This morning, around seven thirty, I woke up, opened my eyes and realised that the room was spinning wildly. I thought, “You’re imagining things!”, opened my eyes again and knew that it wasn’t my imagination.
I stood up and felt really dizzy and nauseous as well. I staggered to the loo holding on to the walls on both sides of the corridor and thought I was going to be sick. I was so dizzy I couldn’t stand up. I couldn’t kneel because of my knee ops (the fake knees press on the skin from the inside and could break!) I thought, “If I sit on the toilet, where can I vomit without making a terrible mess?”
All this time I had been rather vocal about how I was feeling, using a few choice swear words, which must have got through to Julian who was still in bed. He asked me if I needed anything so I asked him to bring me the bin from the bathroom but to take out the rubbish bag first (!) He did, I sat. Nothing much happened so I went back to bed. I took my temperature (35.5) and my blood pressure (62/45!) and soon went back to sleep.
All the time I was thinking the worst, of course, COVID 19!
When I woke up it was half past eleven and I was not dizzy, nor feeling sick, nor coughing. I got up, had breakfast, had a shower, ate lunch and am okay. What was it? I don’t know but now, every time I feel strange or headachy, I will immediately begin to worry – I’m over 70 and I’m gonna die! (I know, it’s pretty inevitable anyway but I don’t want it to be too soon!)
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This story reminds me of my sister, Judy, who was frightened her whole life that she had cancer. She would consult the family medical dictionary (quite an old one) or go to the library, which was handily across the road, to have a look at their more up-to-date encyclopaedia of medicine. She once told me that she had been through the entire encyclopaedia and found she had every type of cancer except any cancer of the male genitalia!
Sadly, she died of a squamous cell cancer when she was a very young 45.
White Haired Woman 
Your blood pressure was really, really low. Such low blood pressure causes people to become dizzy. Drinking a little bit of salt water, specially black salt should increase the bp but not much can be taken. Just a little bit.
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Thanks so much, Omar. I knew my bp was ridiculously low and it did go up after I had slept again. I’ll remember the salt water if it happens again. (I have no black salt but I do have pink!)
How is Bangladesh doing with the pandemic. I hope you and your family are well.
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Thank you so much, Omar. My next bp reading, a couple of hours later, was much more normal. I’ll remember about the salt water in case I get that again.
How is Bangladesh doing in the pandemic? I hope you and your family are well.
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I’ve just written a reply, but looks like it was in the wrong box!! I hope that you’ve fully recovered now Candy. I know what a horrible feeling dizziness is and used to suffer from it quite badly with Meniers, and once when I’d drunk too many cocktails!??xx
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Thanks, Andrea. Apparently, it was very low blood pressure that made me so dizzy and that was probably caused by being dehydrated. I’m just having a drink now and will have several others before bed (non-alcoholic, I hasten to add!)😁 With luck, lockdown won’t be too much longer or we can meet in a socially distanced manner and have a walk. X
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