10 Apr 2010, 5:43 pm
I might have a mild dose of it, I don't know. I have the salt cravings and the tendency to hypoglycemia. My mom and my friend have both told me to get it seen to, but I'm too lazy. 
10 Apr 2010, 5:49 pm
I also have this one
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You feel more awake, alert and energetic after 6PM than you do all day.
It's surely only mild, though. Not gonna kill me.
12 Apr 2010, 7:22 pm
16 Apr 2010, 1:14 am
Avarice wrote:
Medical Definition: http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=7671
Short Version: Drop in blood pressure as you stand up.
I haven't been to a doctor about it but it's impossible to miss when you have it. I noticed around a year ago that when I stood up I would get so dizzy that I would lose vision, I would also stumble around the room. It's hard to explain the feeling, it's as if I'm only half consicious while it happens. It seems to get worse as time goes on, I hit my head on a door after stumbling out of the lounge room today. It's not a particularly bad condition, but I do wonder if I will ever actually pass out because of it, and that's rather worrying.
Does anybody else suffer this? If so, do you have any strategies to manage the symptoms and prevent fainting?
Short Version: Drop in blood pressure as you stand up.
I haven't been to a doctor about it but it's impossible to miss when you have it. I noticed around a year ago that when I stood up I would get so dizzy that I would lose vision, I would also stumble around the room. It's hard to explain the feeling, it's as if I'm only half consicious while it happens. It seems to get worse as time goes on, I hit my head on a door after stumbling out of the lounge room today. It's not a particularly bad condition, but I do wonder if I will ever actually pass out because of it, and that's rather worrying.
Does anybody else suffer this? If so, do you have any strategies to manage the symptoms and prevent fainting?
Yup. I get this as well and I've had it for as long as I can remember.
If I get up too quickly from lying down, I am seriously dizzy and can sometimes even black out. I've fainted a few times and the number of times I've walked into walls, furniture, doors, or bannisters from moving too quickly in a dizzy state is not even funny. I once knocked myself out walking into the end of my bedroom door that was half open and I didn't even see it.
My strategy has been to make sure I take time after getting up to center and balance myself before I attempt to move around, otherwise things are all out of proportion and my sense of myself in the space is out of whack. So basically, patience...move slowly.
I also recently started doing yoga. I don't know if that will help this, but if it does, it would be swell
21 Apr 2010, 8:55 am
crocus wrote:
Avarice wrote:
Medical Definition: http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=7671
Short Version: Drop in blood pressure as you stand up.
I haven't been to a doctor about it but it's impossible to miss when you have it. I noticed around a year ago that when I stood up I would get so dizzy that I would lose vision, I would also stumble around the room. It's hard to explain the feeling, it's as if I'm only half consicious while it happens. It seems to get worse as time goes on, I hit my head on a door after stumbling out of the lounge room today. It's not a particularly bad condition, but I do wonder if I will ever actually pass out because of it, and that's rather worrying.
Does anybody else suffer this? If so, do you have any strategies to manage the symptoms and prevent fainting?
Short Version: Drop in blood pressure as you stand up.
I haven't been to a doctor about it but it's impossible to miss when you have it. I noticed around a year ago that when I stood up I would get so dizzy that I would lose vision, I would also stumble around the room. It's hard to explain the feeling, it's as if I'm only half consicious while it happens. It seems to get worse as time goes on, I hit my head on a door after stumbling out of the lounge room today. It's not a particularly bad condition, but I do wonder if I will ever actually pass out because of it, and that's rather worrying.
Does anybody else suffer this? If so, do you have any strategies to manage the symptoms and prevent fainting?
Yup. I get this as well and I've had it for as long as I can remember.
If I get up too quickly from lying down, I am seriously dizzy and can sometimes even black out. I've fainted a few times and the number of times I've walked into walls, furniture, doors, or bannisters from moving too quickly in a dizzy state is not even funny. I once knocked myself out walking into the end of my bedroom door that was half open and I didn't even see it.
My strategy has been to make sure I take time after getting up to center and balance myself before I attempt to move around, otherwise things are all out of proportion and my sense of myself in the space is out of whack. So basically, patience...move slowly.
I also recently started doing yoga. I don't know if that will help this, but if it does, it would be swell
Thanks for the advice. Putting it into action is hard though. It only happens when I don't think it will. It's almost as if when I think about it my body sends more blood to the brain to compensate. By the time it happens it's too late, I can't think at all.
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