Feel like I’m going to pass out

[Ymail65]

Hi

RamiCan any one help

I had key hole surgery to repair a leaky valve last July

I’m on ramipril. Furosemide atorvastatin

And biossopol

But still

Get the feeling I’m going to pass out

Any one else suffer this

[Andyman]

When you say pass out you mean you get dizzy when you stand up or feel this in bed or sitting watching TV or out walking??? I get dizzy if I stand up too fast. Its because my heart beat is low and I get up faster than the blood can pump to my head. I can faint sometimes. We have helped this by Reducing Ramipril and taking it at night instead of the morning. Ramipril can make you dizzy. Also I am trying to get up from sitting slower so that my heart can get to my head in time.

[Ymail65 in reply to Andyman]

Hi first of all

Thanks for replying

It seems to be when I’m out

Mostly in shopping malls

I think it’s something to do with the artificial lighting

I just seem to say to whom I am with I’m going and have to clutch onto them

It feels like vertigo

My gp only tells me to go to A e

When this happens

I have been treated for a stroke

But luckily have not had one x

[Andyman in reply to Ymail65]

Wow your GPS a great help isnt he. So keep going to A&E and when there insist that a long term plan is put together to help you. Be tough don't let them fob you off.

[Ymail65 in reply to Andyman]

Thanks Andy good advice xx

[Goldfish7]

Hi Ymail65, I have PAF and am on bisoprolol as well as some blood pressure meds (indapamide and Candesartan). I frequently feel faint/dizzy, have chest pains and breathless when walking which I think is related to the bisoprolol which I don't tolerate well. I'm unsure if any more minor arrhythmias contribute to this when my heart is 'under stress' walking. I may also have a heart 'murmur' when my heart beat gets over 100bpm but this appears to not have been diagnosed clinically yet by my specialists but to have been commented on by other medics at times..

To try to keep up walking exercise - I've just learned to choose local routes that enable me to get home quickly if necessary (or at worst for family to be able to come out and 'rescue' me easily) and which provide places for me to sit down or 'lean' on objects until the faint/dizzy spell passes.

If going further afield I tend to always go with someone which feels pretty bad as I don't like the feeling of having to rely on a 'babysitter'.

I'm currently on the lowest dose of Bisoprolol 1.25mg and still experiencing unpleasant side effects from it re. exercise, sleep, fatigue, etc.