LIGHTHEADEDNESS

For the past week, I've not been blogging as actively as before. Have been feeling rather sick. This is the first time bringing this up: I tend to - at times - encounter head rush and giddy spells whenever I stand or sit up from a resting position. Of late, though, it has been on a rising incidence.



Ok, I lied. I'm not THAT sick. The truth is: I've been too busy watching Boys Over Flowers on Youtube!



Part of that is true, though. I tend to get lightheaded - lasting for a minute at its' worst - when getting up from a resting position. It ranges from waves of nausea to spinning rooms to spotted lights to dimmed visions to momentary total darkness - while fully conscious. Sometimes, I sigh inwardly when I dropped things on the floor, because bending down to retrieve it makes my head feel heavy at times. Orthostatic hypotension, they call it. The inability of the body nervous system to compensate and respond to the drop in BP - a result of gravity and change in body positions - fast enough. The causes are aplenty and diverse, and despite all these years, I've not been able to pinpoint mine out. I've yet to get myself diagnosed or checked. Because as opposed to hypertension, hypotension is considered mild and is generally not life-threatening. Because I would hate doing blood tests (to check for anaemia or low blood volume), being linked up to an ECG machine and BP meter (to check the cardial system), and having to do a Tilt Table Test, with the possibility of an IV needle poking into the arm or hand. That sounds frighteningly monstrous and morbidly expensive for a 22yo.