All good advice. Also check your meds. Baclophin (spelling) and some other bladder pills lower BP as do anti spasmodic and pain meds. I would always pass out in the shower after removing the binder. Have someone hold a fist into the abdomen helps if you can not bend forwards or way back.
Merrill -----Original Message----- From: Tod E. Santee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 11:51 AM To: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] serious health questions Hi All, Is there a chance your recently lower-than-"youir"-average BP and fainting could be related to the summer heat or humidity? Or are you in A/C all day... including not waiting for a vehicle A/C to cool off? My BP drops every summer and even more if I go out in the heat. (It makes work in a geenhouse... uh... "interesting" to say the least. Best of luck! --Tod ---- Debbie Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have low blood pressure too. I also take midodrine, they are 5 mg tabs I usually take three per day. Another thing I was given to combat low blood pressure was Sudafed I can take up to 30 mg four times a day. Ask your doctor about Sudafed. I still wear Ted hose and a waistband. I feel so much better when my blood pressure is above a hundred systolic. When I need a midodrine I know it's about 70 systolic or lower. Good luck. > > Debbie > C4 incomplete/April 2005 > > --- On Sat, 8/2/08, ~LittleQuad~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: ~LittleQuad~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] serious health questions > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] > Date: Saturday, August 2, 2008, 11:22 AM > > > haha, 84 lbs now....i take 10mg 3 times day. > > t crook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hey Lil'- > Long time no hear from. I have been going through the same thing (except the UTI's, I did have a bad one a couple of months ago, it was only my second UTI in almost 20 yrs) and am now on midodrine also. I am feeling better until the midodrine wears off after 3 hours. My blood pressure has always been low; but I have had alot more lows with near passing out with always feeling tired and light-headed. My lab work came back good, and so did my adrenal gland test. I am and always have been lean, but I am wondering if the atrophy I have had has something to do with it.? > Kind of sounds like we are in the same boat, as I recall you are just a lil'-thing... haha! > How much midodrine are you taking? > > Tim > > > > --- On Fri, 8/1/08, ~LittleQuad~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: ~LittleQuad~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [QUAD-L] serious health questions > To: "Quad-list post" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, August 1, 2008, 9:08 PM > > > i have really low bp, like 50/30s and started med for it but not helping, plus i'm fainting at least 2 times a days.(i have fainted all my life, when scared real bad or hurt but never daily unttil last few months) then i'm so exhausted from that i don't want to do much. my son (10 yrs old) has been gone while this problem has become so invading and i'm worried what he'll think we he realizes it, he worries about me a lot anyway, never admit it though. > my pcp had mri brain, cervical area, ecg, and vascular ultrasound of neck done, all results were normal. so referral to cardiac doc and he ran ekg, seemed ok, but put me on 24/7 heart moniter for 30 days, several spells in 3 days. he doubled the midodrine* plus referred me to a Electrophysiologist (the names are getting weirder). it is really scary cuz i was the youngest patient in 4 story building by 20 years!!!! i'm only 28! > i keep getting uti's, will cure one 2 weeks later its on the way back. my urologist and rehab doc don't like each other or agree on what to do and i don't know which to go with. the rehab doc wants to fight the uti's by inserting some bacteria, he says iss new procedure, my uro says the rehab doc is young dodo for nice terms. ugh so i'm going to go see uro again to see what to do..... > anyone else have similar probs? > thanks....littlequad > >
