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If Your Vision Goes Dark When You Stand Up — Before Anemia

Dr. Dr. Heo Ji-young, Director of Kyunghee Meerae Korean Medicine Clinic, Gwangjin
의료 감수 Dr. Heo Ji-young Representative Director · KMD

If your vision goes dark when you sit and then stand up, there is something to check before anemia.

Anemia is confirmed by a blood test. But if your blood counts are normal and yet you feel dizzy every time you stand up, it may be an autonomic problem — the inability to regulate blood pressure quickly when your posture changes.

  • The tests say it isn't anemia, but you keep feeling dizzy
  • It's worse when you stand up from sitting, or when you stand for a long time

In cases like these, we need to look together at both blood pressure regulation and circulation.

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Dr. Dr. Heo Ji-young, Director of Kyunghee Meerae Korean Medicine Clinic, Gwangjin

Dr. Heo Ji-young Representative Director · KMD

A graduate of the College of Korean Medicine at Kyung Hee University, with master's and doctoral degrees in pathology — the mechanisms of disease — from its graduate school. Later served as a research professor in the university's Herbology department, studying medicinal substances. Studying both disease and medicine from both sides is the foundation of this practice: explaining "why a given medicine works for a given illness" in the language of both pathology and pharmacology. Explains autonomic, chronic, and intractable conditions — and structural problems of the body — in the language of modern science, and proposes treatment matched to the cause. Has taught prescribing and clinical practice to Korean medicine doctors for over ten years, and is a co-author of "Korean Medicine, Explained by Korean Medicine Doctors," selected for the 2018 Sejong Books list (general category).

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