Postnocturnal Preprandial Vertigo? (Dizziness Before Breakfast?)

[5***@gmail.com]

(Yes, I'm making fun of medical jargon.)

If you suffer from dizziness before breakfast when you stand up, especially if you are on a blood pressure medication, I would suggest that you display symptoms of transient hypoglycemia, and I would recommend that you should immediately sit or lie down and that you should then eat the sugary cookie that you have thoughtfully kept in a pocket for such an emergency.

Certain modern medications for hypertension, whose action I believe I understand, are associated with dizziness. Their action can interrupt the supply of glucose to the brain temporarily when you stand up, and the effect can be exaggerated in the presence of fasting glucose levels, before you have eaten anything in the morning. The situation can be prevented by consuming a sugary cookie before getting out of bed.

[Joan F (MI)]

Or it could be orthostatic hypotension, the presence of inadequate blood
pressure when one assumes the standing position after being seated or
recumbent. The cure for this is to sit up for a bit before standing, and
get up slowly until your BP stabilizes.

***@gmail.com wrote:
| (Yes, I'm making fun of medical jargon.)
|
| If you suffer from dizziness before breakfast when you stand up,
| especially if you are on a blood pressure medication, I would suggest
| that you display symptoms of transient hypoglycemia, and I would
| recommend that you should immediately sit or lie down and that you
| should then eat the sugary cookie that you have thoughtfully kept in
| a pocket for such an emergency.
|
| Certain modern medications for hypertension, whose action I believe I
| understand, are associated with dizziness. Their action can interrupt
| the supply of glucose to the brain temporarily when you stand up, and
| the effect can be exaggerated in the presence of fasting glucose
| levels, before you have eaten anything in the morning. The situation
| can be prevented by consuming a sugary cookie before getting out of
| bed.

[5***@gmail.com]

Good morning, Joan. It's good to see that there's someone out there who's interested in medicine. One's health is a 'senior issue' after all.

Post by Joan F (MI)
Or it could be orthostatic hypotension, the presence of inadequate blood
pressure when one assumes the standing position after being seated or
recumbent. The cure for this is to sit up for a bit before standing, and
get up slowly until your BP stabilizes.

[toci]

Post by 5***@gmail.com
Good morning, Joan. It's good to see that there's someone out there who's interested in medicine. One's health is a 'senior issue' after all.

Post by Joan F (MI)
Or it could be orthostatic hypotension, the presence of inadequate blood
pressure when one assumes the standing position after being seated or
recumbent. The cure for this is to sit up for a bit before standing, and
get up slowly until your BP stabilizes.

I can't get up too slowly or I don't get to the toilet on time. I definitely wait till morning before I take my 24 hour insulin. Toci

[5***@gmail.com]

I believe that Joan and Toci are both right. You don't want to fall down and break a bone in your haste to get to the bathroom. Toci seems to have experienced dizziness before breakfast and has learned to avoid it by beginning her (?) course of insulin after she has gotten up in the morning and perhaps has had a bite to eat.

At one time I was experimenting with cinnamon tea to lower my blood sugar, and all was going well until I tried using McKesson's 'gourmet' Saigon Cinnamon. I began getting so dizzy when I got up in the morning that I staggered around the room and banged into the wall. After a few days I began to suspect the cinnamon. Sure enough, the dizziness stopped when I stopped using the cinnamon.

Post by toci

Post by Joan F (MI)
Or it could be orthostatic hypotension, the presence of inadequate blood
pressure when one assumes the standing position after being seated or
recumbent. The cure for this is to sit up for a bit before standing, and
get up slowly until your BP stabilizes.

I can't get up too slowly or I don't get to the toilet on time.
I definitely wait till morning before I take my 24 hour insulin. Toci

[ctowers]

A change in cinnamon intake could require an adjustment to the amount of
insulin a diabetic needs.
http://www.webmd.com/diabetes/cinnamon-and-benefits-for-diabetes

Post by 5***@gmail.com
I believe that Joan and Toci are both right. You don't want to fall down and break a bone in your haste to get to the bathroom. Toci seems to have experienced dizziness before breakfast and has learned to avoid it by beginning her (?) course of insulin after she has gotten up in the morning and perhaps has had a bite to eat.
At one time I was experimenting with cinnamon tea to lower my blood sugar, and all was going well until I tried using McKesson's 'gourmet' Saigon Cinnamon. I began getting so dizzy when I got up in the morning that I staggered around the room and banged into the wall. After a few days I began to suspect the cinnamon. Sure enough, the dizziness stopped when I stopped using the cinnamon.

Post by toci

Post by Joan F (MI)
Or it could be orthostatic hypotension, the presence of inadequate blood
pressure when one assumes the standing position after being seated or
recumbent. The cure for this is to sit up for a bit before standing, and
get up slowly until your BP stabilizes.

I can't get up too slowly or I don't get to the toilet on time.
I definitely wait till morning before I take my 24 hour insulin. Toci

[5***@gmail.com]

Post by ctowers
A change in cinnamon intake could require an adjustment to the amount of
insulin a diabetic needs.
http://www.webmd.com/diabetes/cinnamon-and-benefits-for-diabetes

I'm sure you're right. I wasn't on any medication while I was trying my cinnamon tea.

A chemist named Anderson who worked for the Department of Agriculture in Maryland was in charge of a study to see what effect different foods had on blood sugar levels. Someone tried a piece of apple pie and was surprised when his blood sugar went down, instead of up. The researchers decided that one of the spices used in the pie might be the cause. They isolated the spice to cinnamon and announced, erroneously, that had found the component in cinnamon that lowered the blood sugar. That must have been embarrassing. Later a lady researcher from China identified the component as a type A polyphenol, and the USDA patented it (so no one else could monopolize its use commercially, according to a friend in the USDA) and named it Cinnulin PF. The purity of Cinnulin PF is guaranteed for research use and it is is available for purchase.

I followed Anderson's recommendations for making a cinnamon tea, and I brought my hemoglobin A1C down to something like 6.1. I discontinued the cinnamon after my blood sugar shot up while I was waiting for surgery in a hospital and they had to treat me with insulin injections. I learned later that this reaction is well known and is referred to as 'stress diabetes' or 'stress hyperglycemia'. Since then I have followed the research on the relationship between stress and hyperglycemia (high blood sugar).