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What Causes Dizziness Along With Fatigue?
My mother is 86 and has dizziness, unusual weakness, unusual tireness and these occur all together. This has occurred 4 times since 9/18/16. She was recently put on bp medicine after she ended up in ER with a bp of 227/101 and an UTI. But we cannot find out why she has been placed on cholesterol medicine since this event. She is in a rehab center and we cannot get the doctor to come to facility to see her.
Fri, 12 Apr 2019
Hello,
In my opinion, when your mother was admitted for high blood pressure, the doctors would have run a few routine blood tests like lipid profile which may have shown elevated cholesterol levels and thus would have put her on cholesterol-lowering medications to reduce cardiovascular risks in future.
It would be advisable to ask your doctor and reconfirm the lipid profile reports.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Take care
Regards,
Dr Riyanka Chail, General & Family Physician
In my opinion, when your mother was admitted for high blood pressure, the doctors would have run a few routine blood tests like lipid profile which may have shown elevated cholesterol levels and thus would have put her on cholesterol-lowering medications to reduce cardiovascular risks in future.
It would be advisable to ask your doctor and reconfirm the lipid profile reports.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Take care
Regards,
Dr Riyanka Chail, General & Family Physician
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