Joe,
That sounds like autonomic problems. Have they tested you for this recently?

Billye

Did your BP start at the low reading or drop to the lower reading? I assume you started at the lower reading as they automatically stop a stress test if your BP drops 10 points.

this was after the stress test was over and you rest for 15 minutes before getting the imaging done. I dont know what number they got me up to but after completing the test it was back down to 120/75 one minute later, which they told me is very good. They wanted to give me a chemical stress test because of pn but i wanted no part of that so did the treadmill. Autonomic PN no i havent had any of those tests, this never came up before. Maybe pulmonary cause? The day before my numbers were not good for pft.

We need Glenn's input on this one. I'm not sure what to tell you. I just know that they are watching my blood pressure because it dips and rises. I'm currently taking lisinopril for blood pressure, but it has to be adjusted periodically.

Billye

they dont know what to tell me either...ideopathic chest pains, at least they didnt try to say it was an anxiety attack. I was joking around with my kids at the time...no stress no anxiety

Wow i'm glad that turned out ok,there are a million reasons for that..
You want a big box of chocts and everybody forgot..Hey Joe no more,
why???Because we like you... hugs to all Sue

Tony you called in sick here sometime ago hope your feeling a wee bit
better...

Glad you are okay, Hey Joe. Same thing happened to my husband about a year ago. Turned out the chest pains responded to treatment for reflux -- indigestion as it used to be known, I guess. Prilosec takes care of it for him.

thats one of the things im covering.....glad that your husband was ok

--that one can get sudden transient dizziness, shortness of breath, sudden hypertension (or hypotension)--and yes, anxiety/panic attacks and acid reflux are among them (as is reactive hypoglycemia)--that it's hard to speculate. But, knowing something about your history, Joe, it may not be a bad idea to have some further autonomic testing done; you wouldn't be the first neuropathy sufferer to get some out of the blue autonomic problem.

Most of our autonomic functions are controlled through smaller, lightly myelinated/unmyelinated nerve fibers (though there is, of course, a central brain/feedback component to it all--and it's particularly hard to trace just where weird blood pressure readings are originating). I can't remember whether you've ever had the Valsalva tilt table or sudomotor axon relfex testing . . .

no i havent, im going to look into it thanks