went to a riding crop. After about 5 strokes with the crop things unexpectedly turned sour. I began to get dizzy and slightly nauseated. I reported these senstations and the scene immediately stopped.

I was taken down from the cross, I put my head between my knees and felt better in a short time.

Mistress and the DM on duty were both attending me. They put a blanket over me then had me sit down.

Symptoms that were noted by others after the dizziness and nausea passed was that I was pale, sweating profusely but cold to the touch, my pulse was taken and surprisingly it was very low (54 beats/min) where it might have been expected that my heart rate would have been in the 90's considering what I had been through up to that point.

The scene did not resume (for good reason) and emotionally I felt as though I had failed Her and that we both were disappointed in this turn of events that surprised both of us. Future scenes are presently out of the question until I can figure out what happened. I feel sad that this will jeopardize my being under consideration with this Mistress.

In order to try to understand possible causes to this episode, I have scheduled an appointment with a cardiologist even though I have never had any heart distress symptoms and a resting EKG done about 14 days prior was normal. At that time the doctor noted that my heart rate was low then too.

Does anyone know if there might be other things that might have caused this reaction? Is this the way my body processes a pain/stress overload, perhaps? If it is, are there methods other people employ to get beyond this barrier?

That night my mind was still saying "Green" but my body called a "red" and I don't know why.

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ORIGINAL: Zephyr46

I want to thank each and everyone who has posted here on this topic.  Often times I see questions from OPs answered with flippant responses and sort of expected the "Doctor, it hurts when I do this.... Well, Don't do this then."  answer.  All the advice here has been wonderful and helpful. BTW An appointment with a cardiologist for a stress test has been made to either verify or refute any heart issues.  Other physical activities (mowing lawn, splitting firewood for the winter, working the video crew for footballl games) have not produced symptoms.

If I didn't have complete trust in my Mistress and her experience, we would not have scened at all. I'm sure it scared her and the people in the play space that night too and we both are stepping back a bit until we can better understand the causes. The ramifications of calling EMS for a potential heart attack would have been far reaching for the group and even if I get a clean bill of health from the cardiologist it is doubtful that I will be able to have another session there again.

As her beta submissive I think my role was to fill in a gap that the dynamics between her and her Alpha submissive had... active sceneing in play space venues was one such activity. I don't see much success in this happening now.  If heart problems are there, bye bye submissive.  If this is simply my body's way of dealing with the stress/pain and I am nowhere near the level she had expected me to receive then it is bye bye submissive anyhow.  Her Alpha fills all her other needs/wants and I certainly would not wish to compete with him for her attention. 

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ORIGINAL: Zephyr46
It is interesting to me that you mentioned this. I have been going back over my personal history and can recall three other times in my life when I felt the way I did during the scene. One involved a heavy blow to the sternum but the other two were when chatty doctors wanted to give me an adventure in anatomy as they described the procedures they were doing to my locally anesthetized body. The first doctor, a plastic surgeon was pointing out tendons and blood vessels on my hand that was being treated for third degree burns. The second was telling me how he was fishing the vasdeferens from the incision he had made in my scrotum when I had my vasectomy.