Hi there.

I read your post with fascination because last week on HOUSE MD, they had a repeat of just such a medical case.

This young woman, well every time she stood up, she fainted. She was brought in with other symtoms and they ran every test in the book on her but everytime they thought they had the correct diagnosis, BAM, they found something else.

They had given her an MRI and found nothing. She stood up, and she fainted. No one could figure out why because MRI's were given to her when she was lying down. Everybody was puzzled.

So the doctor ran over and made her stand up, and boom, she fainted again, everybody went crazy and they made her lay down. Then the picked her up, and boom, she passed out again.

Then the doctor told everybody, "Stand her up", and he said "get a load of this". He put his hand on her kidney and pressed it a certain way and she revived.

It seemed that she had something called a FLOATING KIDNEY, and no one could find this because everytime she lay down, there was nothing to be seen.

So, and I'm no doctor, but if they can't find a reason why you are passing out while you are standing, why not look into what I've just written.

You have nothing to lose.

Just wanted to share.

Melody

Hi Addy! Welcome to NT!

What you describe about passing out when you stand sounds like what my neighbor lady does. She missed her own dear son's funeral b/c she passed out in the bathroom and it was 2 hours before they could revive her.

Not sure exactly what she is dxd with, but it has to do with her blood pressure dropping, like you described.

I wonder if Melody is on to something that could help you?

Hi Twinks:

In the episode of HOUSE, when she was standing and she fainted, and he put his hand on the right side of her body and he said "watch this", and he lifted it, (no one knew what he was doing), and he explained that when we are born, we are born with kidneys that are attached to our bodies in a certain way.

Well (in the episode), this young woman had had this kidney hanging by a blood vessel (it was hanging, it wasn't SET in her body like everybody else's kidney), and what caused her to faint, was that she was just married and they were carrying her up in a chair around the room, and she was bouncing around, and the kidney was dislodged or something, and she immediately fainted.

They brought her in to the hospital (lying down on a gurney of course), and everybody was trying to figure out why she fainted.

She didn't faint sitting in a chair, she didn't faint lying down.

Only when she stood. Then the doctor explained that when she stood, the floating kidney, cut off a blood supply (doctor speak, I don't understand that part of what he said), but it had SOMETHING TO DO WITH A DROP IN HER BLOOD PRESSURE, so she fainted. As soon as she sat down or laid down, her kidney went back into place, and she revived, the pulse went back and her pressure was back to normal. Most amazing diagnosis I have ever heard.

He then said 'prep her for surgery", and said 'the doctor will put your kidney back where it's supposed to be, and you'll be fine".

So she should DEFINITELY at least ask her doctor to look into this.

You never know.!!!