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17 Things Only People With Crazy Low Blood Pressure Will Understand

Standing up just to sit back down.

1. Everything going black when you stand up happens pretty much everyday.

2. Nurses taking your blood pressure several times because it's so low they think it's a false reading.

3. Being told to eat MORE salt.

4. Feeling tired and fatigued on a whole different level.

5. Trying to give blood but it takes too long because your blood just dribbles out with barely any force behind it.

6. Then after you give blood you're super exhausted for two or three days.

7. Getting cold easily and often.

8. Especially your hands and feet.

9. Waking up to unquenchable thirst.

10. Being happy that low blood pressure could mean good longevity but also freaked out because you could never take beta blockers if you needed to.

11. Feeling dizzy more than you'd like.

12. Thinking you might have chronic fatigue but it turns out your blood pressure is just mad low.

13. Feeling like you're gonna faint on the reg.

14. Becoming the equivalent to a tranquilized bear on your period (if you have one).

15. Feeling like you have ADHD, but really it's your hypotension.

16. Basically feeling naturally high all the time.

17. It taking a long time and too many tests to realize it was your low blood pressure that caused all these things.