Everytime I stand up my blood pressure drop

[bex986]

Am on blood pressure tablets and have already cut them down to half and that helped for a day or so but everytimw I stand up I feel faint and dizzy.
Is this just because am not eating solids and my body not used to eating hardly any calories or something more sinister

 

[adrienne]

I'd get that looked at, I feel very tired and weary but only really felt dizzy once, don't dismiss it Hun get it checked out, you can't mess about with bp xx

 

[bex986]

Thanks hun am going to ring the doctor tomorrow. Hopefully its a case of my blood pressure pills are working to well! As they havent been changed since well before I started with the weight management team and was at my heaviest!

 

[Paula Garner]

Sound like a postural drop to me. Sounds like your BP meds are working too well.

 

[bex986]

Thanks, fingers crossed.
will be phoning the doctors tomorrow and see if I can try coming off them to see if that helps x

 

[Yvessa]

Also are you drinking enough? I get this when I'm slightly and I do mean slightly! dehydrated.

 

[bichonbabies]

I had the same, they told me would take a few weeks for my body to adjust to the weight loss. I had always had high blood pressure (probably due to my weight) then it went into the normal range which was just low for me. A couple of weeks later i was fine again. Was just very careful how quickly I got up as ended up on the floor a couple of times. You should speak to the GP tho.