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<blockquote data-quote="sledgegreen" data-source="post: 1172696" data-attributes="member: 222024"><p>I had an episode last year which I thought was a hypo, but which turned out to be low blood pressure. I had been monitoring my BP, but didn't realise how dramatically low it had been that day until I plotted the graphs a few days later (I wasn't monitoring BG levels at the time).</p><p></p><p>In Jan this year, I had a similar episode. This time I went home and checked my BP - it was low, and continued to fall over the next couple of hours, so I called 111. They sent me to the on-call GP at the local hospital, who did various tests and then told me to stop taking my BP meds (I was being treated with a cocktail of drugs for high BP) until I had seen my own GP. She told me to restart one drug, but not the others. My BP rose to shocking levels, so since then she has been adding additional drugs or adjusting doses each month, and my BP is now close to target.</p><p></p><p>I haven't had any similar episodes since then, so I think they were caused by my BP medication being stronger than was needed. The good news is that a couple of other nuisance symptoms cleared up as well, which had previously been attributed to Metformin.</p><p></p><p>The symptoms I had during these episodes were dizziness, confusion (I realised that I was having more difficulty than usual comparing prices whilst shopping) and fatigue.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sledgegreen, post: 1172696, member: 222024"] I had an episode last year which I thought was a hypo, but which turned out to be low blood pressure. I had been monitoring my BP, but didn't realise how dramatically low it had been that day until I plotted the graphs a few days later (I wasn't monitoring BG levels at the time). In Jan this year, I had a similar episode. This time I went home and checked my BP - it was low, and continued to fall over the next couple of hours, so I called 111. They sent me to the on-call GP at the local hospital, who did various tests and then told me to stop taking my BP meds (I was being treated with a cocktail of drugs for high BP) until I had seen my own GP. She told me to restart one drug, but not the others. My BP rose to shocking levels, so since then she has been adding additional drugs or adjusting doses each month, and my BP is now close to target. I haven't had any similar episodes since then, so I think they were caused by my BP medication being stronger than was needed. The good news is that a couple of other nuisance symptoms cleared up as well, which had previously been attributed to Metformin. The symptoms I had during these episodes were dizziness, confusion (I realised that I was having more difficulty than usual comparing prices whilst shopping) and fatigue. [/QUOTE]
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