I had this happen just a few years post-injury. While transferring out of bed, my eyes rolled back, I stopped breathing and my mom didn't hear a heartbeat for a few seconds after she "threw" me back in bed.
I ended up back in my old rehab hospital on a tilt/standing table twice a day for anywhere from 20 minutes and working up to an hour... gradually increasing the tilt until I was at a nearly full standing position. All the while I was on the table they also had me using the spirometer to measure lung capacity and ability to blow it all out. It wasn't unusual to get dizzy, or even completely black out a few seconds, when I was first getting up in the morning but this time was different... I was quickly turning blue and didn't snap out of it as soon as I was back down as I typically would. The docs said they didn't think anything really could have been done. It was a phenomenon they's seen on rare occasions and nobody had a decent enough chance to study it since it was never predictable. This was in '85-86ish. Best wishes for your friend! Sincerely, --Tod On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:34 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Good morning, > > I have a friend who is a quadriplegic C5-6, and during the past six months > he has been in the hospital five times. I don't know all the facts, I will > try to determine more information, but one symptom is low blood pressure. > The idiots in the hospital take urine cultures and tell him that he has a > bladder infection. Duh! > > Last Sunday he started a gurgling sound, eyes rolled back in his head and > appears to have a seizure. The ambulance was called and his heart stopped > twice, but was restarted. The only thing that is abnormal is the fact that > his body is not processing sodium and they must give him intravenous sodium. > > The heart doctor says he has no problem, the kidney doctor says that his > kidneys look good, in my opinion they're all a bunch of idiots. > > Anything sound familiar, other than the doctors are idiots? > > > Glenn Henry > >
