Light Headed when getting up

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Hey guys,

I'm new to the forum and I'm not sure if this is the right area to post in but here it goes....

I did a search and didn't find much but I may have been using the wrong search terms. My issue is that I am a cadet in a state highway patrol school. This school is much like a Marine Corps bootcamp but worse so you can imagine that it's pretty tough. Especially the PT.

I've been training for over a year before school started. We started 7 weeks ago and have 23 more to go. We PT every morning at 0500 for about 1.5 hours. The PT consists of 4 sets of 15 pushups, 20 situps, 20 back extensions and 15 leg lifts. After this, you do about 100 jumping jacks, and then you run 2 miles. Sometimes we're doing speed work and sometimes not. Either way, I have lost about 80 lbs over the past year and I'm right at 205 being 6'4. The academy has 3 square meals a day and we are required to drink a certain amount of water etc etc. The work is only going to get harder as the school goes along. Even though it hurts like heck and you really have to work through it, I have been doing well and improving.

However, I have noticed that every time I get up out of a chair or from the desk during classroom time, I'm getting light headed for about 20 seconds or so before it clears out and then I am fine. My resting heart rate is about 55 and my blood pressure is about 110/65 or so.

I'm just wondering if you guys have experienced this and if so, how did you clear it up? Should I go see the doc this week during school? I'm a little concerned about it because it has been happening a lot since I started school.

Thanks guys!
 
do your eyes black out and do you feel any pains in your head?
 
Check 'postural hypotension' and do some reading on it. I think that is a big part of the problem. Get in to see your doctor and ask him to check your bp to see if this is the problem then you can work at why you are getting it so frequently.
 
Orthostatic?

Sounds like you may be orthostatic at times. In the hospital, patients that are know for having this will have their blood pressure checked in lying, seated, and again in standing to evaluate drops in b/p.

Here's a quick definition from wikpedia:

Orthostatic hypotension (also known as postural hypotension and, colloquially, as head rush) is a sudden fall in blood pressure, typically greater than 20/10 mm Hg, that occurs when a person assumes a standing position.

Orthostatic hypotension - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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light headed

Hey Cadet,

I have had that same problem for a long time. It will probably get worse the better in shape you get. You will need to get a Stress Echo Cardio Gram done to verify everything is perfect with your heart.
Here is my story; I have a low resting rate 48-54. BP is 110/60 most of the time. I cycle a lot and even more when I am racing. With me, its turns out that when I stand up there is a slight delay before my heart rate increases causing me to be light headed. Sometimes it is really bad. Anyway, now that I know, I just get up a bit slower.

Sometimes it sucks to be in shape.
 
I have the same issue, though it's mostly confined to ~2 hours after I exercise, or(to a lesser extent) when I first get out of bed in the morning. My resting BP tends to be a little on the low side(Sometimes as low as 100/60) to start with, which probably doesn't help.

Does this mostly happen in the morning hours after your exercise? Or all day?
 
me and dad have the same issue and its basically where your heart is almost too efficient so it has a small delay but is enough for the oxygen flow to your brain to be smaller, which causes the issue. Though be careful because ive heard of something that had it so bad after the swim segment in a triathlon that he threw up :(
 
I thought I was alone in this- wow- I thought it was just an odd thing I had or me over-reacting or imagining it all- or at worse to show my fitness was not what I thought it was, thankyou to everyone above for some pointers!

I get head rushes quite often, not all the time like others above but they come along in phases- I'dd go through a week with them and then the next week they are fine. I have learnt to mask them and as I am already uncoorindated they just fit the clumsiness aura I seem to have created for myself. Endearing maybe but irritating- very! if I had money for evrytimg I knocked something over or tripped under my own footing whilst trying to walk, I'd not have needed to enter the lottery last night!

Is there any way out of them? or is it just about preparing and trying to be careful?

I exercise quite a bit and have bettered my resting heart rate after exercise resting but a year ago it was about 54, now its about 65 so think my fitness has helped? shame it doesn't always help with the head rushes- unless I'm working out every day the lower heart rate and head rushes are back, or back in the 6-8 hours from when I get up to before I start a workout.

I just wondered if anyone had gotten to grips with this yet?
 
You can stand with all of those trainings cadet?Nice job keep it up!

Goodluck,
John
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