Dizziness

[christinah 14]

Does anyone else get really dizzy after bending down then getting up now?

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[OutsideMatchInside 10,166]

Yes, pretty often

[TommieT 30]

Yes all the time...smh!

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[Vinasu 621]

Always.

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[Rachel79uk 31]

What did u all have done? X

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[Erika Denise 26]

I do too, and I've read about this before on here. Mine is more so getting up quickly. I feel very light headed afterwards.

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[AmandaGillis 14]

I'm 8 weeks post op and always dizzy. Doesn't matter what I do or even if I do nothing. It comes on randomly or when i get up/stand up from bending. What causes this? I am hydrated... and will it ever go away?!

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[Berrybaby 13]

I do. It's called postural hypotension (or orthostatic hypotension), basically a brief drop in your blood pressure.

The only time I have had high blood pressure was briefly in hospital, post op. Since then my blind pressure has been low. So much so that when testing for a postural drop (taking BP while sitting, then immediately after getting up) my standing BP was undetectable.

The trick is to change positions slowly.. if not you can faint.

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[Dub 9,922]

I did at 3 weeks post op.

I'd lost a good bit prior to surgery and it continued to fall off.

I was at Best Buy looking at music....bent down to the grab a CD from the bottom shelf and almost....almost passed out. Cold sweat, dizzy, clammy feeling for a while after. Went outside and sat in car a while before driving home.

I checked my blood pressure once I made it home. It was crazy low. I was still taking meds for high blood pressure, too. A call to the doctor....meds were immediately cut in half with a plan to further reduce later on.

I felt much better a couple days later an only experience the dizziness when I had low blood pressure.

Around 6 months post op I was taken off the meds and my blood pressure has been doing very well since.

Not sure if that's what is causing yours....but it caught me off guard bigtime.

[WGH3IWDT 93]

Yes, mines was so bad I almost fainted several times. What I discovered and helped was I needed more fluids, because after drinking some Water and crystal light I stopped experiencing this.

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[WGH3IWDT 93]

Also, try getting up slow and waiting a few seconds before moving.

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[adriant 109]

Get your blood pressure checked, that's what I had and it turned out that I had internal bleeding, spent another week in hospital on drips and meds.

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[OutsideMatchInside 10,166]

Drinking more and eating more helps me.