I, like many have high blood pressure, controlled by meds. On friday I woke at 4am & had to go potty.I walked out the bedroom door & got a huge dizzy spell (I have been getting them for the past couple weeks) I bent over to lower my head for a minute & when I stood up, I just kept going over backwards, blacking out. I remember hitting my head on the door frame, after that I also managed to hit my shoulder, knee, and twist my mid-back. I hit the floor and regained conciousness right away with my dogs licking my face! What a shocker ! I went to the Dr's later that day & told him what had been happening with the dizziness & the fainting that morning. He checked my BP and it was low, so he took me off one of the meds (YIPEE!) and told me to monitor myself. So a very slight concussion, bruised shoulder, knee( don't really want to damage the artificial knees !!) and a sore back, it is great to be off one of my medds but what a way to find out!

SO Sat, I stopped the 1 med & lter in the afternoon, went to town for a few things. While I was shopping I got the dizzy spells again. I went & sat for a while but they kept coming back so I finished up with 1/2 of what I went for & headed home.

I was wondering if you have had your BP meds reduced does it takes a while for it to get out of your system? Sorry for the long post, just wanted to explain it properly

if you have had your BP meds reduced does it takes a while for it to get out of your system?

Cinders

big kudos/congrats on leaving high blood pressure behind

40 lbs gone too WooHoo

i was on 2 HB meds - don't remember the names

PCP took me off one med first, kept the other for a bit.....basically he "weaned" me off the med, no side effects

I'm not sure but.....................

when your dr took you off BP meds -meds did get out of your system quickly enough

but your body might take a bit of time to adjust to the new you, minus BP meds? i think.. maybe

if your dizziness continues - make an appt with PCP - couldn't hurt

take care

feel better