Wicked. I literally couldnt imagine this finding in my wildest dreams. But it makes perfect sense: My red blood cell amount is elevated, indicating that not enough oxygen is reaching the cells, so the body compensates for this with high blood pressure (probs due to endhothelial dysfunction..)
I will definitiely try some meds for this.
But in that context a question: if the blood pressure spike is the bodys response to dysfunction, wont treating the response be futile?
You still need to treat the reason why its doing this eg low blood volume. You could fix the BP hypertension spikes with drugs (badly swinging BP with it high spiking can put you at risk of heart failure) but you will still have issues dizziness, passouts, headaches, brain issues ..whatever symptoms you get due to low blood volume.
Things like adrenaline and nor adrenaline can be tested. Thou I have had one test within range with those (I must of stayed off my feet that day), the rest havent been (often too weird for labs to believe my results, its sad when ME results are being dismissed as the labs cant believe the readings are correct. I used to have the same issue when my BP was being taken, the BP monitors would be blamed!).
I got made to do that nor-adrenaline test over and over, I think it was done 3 times by 2 different labs before their was an acceptable result for them).
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The dysautonomia issues in ME/CFS should be far more studied as this is an area which can help prove this illness isnt "psychological" to the world. As far as the othostatic hypertension issue in ME/CFS which I believe affects about 30% of us, I dont think there has even ever been a ME/CFS study done on it. Are those who have this got a much higher death risk???
I think probably. Ive met on dysautonomia sites, two
non ME/CFS people with the same kind of BP dysfunction as what I have with the ME but they were healthy in other ways except due to what this BP dysfunction did to them ie both these people told me they had heart failure due to it. (one was in last stage(s) and they were both young.
One in mid? 50s I think other younger (late 30s?).. I cant fully remember now but they werent at all old (one was my age or younger then me at the time, this is years back, Im 43 now) and communicating with these two shocked me.
They both said their heart failure had developed cause they hadnt been able to find a doctor to treat the very high swinging BP so went untreated for many years and then it was too late, hearts were damaged. They were both deeply concerned about me.
Anyway, this is just one high risk ME subgroup which needs good studies done in.