“Whoa, that was strange!” This was the comment recently from a friend who was standing in line for a movie with me recently. Always interested in “strangeness” I asked my friend to expand on that statement. “I just had that dizzy feeling again like when you stand up to quickly from a seated or lying position.”
The fact that this dizzy feeling was happening “again” indicated a pattern to me so we began to discuss this symptom. I knew my friend had been diagnosed with high blood pressure a few months back and through our discussion, I learned that this is also when the dizzy spells started happening.
This is not so surprising, as one of the symptoms of chronic high blood pressure is dizziness, in addition to headache, blurred vision and fatigue. My friend, however, had none of these symptoms before a routine physical indicated a high blood pressure reading and more tests were ordered.
Additionally, much research on dizziness and blood pressure indicates that low blood pressure is generally the culprit. When the blood pressure drops, dizziness is a common side effect.
How low blood pressure drops is of less importance than the fact that the blood pressure is dropping at patterned intervals and so the side effect is important because it could be denoting a serious medical problem.
The important thing to take note of is what your blood pressure readings are when you experience the dizziness whether low or elevated. Purchasing an ambulatory cuff will help with that.
It also occurred to me that my friend’s dizziness could also stem from vertigo (the sensation that objects and people around you are moving when they are not or that you are moving when you are not). Vertigo, quite simply, means dizziness.
There are several causes of vertigo including trauma to the head but the most common is Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo, or BPPV. This is an inner ear disorder which can suddenly cause dizziness when the head is moved in a certain position.
The fact that my friend’s dizziness started immediately after being prescribed high blood pressure medicine was of concern to me. In fact, his doctor didn’t mention anything about dizziness as a side effect.
His first cause for concern was when he picked up the prescription and noticed no fewer than 4 warning stickers on the bottle indicating severe side effects, the least of which was dizziness.
His doctor at first shrugged off the link but after 4 months and no other causality, he eventually prescribed a different medication. This helped to alleviate certain other high blood pressure symptoms but it wasn’t until my friend tried my High Blood Pressure program that the underlying causes were treated.
Almost immediately, my friend was feeling better and within just a few weeks he was able to go back to his doctor and begin to wean himself off of the medication. My program is all natural and easy to follow, but the most important fact is that it works! I highly recommend it if you suffer from either high blood pressure or low blood pressure. And if you suffer from dizziness or vertigo, my Vertigo and Dizziness program will help you.
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