Originally Posted by Natalie8

The whole thing, however, was extremely overwhelming. I got an MRV/MRI test (the MRV looks at contrast going through your veins). He sat and talked to me and my husband for almost 2 hours. Both my lower jugular veins are occluded by about 90-95%. They are essentially pancaked flat. If you look at them layer by layer in flair cut pictures (slices) by the time you get to the bottom they virtually disappear on the screen. The upper left jugular (very high up) is also somewhat occluded. And there is some other vein high up on the left that looks not quite normal either (I can't remember what it is...near my sinus??)....
He also said I have extremely low blood pressure. My average is 98/58. So the blood is already not flowing well through my body and then with the occlusions I've got double the problems...When I wake up in the morning I feel like crap. I'm slow, brain dead, sluggish...it takes me 3-4 hours to really get going, especially mentally. I have mud for a brain until I "wake up" as I call it -- however, if I get up at 9:30 my brain really isn't firing on all cylinders until 1 or 2 pm. I start to feel better and better as the day goes on....It's almost like getting re-diagnosed again, looking at the scans of my screwy veins.