Why the technical medical title today? It’s 9:40am and I just experienced my first episode of it for the day and if I’m careful then it will be my last. Orthostatic hypotension is a drop in blood pressure, particularly the diastolic, by 20 points or more on average. In a nutshell it’s that light-headedness one feels when they rise up from a lower position to a standing position.

My drops can be fairly large which leave me light-headed enough to cause me to almost black out and fall to the ground. For me my drops average around 30-40+. A recent episode went from 1670/100 to 121/80. Yes, I know those numbers are high in general and at one time I was taking meds to decrease my BP but then when I was hospitalized back in October or 2023 they took that away due to concern of how low my BP would drop. OK, that makes sense to start off.

But then they (the doctors) decided to give me meds to increase my BP. All fine and dandy until two weeks later I noticed that even resting I could be at 195/105, not fucking cool. I stopped taking it right away and let my doctor know. She said just monitor it for now and then if there are any big chances in the future then we’ll deal with it at that time. So far so good.

I just realized that if I did a post about every single one of my ailments if would take several months to do. Maybe after the first of the year I will break it down to two posts. Plus I’m down to two weeks to make my first youtube video that is good enough to share with my Mother as a birthday gift to her.