ER visit UPDATED

Re: ER visit UPDATED

• Painterlady member

  March 2014

  Take care...I hope they find out what's wrong and get you fixed up!

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• PixiesDust member

  March 2014

  Have you been taking any cold medications and/or drinking enough fluid?  I've blacked out a few times from a combo of cold medicine and dehydration.  I'm sure that would be obvious though.  Anyway, fx and good juju your way!

  
  
  
  

  
  

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• sooner1981 member

  March 2014

  chelseyestelle said:

  sooner1981 said:

  chelseyestelle said:

  sooner1981 said:

  Does the nausea and blacking out happen more when you have just stoops up recently? Does it happen more when you are tired or haven't drunk enough water?

  It honestly has no rhyme or reason to it. It's hard for me to tell that it's coming but it's always.. Dizzy, nauseous, and then I lose my vision if that's gonna happen. It's been happening more and more lately and I believe it started in December (around the same time I got mirena) but that might just be a coincidence. It might be because I'm BF and dehydrated. They really don't know.

  Did they test you for "orthostatic hypotension"? It is a condition where you get dizzy/pass out if you sit up too quick after lying down, stand up too quick after sitting, or make any other positional changes before your blood pressure has time to adjust. The time it takes to adjust is a lot longer when you haven't drunk enough liquids and eaten enough salty foods.
  
  I have this and breastfeeding makes it worse because my body is always less hydrated than normal--even when i drink lots of water. I have found that Gatorade is very good to keep me from the dizziness/nausea.
  
  Maybe ask your doctor about it if they haven't tested you for it?

  I honestly don't even remember what they tested for. The took 8 things of my blood and I know they ran a bunch of things. He asked me how I felt when I changed positions but I couldn't remember if it was every time and if there was a correlation. It does kind of sound like what you are describing so I will for sure ask the doctor about it this week! Thank you.

  There isn't really a blood test for this. The easiest way to test for it is to consciously stay really hydrated and add some salty foods to your diet for a few days. More salt, more liquids.
  
  If you feel less dizzy/have fewer episodes, it is likely that you have it--and the treatment is basically just to continue to drink more and eat more salt.

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