Does anyone else with E.T experience low blood pressure, nausea and dizzyness after flying abroad?

[Swede]

Hello,

Do you mean it is the actual flying or being abroad that is the cause?

I don't react to flying, whether it is domestic or international and I don't have any other problems when abroad. In fact I feel much better when abroad than here in UK....

Sometimes I suffer from dizziness but it is random and not connected with travelling, for me.

Maybe it has something to do with your ears if it is caused by the flying?

[Hidden in reply to Swede]

Hi Swede,(great name!!) Yes I mean actual plane journeys. Most trips I take, then 24hrs and I'm feeling dreadful.My ears are fine no problems there.Thanks for your reply, very rusty and new to emailing.

[sussexgirl]

Hi

Traditionally I have low blood pressure, though it now appears to be on the low side of normal. I have suffered from dizzy spells on and off for many years.

I haven't flown since i've been diagnosed, but I did find that being at altitude made me feel really horrible, sick, dizzy and apparently I looked v pale. It took me a good 24 hours to recover, but this all happened while walking up Snowdon. I put it down to the altitude and my ET, but when I asked my consultant about it, but he said I was just having an off day and was nothing to do with my ET!

[Hidden in reply to sussexgirl]

Hi, I can really relate to how you felt, I feel there is a link with our E.T, it's so typical of these consultants to assume there's no link and we are just having a bad day, especially when our bad days are due to E.T!!! I also have low blood pressure like yourself, I currently take propanalol which apparently lowers the blood pressure but on these occasions of being in a plane it dips very low.

Good to hear from you , thank you.

[Swede]

Hello,

I have all my life had low blood pressure and I am now on Propranolol.

When I questioned the Doctor about this, his answer was that for me it wouldn't make my blood pressure any lower, just preventing it from going up...which is good thinking.

I can't say that I have had any more problems with low blood pressure after starting to take the medication. Before I had problems when quickly standing up or so but it is the same now.

What I did have just a few years before I became ill (or diagnosed) was a terrible terrible headache. Cluster (or suicide-)migraine as it is called. That is totally gone anyway!

If I have mentioned it before I am not sure, but I sometimes feel that I have more side effects from the medication that the actual disease!

PS. Swede refers to the country not the root vegetable...