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From: Marti Fuccy
A couple of weeks before Christmas, 2003 I had the same experience as most of your other patients. The day I fainted was almost exactly 7 years after another fainting experience. I had worked out in the morning, had breakfast, but little lunch and then a late dinner with a glass of wine and a margarita, followed by 2 small pieces of fudge. About an hour later I fell asleep for about l/2 hour, got up and felt faint. I headed for a bathroom, but fainted outside, got up, fainted again. My husband took me to emergency hospital where I spent the next 3 days and had an extensive exam, the last one being a tilt test. After 13 minutes on the tilt table my blood pressure dropped to 58 over 39. I now take lopressor, l/2 pill twice daily. My concern is that my blood pressure is very low some days, (106 over 62, etc.). A doctor questioned why I was on "blood pressure" pills since I had low pressure to begin with. The doctor who prescribed the drug said it would prevent the fainting episodes. What do you think? Thank you. Marti