Slight dizziness when standing up.

[Peakbog]

Hi folks. I have stable angina which was confirmed by stress tests 4 months ago. I am on Atrovastatin, aspirin, and Omeprazole. Now I am trying to keep active with walking to work and an exercise bike. I feel my general fitness level has improved but occasionally I have days where I have several occurrences of a dizziness or swimmy head when I stand up and walk a few steps. I was not like this before my diagnosis or before the medication. I try to keep hydrated but have turned to a much more healthy diet with far more veg, less red meat and very few carbs and sugar. Has anyone else had this issue and found a way to improve it? I was wondering if it was a side effect of the one or a combination of the drugs. Any help greatly appreciated. By the way my blood pressure is neither high or low.

Cheers

[Jinky07]

Watching replies.

Not in same drugs but also experience dizziness and swimming/cloudy head

[Prada47]

Hi Peakbog nice to meet you.

Not an expert on Medication but I can't see how you are getting dizzy spells from what you have listed, Aspirin is pretty standard and Omeprazole is normally to overcome the effect of Aspirin on the stomach. Atrovastatin is a pretty standard Statin. Did the Cardiologist who asked for the stress test not give you some idea of how he intended to move you forward ??

Best Regards

[Peakbog in reply to Prada47]

Thanks for your response. I have a visit to a Cardiologist soon. I was told that they would review my symptoms. They did not want to give me an angiogram at that time as they said it carries some risk and should only be done if they thought stents would likely be needed. Surprised by this as I thought they were pretty standard.

Am going to ask Cardiologist about dizziness but thought there may be others experiencing these symptoms on the same drugs so posted. Will feedback what cardiologist has to say.

Cheers

[Sususulio]

Not an expert either but I have found looking at the NICE guidance on medications interesting.

I am sure ramipril causes me problems although GP disagrees...... anyway here they are for omeprazole or all PPI’s - dizziness in there

bnfc.nice.org.uk/drug/omepr...

[Peakbog in reply to Sususulio]

Thank you for this. I have used PPI tablets for years for a hiatus hernia for years without this reaction, but maybe combined with the other tablets it is giving this. Will look at this sight in more detail now.

[Cat04]

I have dizziness standing for a while and also when getting up from sitting or lying. It's postural hypotension in my case. Staying well hydrated can help and getting up very carefully & slowly. My cardiologist told me to increase salt in my diet (yes, really) and to drink two glasses of water when I feel dizzy. He also said to drink 2 litres of water before 10am but did admit that is nearly impossible to do!

If you have a blood pressure machine at home try taking your BP as you stand up/feel dizzy to see if it drops. This can confirm diagnosis.

[Peakbog]

Hi Cat. Thanks for your response. Really helpful. Yes I have a blood pressure meter at home. I will give it a try. I will also hydrate more this week and see how it goes. I will report back. Cheers.

[DD13]

Hi I have found since not using my exercise bike, I'm not getting as dizzie as i was. In fact it was using the exercise bike that was the start of causing the fact my heart unknown to me had a problem. I only use it rarely now, walk instead. That is just a thought, to think about trying.

Regards Dee.

[Shoshov]

Hi I too am on the same meds as you and suffer from dizziness and fainting. I don’t have angina. If you get dizzy on standing up it could be POTS which is what I was diagnosed with after a week in hospital getting investigated. They said it’s when your heart rate increases over 30 points on standing. I’m having a loop recorder fitted on Thursday to try and get to bottom of it. Defo let your doctors know and get investigated. It’s very distressing. Good luck❤️shiona

[Peppa08 in reply to Shoshov]

What is the treatment x

[2stents]

Hi peaking

I have had angina for 20 years 2 stents fitted,

Both stents blocking Im not on same meds as you but very similar plus others. Been on them a few years started with dizzy nausea headaches 5 weeks ago, going to see Cardiolgist tomorrow I’ll let you know what he says.

[Hidden in reply to 2stents]

Good luck with your cardiologist

[2stents in reply to Hidden]

Thank you