Posted by ed_uk2010 on February 5, 2015, at 7:03:53
In reply to Re: Starting Parnate after 15 yrs treatment-resistance » Robert_Burton_1621, posted by baseball55 on February 4, 2015, at 19:57:18
>....was surprised to discover, when the visiting nurse checked my BP, that it plunged when I stood up. I don't know. Maybe my body just adjusted itself to this. I no longer got dizzy.
Definitely, the body does adjust. The postural drop still occurs, but the brain adjusts so that it still functions normally in spite of the sudden drop. As a result you no longer get as dizzy. The phenomenon occurs in others forms of postural (orthostatic) hypotension too. After the condition has been present for a long time, it's often possible to patients with autonomic nervous system dysfunction to tolerate surprisingly large BP drops without symptoms.
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