What would cause a sudden, extreme drop in blood pressure? (doctor, heart)

[trixie11]

Starting somewhere around 140/90 and bottoming out around 70/50 - accompanied by racing heart, being really out of breath / gasping for air, light-headed, dizzy and nauseous. All happening within the span of about 30 minutes.

[Loriact]

I would get to a doctor STAT. It sounds heart related.

[Parnassia]

Originally Posted by Loriact

I would get to a doctor STAT. It sounds heart related.

Agree. This isn't something an anonymous web forum of non-professionals should be speculating about.

[mike1003]

Originally Posted by trixie11

Starting somewhere around 140/90 and bottoming out around 70/50 - accompanied by racing heart, being really out of breath / gasping for air, light-headed, dizzy and nauseous. All happening within the span of about 30 minutes.

OMG! Why waste time posting this as a question? You should have called 911!!!!!!!!!!!


If you didn't GET TO A DOCTOR NOW!

[Jill_Schramm]

Did you get to a doctor?

I had something like this happen to me completely out of the blue when I was in my mid-30s. I got out of bed in the morning and basically fell on the floor feeling like DOOM. Couldn’t get up off the floor, felt nauseous, browning out, etc. I got my husband to take me to the ER where they found nothing at all, except that I was constipated?!?! I really don’t think that was it.

Anyway, now more than twenty years later, I get random episodes of supraventricular tachycardia and when it gets really bad, it feels somewhat like that episode, although not that bad.

[Arktikos]

How old are you, Trixie, and what were you doing when this occurred? You should probably borrow a holter monitor from a doctor for a few days to check out your heart rhythm.