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<blockquote data-quote="FlowerGarden" data-source="post: 600648" data-attributes="member: 3068"><p>You said you got dizzy when you stood up. Blood pressure usually drops as you stand. Google Orthostatic Hypotension and neurally mediated syncope. I was sick for a year before a doctor diagnosed me with neurally mediated syncope. What happens to me is that my blood pressure drops sporadically causing blood not to get to my brain. My brain panics that it's not getting enough blood and causes my heart to pump faster (creating my heart rate to increase) and then my blood pressure gets high. Luckily for me, my regular doctor was not in and I got seen by a covering doctor. He sent me to an endocrinologist thinking it was something with my glands, etc. After a week of testing in the hospital, he felt it was orthostatic hypotension and called in a cardiologist. The cardiologist balked about doing any testing. The endocrinologist forced him to do the test. At the start of the test I was told if my symptoms didn't happen in half an hour they'd give me medication to try to get the results. Well, 7 minutes into the test I had an attack. The doctor was stunned. So stunned, that he kept asking the person doing the test with him if she had given me the medication to try to bring on an attack. She shot back at him with something along the line of "of course not. We just started the test!". The cardiologist calls it neurally mediated syncope. It also happens to me a lot if I am standing too long, like standing at a store, waiting to checkout and also happens if I sit too long. It would happen when I would be sitting watching one of my kids soccer games. Hope you feel better soon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FlowerGarden, post: 600648, member: 3068"] You said you got dizzy when you stood up. Blood pressure usually drops as you stand. Google Orthostatic Hypotension and neurally mediated syncope. I was sick for a year before a doctor diagnosed me with neurally mediated syncope. What happens to me is that my blood pressure drops sporadically causing blood not to get to my brain. My brain panics that it's not getting enough blood and causes my heart to pump faster (creating my heart rate to increase) and then my blood pressure gets high. Luckily for me, my regular doctor was not in and I got seen by a covering doctor. He sent me to an endocrinologist thinking it was something with my glands, etc. After a week of testing in the hospital, he felt it was orthostatic hypotension and called in a cardiologist. The cardiologist balked about doing any testing. The endocrinologist forced him to do the test. At the start of the test I was told if my symptoms didn't happen in half an hour they'd give me medication to try to get the results. Well, 7 minutes into the test I had an attack. The doctor was stunned. So stunned, that he kept asking the person doing the test with him if she had given me the medication to try to bring on an attack. She shot back at him with something along the line of "of course not. We just started the test!". The cardiologist calls it neurally mediated syncope. It also happens to me a lot if I am standing too long, like standing at a store, waiting to checkout and also happens if I sit too long. It would happen when I would be sitting watching one of my kids soccer games. Hope you feel better soon. [/QUOTE]
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