Fainting hamster?

[Lisa53]

Our hamster, Bear was active last night on my lap. Suddenly she just flopped over and was still. She opened and closed her eyes and her tail was upright. I thought she had a stroke or was dying but she is only 8 months old. After a couple of minutes she put her head up and down and then got up like nothing had happened! Straight back to normal and eating and drinking. Walking normally so I don’t think it was a stroke? Does anyone have any idea what happened?

[Fluffagrams]

It sounds very like something that happened to one of my first Chinese Hamsters. I honestly thought he was dying but the next thing I knew, he was up and about like nothing had happened.

I concluded that it was either a minor stroke or some kind of seizure but he never had another episode like that until he had what was definitely a stroke in his old age.

The other thing that makes me wonder if it's something heart related, particularly if she was very active just before it happened.