Have You Ever Come Close To Fainting/Passing Out?

Thank you Pat.  It's amazing that we could go from highish or high BP to normal, and the same with pulse.

Jenn.  :)

I went from taking 2 blood pressure pills to none. Now my blood pressure is always low. About 110 over 50

That was the exact symptoms I had for low blood pressure. In my case my dr had put me on blood pressure medication 2 years ago... I was on it for 2 weeks and stopped as I had what you described.  It brought my blood pressure way too low.       And the elevated blood pressure turned out only to be temporary as I have usually had low pressure all my life.

Thanks, Dar Mab,

I'll have to go to see our family MD when I get home - definitely - because I just had 2 mild episodes when I got out of a chair since I wrote my initial post.

Jenn.  :)

Can also be orthostatic hypotension.  Blood pressure drop.  It's pretty common out of surgery for a while.  Typically, you need to SLOW DOWN when you get up, allow a minute for your body to adjust to the change in blood pressure and then move.  If you do it all at once,  it can result in that very faint feeling.  I had it.  Hubby had it.  I still get episodes on the odd occasion.

Dawn

Hi Dawn,

Thank you, it certainly sounds like orthostatic hypotension.  Sometimes I even lose my hearing - when everything goes dark.

I don't know why I didn't think of taking things slowly, probably because I feel fine before I get up, and it also doesn't happen every time I get up.

Jenn.  :)