Wife still in hospital. CTs, MRI, EKG, US all negative for any clots or embolisms. Doctors still aren’t sure what’s causing it- best working guess so far is POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome) which is an excessively reduced amount of blood returning to the heart when moving from laying to sitting to standing. BP and heart rate still spiking anytime she has to get up. Pumping fluids and electrolytes and looking into starting a beta blocker until her OBGYN can assess hormone levels. Heart monitor hooked up for next cpl weeks. Home/bed rest until then. Not a whole lot of info or treatment for it so we just have to wait and see for now. Original post below: https://greatawakening.win/p/16ami5oRMv/wife-in-hospital-help/
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Continued prayers for your wife. Definitely glad she made it back, at the time it sounded very dire. But you're clearly not out of the woods yet, so prayers for a full recovery.
And an anecdotal question: does your family have a low salt diet? I and family members have had a problem of feeling faint (and rarely, actually fainting) when getting up quickly from sitting to standing. Problem was cured by increasing salt in the diet. My understanding is that salt is instrumental in getting your heart to respond promptly to needed changes in circulation rate. Low salt can mean that the heart takes a longer time to adjust, causing problems like what you're describing. Kind of like how a bad transmission makes the engine work too hard. If that's been going on for a long time it might have damaged the heart. Either way, more salt could be part of the solution. Obviously do your research. Hope that helps.