black outs when standing up

Are you on pain meds as they can make you very dizzy? Possibly you are anemic, dehydrated or have low blood pressure? I think Jan can best answer this question for you, but I would definitely contact your surgeon about this.

Look up postural hypotension. It is pretty common, and there can be many causes. Until you sort that out, the key is to change positions from lying or sitting to standing very slowly.

Jan

When I was severely dehydrated that would happen to me. Yep, you need to figure out what this is before you really knock yourself out.

kathy

There is some sort of trick if I remember well...something like singing the words to a simple song (happy birthday for exaple...min 23 secs.) when changing positions...you have to move slowly and concentrate on first lowering your feet to the floor, then raising your body and then finally working to the standing position...the most dangerous changes in position are standing up after sitting on the toilet (we tend to think that because it hasn't been that long we can just pop up) and getting out of the bath (not only have you been sitting for a while but in hot water! and we are coming up from a lower level. You need to move yourself slowly onto your knees then sit on the edge of the tub and finally swing those legs over the side...then stand up really slowly while holding onto something)...keeping a stable chair at the side of the tub could help too, it gives you something to slide onto and a sort of handle to stablise yourself...
As to the causes it can be anything from dehydration as Kathy said to low blood pressure on through to a dzn other causes...the first order for me is to make yourself safe and then call your doctor for bloodwork and an apt...
Sharon
ps..how is your salt intake?

Thank you all for the responses. I definitely have to take it slow, I'm having these more and more. Dr has me getting blood work done this week. He says he thinks I might be anemic. I also thought about my salt levels coukd be low, I'm going to mention it to him.

Part of my daily regimen includes soaking in the bath to relieve some pain and pressure. O don't stand up anymore, that's for sure! I drain the bath low enough, do if I do pass out I won't drown, scary. I then climb out to a stool I put next to the bath.

I lost so much weight, when diagnosed on 2011 I weighed 157, right after my son was born. I now weigh 110 pounds and wearing size double 00 jeans. I can't seem to gain either since I still can't eat much and when I do, goes right through me.

Heidi