Should I seed medical help?

I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV!

I'm not an actor, but I play one on TV.

My guess is one of three things - 1) dehydration (reduces the amount of fluid in the inner ear and the brain interprets it as dizziness. 2) inner ear infection, or 3) chiropractic misalignment of your atlas or axis can frequently cause intense dizziness, especially when its not accompanied by nausea or chronic fatigue.

My advice would be to go see a non-western doctor first, then a chiropractor. Dehydration is cured by drinking water. Infections are 90% of the time cured by your body's white blood cells. Chiropractic has to manually be put in its place.

blood pressure ... 149 ... was that the diastolic or systolic ? if systolic ... nothing much wrong with that #

I have pretty much the same symptoms ... have had since '98, but I/we ( my doc and I) know the reasons.. mine is call positional vertigo resulting from the whiplash suffered in a MVA .... not much I can do about it ... learn to live with it.. hopefully yours is nothing more than an inner ear infection ... usually curable

If 149 is your top number, it's high. It isn't the highest I have ever seen, which is 208/164 IIRC, but it is an alarm to me to have to checked out further. I am/was suspecting orthostatic hypertension along with dehydration. Not getting enough water in your diet with raise your BP. Water follows salt. So an increased salt intake will suck the water out of your cells which leads to a drop in blood volume, so the heart rate and pressure go up to keep everything circulating..... There is many other things I can go on with, but I'll stop there.

Ranger50 wrote: If 149 is your top number, it's high. It isn't the highest I have ever seen, which is 208/164 IIRC, but it is an alarm to me to have to checked out further. I am/was suspecting orthostatic hypertension along with dehydration. Not getting enough water in your diet with raise your BP. Water follows salt. So an increased salt intake will suck the water out of your cells which leads to a drop in blood volume, so the heart rate and pressure go up to keep everything circulating..... There is many other things I can go on with, but I'll stop there.

Thanks Ranger, sounds like you have some medical training. Not only does that make you a very helpful person to have chiming in, but a prime defendant.

Oh and to finish what I was saying, orthostatic hypertension. Basically you move, say laying down to sitting up, without a rest and you get dizzy. You heart isn't being efficient pumping for the increased workload of moving. Think of a slipping clutch to a brand new one. Sure they both move the vehicle forward, but one isn't as efficient as the other and doesn't have a chance to keep up.

In reply to Ranger50:

I was in a 5 year long bp study that was looking into the effects of "high normal" blood pressure i.e. 140's over 80's

that's why I said that a systolic of 149 ( depending on what the diastolic is ) isn't all that bad

Go see the doc, please, need more years of telling these nay-sayers how much fun boost really is!

I get stuff like that if I have a cold or my allergies are acting up. Never been bad enough that I've gone to the doctor for it, but I guess it can't hurt.

wbjones wrote: In reply to Ranger50: I was in a 5 year long bp study that was looking into the effects of "high normal" blood pressure i.e. 140's over 80's that's why I said that a systolic of 149 ( depending on what the diastolic is ) isn't all that bad

IIRC, it was 149 over 83?
What do you think the chances are of a doc telling me I need a miata? I mean, if he wrote a script for it, could my wife REALLY get mad?

DrBoost wrote: IIRC, it was 149 over 83? What do you think the chances are of a doc telling me I need a miata? I mean, if he wrote a script for it, could my wife REALLY get mad?

If your resting systolic is over 140, that's hypertension and the usual remedy is blood pressure meds.

Could be benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV). Sometimes you can bust a few otoliths (small flakes of calcium) loose in the semi-circular canals and until they settle down, you're dizzy. Could be an othopedic problem of the neck (since there's a lot of proprioceptors around the atlas and axis), could be carotid artery occlusion (especially with end range rotation of the neck), could be...

Did ya ever see the doctor? A real doctor, I mean.

Ranger50 wrote: You heart isn't being efficient pumping for the increased workload of moving. Think of a slipping clutch to a brand new one.

Kudos for the automotive reference. You just compared an organ to a Raybestos part.