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I have low blood pressure and am fairly tall so this happens most times I get up. Some times I black out completely and hit the deck.
A doctor said it's a good thing because by the time I'm old, my blood pressure will be like a normal adult and risk of stroke will be basically nothing. I just got to make it there without splitting my head open.
If your heart bpm increases by 20 when standing, get checked for POTS. This is not normally
Yeah, that gets done every so often in my check ups. Usually an "in case we missed it last time" thing.
Dunno why someone downvoted you; POTS is common and one of the key symptoms is black outs getting up too quickly. It's kinda like that with and fatigue or dizziness/balance, you get checked.
I always remove my own default upvote because I'm weird like that. I like things starting at 0