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Read more: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/low-blood-pressure/symptoms-causes/syc-20355465
TIL When you stand, your body compensates for gravity by constricting blood vessels, ensuring that enough blood returns to your brain. In people with orthostatic hypotension, this mechanism fails and their blood pressure drops, leading to dizziness, lightheadedness, blurred vision and fainting.
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Yup, and the tilt table test they do to diagnose OH feels like you’re going to die.
Also known as POTS and common in people with dysautonomia like me.