postural hypotension – Dr Rod’s Odd Blog (almondemotion)

Please… Write to me.

It calls for better informed patients, a shift of the power-balance, away from ‘papa-says.’ It is an undoing of paternalism towards equality and inclusion.

My blood pressure is too high and when I get out of bed in the morning, I almost collapse. What should I do?

Thanks to Nigel for inspiring this blog. If follows-on from yesterday’s about postural hypotension. I don’t think, in fact, I am almost certain, no patient has ever asked me this specific question, although it is a thing. It is a condition that is tricky to manage and I suspect, one which is becoming moreContinue reading “My blood pressure is too high and when I get out of bed in the morning, I almost collapse. What should I do?”

Every time I stand up I fall over.

Older people falling is often a bad thing. The Kersh Condition and diagnostic heuristics.

Little blood pressure thing.

(In health your blood pressure rises when changing position; in disease if it falls, the blood supply to your brain, at times precarious, drops, you feel woozy, light-headed, you fall.)