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Sudden drop in blood pressure

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mugalug · 28/10/2018 19:52

Just wondering if anyone knew the reason behind a dramatic and instant drop in blood pressure.

I went in for monitoring yesterday as had awful back ache (I'm 32 weeks). As I was laying down on the bench the midwife accidentally made me fall backwards as she let the handle go as the recliner was going down and I ended up upside down.

I thought I was ok and we laughed about it. I was hooked up to the monitors and everything was perfect including my blood pressure.

Midwife left the room and 2 minutes later I nearly fainted and felt awful. She checked my blood pressure and it had dropped in the space of 5 minutes to 80/40. Would the shock of the bench make this happen?

They kept me in for 8 hours for monitoring and am now home but feel absolutely awful since. Can't seem to regain any energy.

Anyone got any thoughts? And is low blood pressure dangerous?

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Stephisaur · 28/10/2018 21:05

I’m not an expert, but it’s something to do with lying down I think.

I have to go for a lot of scans and the sonographers keep checking that I’m not getting lightheaded when I’m more reclined. I would assume that it’s related to the blood pressure thing x

mugalug · 29/10/2018 09:30

Interesting! Yeah I literally went from perfect blood pressure to really low in the space of a few minutes. Was scary!

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