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Dehydration? Orthostatic hypotension?

Please be careful getting up. I had something similar happen and fell, hard. I dint get hurt, but scared the neighbors.

Thanks! I am used to getting up slowly because most of the time I get dizzy if I stand up fast.

I hope you feel better today. I get like that when I'm low on sodium and I don't take enough of my cortisone - orthostatic hypotension. My HBR tries to compensate for drop in BP upon standing from sitting or laying down. Scary. When I'm upright and start feeling like that - I just get down lowering my head even lower. When I'm in public I pretend to mess with my shoes, unless I'm with Keith. Pretend to mess with shoes so people don't stop and start asking me stupid questions like "are you okay mom?" While I'm trying to recover from the episode. Often after that, if I'm at home, I would drink 1-2 oz of my Sole water followed by more water. And make and drink electrolytes.

After I had covid - 2 months after, I developed heart palpitations just because. I would be sitting up, then suddenly I would feel my HBR get high, stay high for a few minutes, then slowly normalize. That lasted a few months, initially I would get that a few times a day, then less often.

Thanks for all that info. I look into it.

Wow that is scarry. Wonder what brought that on. Hopefully it will not happen again and we don't need to find out. Take care of yourself.

No idea, but it could be a combo of low salt and low blood pressure. I seem to also suffer from mild POTs.

Oh no! I have the heart rate of a hummingbird (so says my doctor) but even though I get multiple freaked out alerts from my Apple Watch all day about a super fast resting heartbeat, my doc says no big deal--our hearts all beat to different drummers and unless I start passing out... NBD, lol. So--if you start passing out, call my doc! JK/hope you feel better today!

I've been known to passing out. For example I can't do hot tubs, pre and post surgery. Last time I was in Italy (Oct) it was on the warm side. We were at a market and everything started going fuzzy in front of my eyes. Thank goodness my SIL is a nurse. She had me sit down on cool stone benches of the church and eventually lay down. Then I was fine.
As you said we are all different, some fast some s-l-o-w...as in really slow. You and I are the opposite extremes.

Except for gelato--in that we are the same.

Wouldn't it be fun to have a OH meet up in Italy?