Meaning of Kreislaufprobleme / Kreislaufstörung - Germany

to me "kreislaufproblem" means simply, you are so fucking tired that you can hardly get out of bed. where you have absolutely no energy and get really dizzy if you stand up too quickly or turn your head too fast or can't even manage to lather up the soap in your hair. since i have really low blood pressure, i feel like this all the time, okay not so bad, but i could sleep 10 hours a day and still be tired!

Virtually all Germans have health problems, and if they don't, there must be something wrong with them. Most of what ails them is stress related. No nation was ever more stressed, but this is understandable. After all, running Europe can take it out of you. The delicacy of the German constitution has long been recognized, and smoothly running systems put in place to keep it going. In the 1880s Bismarck set up a national health insurance scheme. Today that national health insurance underpins a vast and wonderful network of doctors, specialists, hospitals and spas. As with the French, the Germans devote enormous resources to the treatment of an illness that doesn't exist, the notorious Kreislaufstörung. While the rest of us go to meet our maker once our circulation stops, the Germans routinely recover from it and go on to lead useful and productive lives. Once they are good at it, they can have a Kreislaufstörung as often as twice a month without it seriously impairing their social life. Treatment for this frightening disease varies. However, it has been shown to respond positively to three weeks on a Greek beach.

And the best cure for "circulation problems" I would have thought is to get off your ass and get some exercise - like going to work!

Actually this mystery illness has been largely stamped out.

Kreislaufprobleme as Elf said, are essentially the result of low blood pressure. Light-headedness, dizziness, fainting, etc. Some people just prefer not to have to faint first.

DOMESTIC SURGERY.-V.

SUSPENDED ANIMATION.

UNDER the head of suspended animation are included all those cases of apparent death in which, by the judicious application of appropriate remedies, the patient may be restored to vitality and health. The simplest form of suspended animation is that seen in fainting, when, from the effects of heat or over-exertion (combined possibly with tight lacing), a young lady becomes pale, falls down insensible, and appears scarcely to breathe. The admission of fresh air is of the first importance, and she should be immediately placed near an open window, and in the recumbent position. so that the flow of blood to the head may be accelerated. At the same time, any tightness of dress should be at once remedied, and a little cold water sprinkled in the face. The use of smelling-salts is occasionally of service in rousing a patient, but care must be taken not to apply them too vigorously, for fear of irritating the nose. If, as sometimes happens, a fainting-fit is only the prelude to a fit of hysterics, the patient should be thoroughly roused by the free application of cold water, so soon as the hysterical sobbings begin to show themselves, and a brisk walk up and down the room, between two not too sympathising friends, will then probably avert a domestic catastrophe which is always annoying to all concerned. Persons with a feeble circulation, and, therefore, more liable to faintness, may be glad to know that they can often avert a fainting-fit when they feel it coming on, by at once lying down flat on a sofa; or, if from position - as in church - this is impossible, then that bowing the head well down on the knees will have the same effect.

i'm a 20-something with a lilting willy - is this a kreislaufprobleme?

Brings to mind Victorian ladies, with their fainting fits, "hysterics" and "feeble circulation"

Kreislauf Probleme...the best translation we were able to come up with was ... I'm feeling a bit under the weather!

I come from Australia where it's hotter than here, and I've never heard of such a thing before. If it's not a made up condition, why don't people there suffer from it? Could it possibly be that when it's really hot (30 degree's doesn't count as really hot), and people feel a bit dizzy, they just go somewhere cool for a second and then get on with things? IN my opinion it is a made up condition perpetrated by people that are far too sensitive.

While I'm at it, the changing of temperatures between seasons does NOT give you an illness. I have never heard such a ridiculous idea before. I used to work in a department store where lots of people would spend a few hours at -18 degrees in the freezer, then come out and work a few hours in 35 degree heat. No one got sick from that shit.

I was actually inside when I had that problem last summer. It was in the morning and I was in my apartment, not outside in the heat (though it had been very hot the past few days and that day too). My main problem was I had a final that day and feeling the way I felt I couldn't take it so I had to go to the doctor to get a doctor's note.

About 10 years ago Chicago's summer heat hit a record high and a lot of people died from overheating/exhaustian. In Australia, or Las Vegas, you jump in the pool if it's hot, or you go inside into the air conditioning, or turn on the fan. Some people just can't deal with it if it hits them quickly.

I do think it has to do with what you're used to, and just because you don't have it, doesn't mean others make it up. Some people have migraine, guess what, I have never had that problem, so does it not exist? By your logic it wouldn't. Heck they are probably just wimps having a headache.