[cole12]

My daughter is a C6 Incomplete as of July 12, 2008 - we are being discharged from her current Rehab facility due to her low blood pressure. She has started walking and they are very very optimistic about her future ability to walk without any aides, however, she can't walk or stand due to her blood pressure dropping and passing out. She is on the highest dosages of bp meds including taking sudafed to boost her heart rate. We know about fluid intake, compression stockings, binder, wraps, etc. - we do them all and still she passes out when upright. Until she can get her bp stabalized she won't be able to return to the rehab facility because at this point she is ready for the locomat and other gait type therapy. The therapists all say that it is very rare for someone with as much movement and muscle to still be suffering from low bp. HELP !!

[noles1984]

I'm a low bp person compared to many quads. It may be that as time goes by her body becomes used to its changes and adapts.

[Scribbler]

When I read your post I looked up Sudafed, which is given for coughs andd colds; nothing to do with BP. Are you sure you've got the correct name?

I suffered with low BP, directly after eating; I'd just suddenly black out. I had a blood test and was found to have a salt deficientcy, so they suspected Addison's Desease but tests proved it wasn't.

My problem was solved by taking a 15ml tab of Ephedrine 30 minutes before eating; I've not had a problem since. Ephedrine is a stimulant; just Google it.

Good luck

[Trinity]

Sudafed contains pseudoephedrine, slightly different to ephedrine but it can increase your blood pressure, and works in a similar way.

[Trinity]

ok, I need to slightly correct what I said above! As I am suffering from a stinking cold at the moment I bought some sudafed, they have changed the active ingredient from pseudoephedrine to a drug called phenylephrine . This still, however, will have an effect in increasing blood pressure.

[Scribbler]

trinity, on Dec 30 2008, 09:27 PM, said:

ok, I need to slightly correct what I said above! As I am suffering from a stinking cold at the moment I bought some sudafed, they have changed the active ingredient from pseudoephedrine to a drug called phenylephrine . This still, however, will have an effect in increasing blood pressure.

Matron Trin knows best....