Lightheadedness with BM urges

[grambuldog]

I have been experiencing lightheadedness, very light that coincide with bm urges. I feel better if I can completly eliminate. My stool is ussualy soft. Along with this from time to time is a pounding heart/pulse, palpitations that my doc says are not the "dangerouse kind". I have had an endoscopy, a colonoscopy, and a 24 hour heart monitor. all normal with the exception of about 10 skipped heart beats per hour. My primary doc says we'll watch the palpitations and the GI doc says to eat more fiber. I am not taking any drugs, perscription or not.

I have been having this lightheaded feeling with BM urges for a long time now and hate to say I wish I could be diagnosed with something!
I eat pretty well, veggies, meat eggs, no fast food, no soda and limited dairy. I smoke cigars (3-6 a week) and my alcohol consumtion is beer 1-2 a night. I have stopped with the beer to see if this would help and i can't say it does. I do understand that cutting out alcohole and tobacco 100% would help but I din't think it is the cause.




This discussion is related to chronic lightheadedness and upset stomach.

[assalyn]

I have the same problem. The lightheadedness comes before the straining. If able to eliminate then lightheadedness clears up.

[boron]

It goes like this: when you strain, tonus of your parasymphatetic nerves is increased, what causes arterial dilatation, so your blood pressure falls. Heart reacts on this with increased frequency and power of every beat.

The cause may be over-reactivity of your autonomic nerve system, this could be psycho-organic related.

But other causes are possible:
- low blood pressure.
- dehydration. The sign of appropriate hydratioj is urinating at least twice a day, and you should excrete at least 200 ml of the first morning urine. If you're dehydrated, yopu should drink more - water.
- alcohol may contribute to dehydration, well, probably not beer.
- hypoglicemia - this may be constant or only after the meal or exercise.

You may want to visit endocrinologist to check blood glucose and maybe adrenalin and cortisol and aldosteron levels.
You may also have some cigare-free week. Cigars may lower blood pressure, I'd say.