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Falling for no apparent reason: Any ideas?

Brain & Nervous System | Last Active: Oct 15 11:16am | Replies (201)

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@1775house

I agree with the suggestion of seeing a neurologist, there is also the possibility of orthostatic hypotension which is when you have a change in position and your blood pressure drops. If you take any meds not just ones for hypertension, they can also affect blood pressure which would be my first guess as to the reason for falling if you don't feel dizzy and do not blank out. After that, as I said I agreed with the person who said a neurologist since the brain sends the signals (tells it) to the body to do the things it needs to do. Since we talked about the meds that affect the heart and pump blood to the whole body with the oxygen and nutrients for everything it needs to do for us to stay alive that pretty much covers it all. Well, I did not take much biology but that is my simplistic way of looking at how our bodies work. This is also why we need the doctors at 75 our bodies also change I am 70 now and how my body processes everything changes, and falling is more serious than going to see an audiologist if you can hear the doctor's receptionist when he asks for your insurance card. Living further away from major medical centers/schools ( unless you are near Dartmouth) is difficult sometimes just in transportation, but checking out researching with different symptoms like at Mayoclinic.org can give ideas along with these good ones too because we give ones that those sites can not always come up with. Hope this gives some ideas, Take care!

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you could also ask the doctor about possible hydrosephalus.

thats what i have and sometimes before my shunt was put in i fell sometimes with no warning.

They ended up thinking it was because of a medicine fluctuation and adjusted it it is my anti-seizure med so I am a little hesitant about accepting it since they lowered it and the month before I was hospitalized for 6 days because of the 2+ hour generalized seizure which they ruled out anything else more serious they could find but the fall was handed over to the internists who did the blood test after a few others and saw nothing else new. This was at Stanford in California so they are well trained if anything else happens I am in good hands