AboutDavid Richardson Expertise Adult heart function and disease. Not very good about children lesss than 12. Hypertension is o.k. Heart rhythm a special interest.
Experience Certified in cardiology by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Was chairman of division of cardiology at the Medical College of Virginia. Am now mostly retired.
Organizations Fellow of American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology and member of American Physiological Society..
Publications Circulation, American Heart Journal, Hypertension.
Education/Credentials M.D. from Harvard Medical School. Residency training at Yale Uhniversity School of Medicine and Medical College of Virginia.
Awards and Honors Gold Heartt Award from American Heart Association in 1995.
Question I am well aware of orthostatic hypotension, however, I have the opposite effect. I am low normal BP laying down about 89/58 and upon standing getting a pounding feeling in my eyes as my BP rises up to 120/80. Things sometimes go black for a minute or I get dizzy. Well, no one knows what this is or why it happens. Now I am having issues with being dizzy all the time, while sitting, driving, standing. I do take levoxyl, switched a few months ago after synthroid gave me palpitations, so maybe it is just my hypothyroid, I am not sure. Any ideas?
Thanks
Kris
Answer Dear Kris,
No, sorry. If the dizziness is spinning, like you're spinning round and round or the room is spinning around you, It's positional vertigo. See an ear specialist who can teach you how to stop the dizziness by sitting on a bed, then throwing yourself backward onto the bed while bending your head first in one direction, then the other, to throw grains of sand out of the semicircular canals in your inner ear. If not spinning dizziness, I have no good idea. The blood pressure change is normal and probably not causing the dizziness.
Please write back if this note doesn't answer all your questions, and please oh please let me know when you find out what's causing your dizziness.
