This may sound stupid (and this is not something new but this has been happening for years), and only if I blow my nose hard) but I notice that if I blow my nose really hard, I have to hold on to the wall because either the room looks like it's moving or everything turns dark for a moment or two.
I have learned to NOT BLOW MY NOSE HARD. And this never happens if I sneeze but when I forget and blow my nose hard, (well, this just happened five minutes ago), and I knew what was happening, so I just held on to the wall, and said to myself, "okay, you'll be fine in 30 seconds and I was".

Also, if I am bending down (I was glue gunning a tv co-axial cable to my baseboard) and I got up quickly, it was like I almost passed out. I was fine in 30 seconds. I immediately took my blood pressure (with the wrist cuff thing and it said 137/72 and my pulse was 62. This wrist cuff thing is never accurate, my blood pressure at every doctor visit is usually 100/59 because I'm on zestoretic 20/25 and the specialists at Cornell seem to prefer this because I'm on a blood pressure protocol and they LOVE when my pressure reads like that.

I use light salt on my foods. Maybe I used too much on my grilled chicken over lettuce and tomatoes for lunch. I don't know.

I felt perfectly fine a few moments later. I feel fine now. I am trying to drink more liquids but that takes some getting used to. I'm not doing great in that department. I forget to drink when I should be drinking my water.

My sister in law says this always happens to her when she gets out of bed fast or gets up out of a chair too fast. This never happens to me when I get up out of bed or get up too fast.

Only when I blow my nose hard, or just now when I bent down to glue gun the stuff and got up fast.

So I guess if I'm bending down glue gunning something on the floor, I can't get up fast and I have to stop blowing my nose hard right?

But why would that happen when I blow my nose hard.

I just got all blood tests back and I'm perfectly fine, thank goodness for that (except for the uric acid thing and Dr. Fred said I was dehydrated).

This nose blowing thing has been doing that for as long as I can remember so this is not a new thing. You'd think I would remember to blow gently now wouldn't you?

Anybody care to hazard a guess?

Thanks, mel