by Snaga on Sun Jun 14, 2015 2:49 pm
Well, I don't always, and with age it's not usually so bad. Ofc I've always heard it's common during the teenage years, on account of growth spurts sometimes getting ahead of the blood supply, which sounds crazy to me. I know as a teenager I often had 'dimming' upon getting up quickly. Once I nearly did pass out. At least, next thing I knew, I was on the floor.
As an old fart, it's usually when I'm tired. Or, interestingly, if I've been in one position a long time, for example, hunched over a keyboard. I'll get up, or stretch, and everything goes to grey for a moment.
Do you get migraines? I sometimes, not so common anymore, but am prone to silent, painless migraines that present with little or no pain, nor marked hypersensitivity, but I get the aura, fortification lines, etc., and my vision is essentially out of commission for about an hour. I just have to relax, preferably in the dark, until the temporary blindness passes. I wonder if that could be related, since migraines, aren't they caused by some kind of vasoconstriction (spelling?) in the brain? Just a thought.
Back to the sodium.... it was a long time ago I'd seen reference to the salt, and while I sometimes try not to sound artificially authoritative (since usually I'm unwittingly talking out of my ass- the older I get, the more I realise I talk out of my ass, CONSTANTLY. I must be such a boor to others), it seemed to me I'd heard or read that some researchers had decided.... well, I had gotten the impression that lots of salt would not MAKE you have high BP, but if you already HAD high BP, sodium was likely to exacerbate it. But what do I know? Meh.
yes... I'd prefer you not faint, either! As I said, as a young man, well maybe not teens, twenties maybe, I jumped up off the couch once (this is way back in the dark ages? when we didn't all have remote controls for the TV?) and the next thing I know I'm on all fours. Good thing I missed the coffee table on the way down, that would have hurt!
((hugs))