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Originally Posted by diakonos
Last night at work I was getting dizzy and felt like I was going to blackout. I thought it was maybe because I didn’t eat much.
Fast forward to today, I felt this way several times during my shift. My head would suddenly feel warm, I’d feel dizzy, and felt as if I was going to lose consciousness.
I went to see the company nurse. She monitored my vitals for an hour. My blood pressure readings were normal. Well, the diastolic reading was slightly elevated, but that has become the new normal for me.
The systolic readings were considered good, but for me they were lower than usual.
Laying down vs standing there was a difference of around 10 mmHg. I don’t recall which was higher, laying or standing.
The nurse stated that my heart was beating harder while standing, not faster, harder- as if it is trying to compensate for something going on in my body.
I had to fess up to slamming energy drinks during my shifts because I don’t get any natural sleep. The last 2 weeks have been pretty bad for me.
My supervisor came in to check on me. The nurse told him that she is not comfortable sending me back onto the floor, but she couldn’t make the decision to send me home because the difference in bp readings were not too extreme.
My supervisor allowed me to go home.
I covet your prayers while I navigate through this mess.
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Praying for you. I had to quit all caffeine years ago. I used to drink 1 to 2 2 liters of Mountain Dew every day. Wound up in the ER thinking i was having a stroke. i had palpitations and felt dizzy, basic panic attack symptoms. Everything checked out fine except my blood pressure was through the roof (the traige nurse told me i need to calm down and relax or I was likely to have a stroke right there before I even got see a doctor). Anyway the doc told me a lot of guys my age were presenting with similar symptoms, and it was from overuse of caffeine.
Now, I can't even do decaf tea, I can feel the miniscule amounts of caffeine, makes me slightly jittery. (Either that or it's psychological.) Either way, after quitting caffeine cold turkey it took me about a year to get back to "normal". Kept having "episodes" of tachycardia, palpitations, dizziness, a feeling of increasing pressure in my head, heart skipping beats, etc. Things have calmed down quite a bit since then (this was like two decades ago). Stress also plays a BIG part in it all.
Now I box. For the last year I've been training about 5 days a week consistently, previously I would do like 2 or 3 days a week. Also went mostly carnivore (I still cheat every now and then). Since then, my health has improved dramatically. Not as achy and sore as I used to be. My energy levels are more steady and not up and down like they used to be when I ate a lot of carbs. Lost about 20 pounds since January (went from 160 to 140 something depending on when I eat and time of day etc). Still losing body fat while getting more toned and firm. Boxing works muscles I never knew existed lol. Lots of burpees , jump rope, and footwork drills also burn fat pretty good.
Of course, my thumb is a bit busted right now and I developed a corn on my foot from running, but hey such is life.
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