"I was left hospitalised after passing out four times at Pilates class"

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A woman says a Pilates class left her hospitalised - after she passed out four times.  Lola Fernandez, 24, felt "destroyed" after completing a 55 minute HIT Pilates class in January 2025.  She rushed to the toilet and was constantly throwing up and asked her fellow classmates to call 911.  Paramedics arrived and Lola passed out four times before they got her into the ambulance - due to dehydration.  Lola spent six hours in hospital - passing out a further two times - before she could head home.  Lola, a content creator and data analyst, from Los Angeles, California said: "Once I finished the class I was completely destroyed.  Follow Lola on TikTok @lolurrrra

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00:00y'all I'm okay no but seriously though that was literally like the worst

00:05experience of my life story time so there were a lot of different factors

00:10that went into me feeling like shit so I'm gonna start off at the very beginning

00:15so the day before which was Monday night I had some food that I definitely

00:20should have not had because I don't know if like some people can relate to me but

00:24I have a very high sensitivity to like high fat foods so like pizza fried

00:28chicken like buttery steaks or like buttered seafood like anything that's

00:32just really rich and like buttery or oily or just like high fats and stuff

00:37like that my stomach does not do well with like any of those so really only

00:40like healthy stuff is what I can take and so I decided to have a couple pieces

00:46of fried chicken which was a mistake and so Tuesday morning I woke up and I

00:51threw everything up I was just like like I literally could not digest it and then

00:55I decided I'm like okay because it's happened to me before where I ate

00:59something that I shouldn't have and then thrown up and I'm like fine like I go

01:02about my day and I'm not like nauseous the rest of the day it was just like I

01:04needed to get that out of my system so I went ahead and went to the gym but I

01:09didn't eat and I probably didn't drink enough water after I threw up which

01:13again is a little bit on me I probably should have stayed home but again

01:17because I'm like feeling fine afterwards I didn't think twice about not going to

01:22the gym and also I've done fasted workouts in the past and have never ever

01:26had an episode like this so I get to my Pilates class keep in mind this is what

01:30I've been seeing so many comments this is not a hot Pilates class or solid core

01:34or anything like that this was like a regular mat Pilates class but what I

01:38will say though is that this was LA Fitness Pilates class so I have a LA

01:42Fitness gym membership and I'm a swimmer so I actually use like the lap pools um

01:46it's like a heated indoor pool salt water pool it's fantastic but I'm

01:50swimmer so I usually do laps in the pool and I saw that they have mat Pilates

01:53classes like Tuesdays and Thursdays and Wednesdays and stuff like that so I was

01:57like you know what I'm gonna try to go and do Pilates class and if you know

02:00anything about like real Pilates like whether you're instructor or you've just

02:03been to like an actual reformer Pilates class that specifically teaches like the

02:08Joseph Pilates methods um you already know like LA Fitness Pilates is probably

02:14more of like a HIIT workout mixed with like Pilates principles so it's not

02:17truly truly Pilates um it's definitely a little bit more intense because again

02:20I've tried normal classes I've tried Lagree I've tried everything you can

02:26think of and I know the differences so this was not definitely not like your

02:29typical mat Pilates class let's say like move with Nicole which I watch her on

02:33YouTube sometimes this was definitely more like a HIIT workout based Pilates

02:37after I did the whole entire workout class which was 55 minutes and literally

02:41I was like had barf in my mouth I was I was trying not to just barf everywhere

02:45because I was like dude this is gonna be a terrible fucking scene so ran down

02:49to the bathroom barfed everything up I literally stacked like the liners that

02:56you put on top of the toilet before you sit down like I literally stacked like

02:5912 or 15 of them on top of each other and I just sat down with my gym clothes

03:02and everything and I was over the toilet paper stall like bitch I was fucking

03:08dying okay so 15-20 minutes went by I still did not feel better and then I

03:12just kept having to throw up and that's when I started getting like what the

03:16doctors called Vegas syncope syndrome which basically because I was so

03:21nauseous like I am very sensitive and like soft whatever you want to call me

03:25um so I just literally could not take the nausea anymore I just kept passing

03:29out I had the girls that were in the bathroom I was like please somebody

03:33call 9-1-1 and they were so nice like shout out to like all the staff at LA

03:38fitness and the girls that were also in the locker room like they literally

03:41helped me from the bathroom stalls to the gym lockers and like sat me down and

03:45gave me water and this and that and then the paramedics came I passed out like

03:50four times before they put me into the ambulance and then twice at the hospital

03:53where they gave me fluids they gave me zofran and like some other stuff and I

03:57was feeling better but to say the least yeah so it was definitely like me not

04:03eating before going to class and not being hydrated I also threw up in the

04:07morning because of that food sensitivity and then that Pilates class it was like

04:10the cherry on top of the cake and now I know how sensitive I am so if you are a

04:15person who is just like me and gets sick often or has like heat sensitivities

04:20please do not do not do not do not go to heated Pilates or just do any kind of

04:25like hit based workout I highly recommend you start swimming though

04:28because that's what I do and I try to do at least a mile or more which is like 60

04:33or 70 laps and that's like the perfect workout for me and it's easy on your

04:39joints it's easy on like your whole body but it's a full body workout as

04:42well so if you've never thought about getting into swimming this might be your

04:45sign to get into doing that

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