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[Orange Wizard]

It also might be not bad, I used to do that from time to time

[TheBiggerFish]

Better safe than sorry.

[Orange Wizard]

Says you

[TheBiggerFish]

Indeed, says me.  So?  Advice is advice.

[Rolepgeek]

I'm gonna bring it up with my doc, but I know, more or less, the cause. Blood pressure adjustment lag when changing to a standing position. Only difference this time was how much it affected me. Passing out randomly is an issue; this seems more like a signal than anything else, and not too urgent of one.

[Arx]

Do you tend to be sedentary? I had a similar issue when I was spending a lot of time potatoing in one spot. I still have it sometimes, but less so. Getting more exercise helps quite a bit. I don't actually black out very often any more.

[Rolan7]

I passed out a few times when I was in my sedentary vegetarian semi-anorexic stage of college.  I remember one time I found myself on the floor, hearing my dad panicking over me, then gradually realized that I'd stood up too quickly to greet him.  I guess I'm lucky I never seriously hurt anything on the way down, just got some bruises.

Turned out I had low blood pressure.  Potassium salt basically cleared it up.  Eventually I started eating a more balanced diet (still mostly vegetarian, but with more fish and eggs.  And salt.)

[Amperzand]

Do you tend to be sedentary? I had a similar issue when I was spending a lot of time potatoing in one spot. I still have it sometimes, but less so. Getting more exercise helps quite a bit. I don't actually black out very often any more.

Can confirm.

[Rose]

I passed out a few times when I was in my sedentary vegetarian semi-anorexic stage of college.  I remember one time I found myself on the floor, hearing my dad panicking over me, then gradually realized that I'd stood up too quickly to greet him.  I guess I'm lucky I never seriously hurt anything on the way down, just got some bruises.

Turned out I had low blood pressure.  Potassium salt basically cleared it up.  Eventually I started eating a more balanced diet (still mostly vegetarian, but with more fish and eggs.  And salt.)

As somebody vegetarian from birth, this mystifies me.

[Steelmagic]

There was a cop car slowly driving through my apartment area. Made me a bit nervous, really, as I do look rather suspicious, but he seemed uninterested in me. He'd just stop at every sort of 4-way turn in the parking lot and wait there for a minute before continuing on to the next, slowly. Don't know why he was here.

[NJW2000]

I passed out a few times when I was in my sedentary vegetarian semi-anorexic stage of college.  I remember one time I found myself on the floor, hearing my dad panicking over me, then gradually realized that I'd stood up too quickly to greet him.  I guess I'm lucky I never seriously hurt anything on the way down, just got some bruises.

Turned out I had low blood pressure.  Potassium salt basically cleared it up.  Eventually I started eating a more balanced diet (still mostly vegetarian, but with more fish and eggs.  And salt.)

As somebody vegetarian from birth, this mystifies me.

I'd guess you're a bit better at it than he was.

[Orange Wizard]

As somebody vegetarian from birth, this mystifies me.

Basically, you need a variety of nutrients, and it's hard to get all of them from plants. Stuff like vitamin B12 is produced exclusively by animals.

[NJW2000]

And if you're a student who cooks for themselves and turned vegetarian recently... well, all the recent student vegetarians I know get stomach problems.

[Rose]

As somebody vegetarian from birth, this mystifies me.

Basically, you need a variety of nutrients, and it's hard to get all of them from plants. Stuff like vitamin B12 is produced exclusively by animals.

Yeah, but... I've never had issues? Like ever?

[Orange Wizard]

According to wikipedia, there's an 80% chance that you do