[QUAD-L] Drink Your Fluids - ER Visit

[greg]

I woke up Fri morning feeling fine, but once I got up I was real dizzy. I mean so dizzy I could not sit up for more than 30 seconds. I think all day my records was 5 minutes without having to recline. I went to bed a bit early hoping I'd feel better in the morning. Sat morning I sit up and bam things start to go black. I finely cal 911. I get Iv's, blood tests, UTI test. So far it looks like it was dehydration. I do not understand how it hit me in the morning. I drank lots on Fri hoping it might help with being so dizzy. I could sit up to about 70 degrees, anything after that my eyes would start to got black. My heart rate was so slow it worried the Aide car guys (though I can't recall it). My BP was down in the 70's even hitting the 60s. Most of the time they got no reading. I'm home now, hoping that was all it was. The ER doc wanted me to spend a 24 hour watch, but I thought I was always ok laying down. What good is laying there 24 hours, get up and see how you feel. I'm hoping that's all it was. I just don't know how. I've spent hours out in the heat with no problem. Now I'm freezing from the AC in the ER, Now I've got to go sit out in the 110 sun to get warm   Greg