dear world, please stop spinning, love h-l x.

[baratron]

I am having a problem at the moment where I get dizzy if I suddenly stand up, and positively vertigo-y with room spinning if I bend down. Yay. This has been going on for a few weeks, but I only noticed today when I got "seasick" on the bus. (As in, oh my god, the whole world is shaking up and down - but it isn't!). I realise now that the "flashes" of dizziness I've had when jumping up to write on the whiteboard are nothing to do with being overwhelmed by the brilliant shiny white board, and actually more likely my blood pressure doing weird things. Likewise, "flashes" of dizziness and nausea when loading or emptying the washing machine are nothing to do with any stench emanating from the kitchen bin. Bah.

Fortunately (?), the instructions that come with mirtazapine (a.k.a. Zispin) say that dizziness and sudden drop in blood pressure on standing are a known side-effect. As this is the drug that has most recently had its dosage changed, I'm suspecting this is the issue. I have a doctor's appointment on Friday anyway, so I can talk about this then. Yay. I should probably also read the leaflets of everything else I'm on right now and see what any of them say. Knowing my luck, I probably have insanely high blood pressure thanks to Efexor that then drops away to bugger all thanks to mirtazapine. *roll eyes*

Anyway, I am feeling like total dizzy nauseous crap right now. It's manifesting mostly as sudden low blood sugar, if you know what that feels like. But right now, I have eaten two meals in the last 4 hours and had a large glass of juice, so it's pretty unlikely that I do have low blood sugar. Gah. Also have an enormous amount of sympathy/empathy for Natalya, who has been dealing with this on a much, much worse scale for several months now. This is nothing compared to hers. God!

Comments

[barakta]

Joyful. Mine goes through phases, after being horrible for a week, it's been nice for 2 days. I still need to visit my GP though... Laziness and procrastination are currently winning though.

Hopefully it'll be one of those side effects which settles down over time. I find I eat to stop being sick and I'm learning to stuff my face immediately before going to sleep - contrary to most insomnia advice .

[lizw.livejournal.com]

Low blood pressure can manifest with very similar symptoms to low blood sugar - aegidian and I have both been taken in by that. I'm guessing that you can't tolerate caffeine with the IBS, but one trick that I've found quite effective, which might tide you over until you can see your doctor, is to up my water intake and ignore the advice about "sipping" - 250 ml of cold water down in one usually resolves the symptoms. No, I have no idea why.

[ludy]

meep, snuffle snuffle.
I can't rmeneber right now which of the many drugs i've tried gave me postural hypotension (i know it was one of the anti-depressants - it could of been effexor or lustral) and oilrig had a bout of it when his potsassium levels got low on a loop diretric - it's very yucky and i sympathise.
I usually find pepermint is helpful but i know others who swear by ginger.