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Dizziness upon standing

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make sure your Iron is up to where it should be, and also your fluids, dehydration will cause that, plain and simple. Very common.

I have suffered with this off and on since surgery 15 months ago.

I do notice it gets worse when I'm not eating or drinking enough, so I always try to stay good and hydrated! I still really need to talk to my PCP about it, but from what I've seen here, it's pretty normal for us WLS folk :)

Do you currently take medication to lower your blood pressure? If so, I believe there's the potential for it to make it too low, of which dizziness can be an indication.

There's a medical term for that. Orthostatic hypotension It can be a lack of Water or your blood pressure. If it persist call the doctor and get checked out.

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make sure your Iron is up to where it should be, and also your fluids, dehydration will cause that, plain and simple. Very common.

Thanks, I thought so, that's why I'm forcing fluids this evening. Every waking hour. It really takes a lot and seemingly every waking hour for real to get the fluids in.

That's been really hard for me to do for some reason .

Thanks for the reply.

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I have it too and have since surgery. My blood pressure runs naturally low, so now that I'm almost at goal I run 93/60. I just have to make sure I stand up very slowly!!

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Do you currently take medication to lower your blood pressure? If so, I believe there's the potential for it to make it too low, of which dizziness can be an indication.

Yes I do, and you know what, I didn't even think about that. I'll take my blood pressure now . I bet that's what it is.

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I have it too.

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Do you currently take medication to lower your blood pressure? If so, I believe there's the potential for it to make it too low, of which dizziness can be an indication.

Thanks. I saw my surgeon yesterday and yes, they took me off my blood pressure meds. Because I hadn't taken it in 24hrs and my blood pressure was still only 111 /61 in his office yesterday and my blood sugar was only 64, so they took me off that medication too.

They also did blood work and my potassium was low too, so they increased that.

So problem solved. Yay!

Thanks so much for all the responses from everyone, it really helped! !!!!!

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Yes, often. It's low blood pressure/ dehydration. Drink up!

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