Going downhill fast

[Rerun]

Over the weekend I put on 2000.  I swear I don't know where it came from.  I did stand in the rain for a few minutes.  Makes a person wonder.  Anyway, I got on the machine and I was 104/70 so I waited an hour and it was just going down so I took a Midodrine and it just never worked.  They got 1300 off is all.  So now I'm really "careful" again.  Makes me so mad.  So I will look into raising my calcium.  Give it a try. 

I just had a bad day thinking about all this.  Then I just have to hand it over to God.  I'm worrying about things that I can't control.

[Desert Dancer]

So sorry to hear this, Rerun. Low BP is a scary, scary thing and just as dangerous as high BP (and not nearly as well-researched). Mine averaged about 60/40 so I was pretty much couch-locked and that's no kind of life at all.

I hope you can find a solution.

[okarol]

I have heard sometimes adding a bit of salt might help. Does anyone ever recommend this?
Jenna was still on BP meds and they forgot to take her off them as her blood pressure went down. Crazy.

[Desert Dancer]

I had my nurse tell me to eat ramen noodles a few times a week, but that was because my sodium was low, not for the BP. I barely ever use salt at all anymore.

One of the things - actually the very first thing - I tried was raising my dry weight... oh gosh, it's normally around 58kg but I think I let it get all the way up to 68kg. It didn't do anything but make it hard to breathe and my legs felt like overstuffed sausages about to burst. Had no effect on my BP whatsoever.

[okarol]

One day my friend Lori had low BP and her doctor said - eat some saltines! She was being so cautious about salt that she wasn't getting enough. Your body needs only 500 mg of sodium per day to function under normal circumstances. This amount is all you need to maintain the electrolyte balance that your body's cells require for normal functioning.