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Lightheadedness at times.

Brain & Nervous System | Last Active: Jan 5 11:43am | Replies (20)

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I feel the same way , some times I think about matters stressful or not I find my self to stop breathing or if I am hungry it much worse , also I can be in and around people’s feeling stress just being around people’s wondering when some one will come out with a gun and just start shooting peoples , also straining to try to see small print on my phone some times can make me loose vision in one or the other eye for a few minutes , also I can not pay any video games because I start concentrating too hard on how to beat the game and I forget to breathe and I start feeling light headed , also when working I am trying to be careful thinking about my work and safety I will forget to breathe and my wife said I start turning blue , the best way to help me stop feeling light headed when I am breathing is to drink gatorade, mixed with the powder with rich mixing .
And to avoid thinking about thins to much and stay away from crowd of people’s I do not know , I had to MRI scans with the dye they do not see any arteries that’s clogged with plaque and I’ve had two exams and they say nothing wrong with my eyes.
The only think left is to have me put on a heart monitor to see if I am trying to relax to much I am slowing my heart beat down to much and making me have dizzy spells . I am 57 years old male

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@randyinharmony Placing you on a 'loop recorder' for a couple of weeks, perhaps longer, might indeed catch pauses or other heart arrhythmia which causes you to lose proper blood pressure right when you need it most, such as shortly after standing after having sat for a period of time and relaxed, or even had a nap while seated. This is positional hypotension, or what is called 'orthostatic' hypotension.

If you'd rather not deal with doctors or drastic life-style changes, and if you'd like to reduce the risk of a head-splitting fall, or a fracture, you can try an exercise that involves quarter-or semi-standing, and then reseating yourself again, repeat this several times, to get pumped up again. Your system will respond in time, but it might take two or three pretend stands, and then sitting back down to get your heart to react so that on the third or fourth 'attempt' you really do continue to rise and you should be better and safer.

Note that this might not be a perfect solution for you. It would be best to get thoroughly assessed in case you need something more sophisticated and reliable in the way of an intervention, so please see a cardiologist.