NMH

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Hi ,

I hope you see this. NMH is a condition where your brain sends the wrong

message to your heart. Instead of telling your heart to pump the blood

faster, it tells your heart to stop pumpong your blood. Therefore your

blood pressure crashes. On the tilt table test--the only way to diagnose

NMH, when my pulse hit 100, my pressure crashed to 40/30 and 40/unreadable.

Sometimes one will pass out and other times it will make you very

sick--fatigue, nausea, cramping, memory and cognitive deficits, headache,

and more. One episode of this can cause up to 72 hours of symtoms. The

symptoms begin before the blood pressure drops. People that have been

diagnosed with cfids have these episodes all day long. Hopkins

discovered the conection about 4 years or so ago. They continue to study

NMH and other autonomic problems associated with cfids and nmh. Things that

trigger an episode--any time your body produces adrenaline such as --after

eating, being in the heat, exercise, standing in one position, least amount

of anxiety or stress, allergic reactions, and many more. I hope this gives

you an idea, though I've given a very simple laymen's terms explanation.

This is the way my Cardiologist explained it to me.

Does thid help?

Maureen