I am not a doctor. Nor do I play one on TV. I've seen every episode of ER about five times. I consult random sites on the innernets. I observe Farmer H's maladies and treatments. Using this great store of questionable information, I diagnosed my dizziness that has plagued me for a couple months.
I think it was low blood pressure.
Yes, I mentioned this several days ago. And my "prescription" for solving it. I am here now with my results. You may recall that I took matters into my own hands, and cut my blood pressure medication in half. I also changed the time of day I took it, from mid-morning to evening. Plus I made an effort to consume more water. As I type this...
I have not had a dizzy spell in 56 hours. Not since Sunday evening, 45 minutes after I took my half-pill of 10mg lisinopril.
I have continued to take that half-pill every evening. I'm not quitting a blood pressure med cold turkey. Just tapering it down. I will continue this regimen unless I start to feel poorly. Like if I get headaches, which was one of my initial symptoms before I was diagnosed (by a doctor!) with high blood pressure. Since that initial diagnosis, I have lost 44 percent of my body weight. Yet the dosage of this medication has never changed. I think it might need to be adjusted. Which I will address at my appointment next month.
For now, this strategy is working. KNOCK ON WOOD (and the whole forest behind the Mansion)!
4 comments:
Interesting, I take a 50mg every day for my pressure - are you getting pressure readings? I never check my pressure, lol!
jj,
I used to have a monitor at home, which my mom gave me many years ago. I don't know where it went. So I don't check it at home. I'm just going on my doctor visits and their readings. And how I've been feeling after that last reading and more weight loss.
I can only speak for myself, but even after losing weight my medication dosage has never been changed and I have not had any problems from that. It is a very low dose anyway, only 5mg and my doctors haven't said anything about changing it.
River,
Good to know that you are not trying this at home! I have "lost a whole person," as OT commented when we were discussing it, so I figure "that person" needed half of my dosage, heh, heh.
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