Dizziness, fainting and a low PI
Wed, 11/22/2017 - 2:34AMI am writing this in hope of finding someone with some advice. Perhaps someone out there has experienced the following sympoms and has found healing. My father, is currently in the hospital and his team doesn't know for sure what is causing his constant dizziness and low PI. He has also experienced vtacs. His team initially thought it was from being on Lasix and being too dehydrated. Then after many normal tests, they said it might be the right side of the heart weakening and not pushing enough blood to the left side. They started to adjust his meds, but he is slightly better with the vtacs and pi, but it hasn't completely gone away. Does anyone know what could be the cause? Thank you for your time!
Dizziness, fainting and a low PI
Mon, 12/04/2017 - 11:32AMReply Low PI
Sun, 12/17/2017 - 1:23AMAre we talking about low flow
Mon, 01/08/2018 - 4:08PMLow flow and high PI
Mon, 01/08/2018 - 4:25PMlow flow alarms
Mon, 12/10/2018 - 8:13PMI was constantly having low flow alarm with my heartmate 3 along with high
pi readings and dizziness. they finally get recall notice that pump connection has flaw in way it was designed
and i had surgery to correct it which seems to have helped with alarms. i don't read much on here about
the heartmate 3 recall
Have they checked his…
Thu, 12/27/2018 - 3:56PMHave they checked his Hemoglobin levels? I was having awful bouts of dizziness. Very lethargic. Turned out it was caused by an active bleed and my hemoglobin had dropped dramatically.
A few pints of blood sure helped 👍👍
Dizziness w/LVAD
Tue, 06/06/2023 - 5:58PMMy with after her LVAD insertion was performed Oct 2022, she was experiencing a lot of dizziness. After a couple months it was me who asked the DR what meds could be causing this, We adjusted her meds and reduced some and 1/2 of the dizziness was gone. Lorsarton was stopped which one of the side effects is dizziness. We also stopped carvedilol which also caused dizziness.And just recently we reduced her Pantoprazole to 1/2 which she was taking due to stomach bleeding because of the prednisome she has been taking for over 10 years due to lung rhumatoid arthritsis! Yet she is still dizzy, does anyone have or had this dizziness issue and if so how did you stop it? I don't know if it's the meds or there just isn't enough blood being pushed to the brain that causes this dizziness and it is extremely frustrating to her. Dr/cardiologist can't figure it out either. We already went to a neoalogist who tested her and determined it had nothing to do with the stroke over a year ago and agreed that it has to be lack of blood flow to her head/brain. So I am wondering if I should suggest to the DR again, if upping the pump speed will increase blood flow to her head/brain!!!