Lack of enough water is often over looked as lowering BP and major cause for UTIs. Need more in the summer so it is a good reason to push fluids. What bothers me is having low BP and feeling so tired at night. The moment my head hits the pillow I am awake all night. Next day you bet my BP is low. I do not take meds for prostate or bladder so raising my BP is not fighting these. The double espresso in the AM will raise blood pressure in moments. I use the supra pubic so my bladder and prostate can get as tight as they want.
Merrill _____ From: ~LittleQuad~ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 5:26 PM To: Tod E. Santee; [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] serious health questions - heat i've never had it like this before, this summer isn't as hot as last summer and i was literally riding in my chair around tyler last summer........ "Tod E. Santee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 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~ wrote: > > From: ~LittleQuad~ > 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 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~ wrote: > > From: ~LittleQuad~ > Subject: [QUAD-L] serious health questions > To: "Quad-list post" > 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 > >
