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A couple of weeks ago, I woke up on a Saturday, stood up and felt really dizzy. I went to work on Monday, feeling a little lightheaded. Went to work out at lunch, and got really dizzy doing heavy dumbbell bench presses. Two sets was all I could do, and almost couldn't walk back to the locker room. Had to leave work early that day because the extreme dizziness stayed with me.
So, two weeks later, I am still a little dizzy when I wake up in the morning. And I still get a little dizzy while doing DB benches. Yesterday, 3 reps into a set a five (inclined), with 95# DBs, I get a little dizzy, but it passes by rep 5.
3 weeks ago, I had a complete physical. BP was a little high, 140/80. Blood test was normal, (glucose and A1C), EKG was normal. I monitor my BP and it's consistent.
No issues doing anything else: mil presses, squats, chins, deadlifts, or whatever. So why the slight dizziness at rep 3?
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This sounds like it might be vertigo - when the crystals in your inner ear get out of place and you can't balance. (I know that sounds like witchcraft! It's not).
Google positional vertigo and see if it sounds like what you're experiencing.
This sounds like it might be vertigo - when the crystals in your inner ear get out of place and you can't balance. (I know that sounds like witchcraft! It's not).
Dramamine helps with the symptoms. Also consider seeing a chiropractor. I had vertigo earlier this year. I missed work for a week and was stuck in bed, until it finally went away. I could not drive, or walk without falling over.
It's not vertigo. Scratch that off your book.
Dizziness related to quick body change position, usually from supine to prone, is called orthostatic collapse. Collapse as iin - some folks may literally fall down. Sudden body change position is not accommodated by vascular system, less blood is sent to the brain, resulting in that sensation. It can be minor to severe.
The only specialist that will check on this is cardiologist. Something ain't right with either your heart or vascular.
Unfortunately, I know first hand. I learned to stage standing up.
As of 140/80 BP.
If you were a serious exerciser, you likely to have what is called physiological hypertension. Like I do. About same numbers. For folks that rutinely exercise for years, BP is normally heightened. The pump simply works better.
I had this experience just a few months ago. It was only when I would lie down in bed, get up from bed, or sometimes when standing from a sitting position. I went to a physical therapist who put me through the Epley maneuver in two separate appointments, and it was gone. I know that it is much worse for some people.
They can also teach you how to do it to yourself because for some people it lingers and is extremely unpleasant. I would never go to a chiropractor for this because from what I have been able to determine it is not caused by a "subluxation of the spine", which is the basis for what chiropractors claim they can cure.
For the OP's concern I would suggest going back to a doctor. I'm not a doctor, but this doesn't sound like a typical presentation of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. In addition, since lifting heavy weights in certain position seems to bring it on it makes me wonder if those lifts are somehow compressing or interfering with oxygen to the brain. That's probably what I would be asking my doctor.
Good luck. I know this can be pretty unpleasant and disabling for some people.
I'll describe vertigo for you.
You get up from bed with all good intentions to go straight through the bathroom door to the toilet.
You end up on the floor to the left or right of your intended route, with entire room spinning like hell around you.
It is OK as far as you keep your head horizontal but any attempts to get up will literally knock you down again. Nausea.
THAT is vertigo.
It could be vertigo, or it could be some kind of low blood pressure situation (I've had both)--keep track of when exactly you have symptoms, what they are, and for how long and take that to your doctor.
It's not vertigo. Scratch that off your book.
Dizziness related to quick body change position, usually from supine to prone, is called orthostatic collapse. Collapse as iin - some folks may literally fall down. Sudden body change position is not accommodated by vascular system, less blood is sent to the brain, resulting in that sensation. It can be minor to severe.
I am extremely thin and fit with quite low BP (105/65 on average), but I had the most frightening episode of that about three years ago. I was sitting on the garage floor, waxing my car, when I leaned under the front bumper to make sure I hadn't missed a spot. When I leaned back up, the entire world was violently spinning and I was almost nauseous. I immediately diagnosed what had happened on Dr. Google. Weirdly, a tile guy came to our house the next day and, out of the blue, described exactly the same experience. It has never happened before or since. I have often almost occasionally blacked out when I stand up, going back to childhood, but this has always been attributed to BP and allergies. The problem with Dr. Google is, there is are no medical symptoms, including hitting your thumb with a hammer, for which the list of possibilities do not include "brain tumor" or some other form of cancer.
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