Very good point- low volume and electrolytes will definitely lower your BP. I tend to have low volume; due to what I believe is because of my poor paralyzed bowel. I drink at least one half gallon of water daily; which also flushes electrolytes out, so I periodically drink Gatorade Tiger which has more electrolytes than regular Gatorade. One matter of fact is; people who are thin tend to run a lower BP than heavier people. Orthostatic hypotension is what I am diagnosed with. Good luck Lil'! Tim
----- Original Message ---- From: Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, August 2, 2008 8:21:26 PM Subject: FW: [QUAD-L] serious health questions - heat 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 > >
