Is it normal to experience dizziness and a slight headache after stretching?

depends i used to, if i would stretch and break the stretch fast it would send a rush of blood to my head. Take it slow. and It won’t happen as often.

Stretching before or after exercising? Or does it not make a difference?

@AlfredaPrufrock – absolutely no difference, at least for me.

I’m beginning to hate doctors

I find I have a tendency to tense my body really hard when I stretch, in order to concentrate on holding the stretch, and the release from that makes me feel lightheaded.

@_Liz – I strongly dislike doctors, though they have become a necessity in my life. Unfortunately.

Make sure you are not holding your breath while you stretch.

Your blood pressure has to respond to position changes, too; so move slowly and gradually allow the body to recover.

@hearkat – Could it be the result of low blood pressure? like just having low blood pressure?

I’m on my iPhone, so I can’t give a link, but you can google or wikipedia search for “orthostatic hypotension”.

Will do.

@_Liz

Something tells me doctors are nicer to kids. I went in once with something last year that was really just a product of my hypochondria (though I didn’t think that at the time) and my doctor was really nice about it and treated it just as seriously as he would have anything.

@Dansedescygnes – I think your doctor is just nice to you. I’ve never had a doctor be nice to me about any of my Real problems, and I’ve had most of them since I was born. Well—OK -since I was about ten or so, I haven’t had any nice doctors. My first doctor was really nice, but I was like four when I saw her, so that might be why I thought so.

And you’re getting off-topic young man.

Low blood pressure. I would think.

@please_not_to_ask2

Maybe. He is pretty nice, I mean he was providing all these remedies and stuff and of course it just went away on its own not too long after that. He didn’t even get mad at me that one time for having so much trouble with the strep-throat swab thing…I don’t understand, I had done it before, but the second time my tongue kept blocking it and he had to try it like 10 times. And he’s the one I lied to about alcohol consumption because I didn’t want him to think badly of me. :(

And off-topic? Oh noes!!!

@asmonet – one would think a doctor would check such a thing, but I know I have really low blood pressure, so I am thinking that must be it, at least in my case.

@Dansedescygnes – They’re serious about that here! Sometimes.

My physical therapist says it can be because your fascia are tight and you need myo-fascial release (a form of really painful but very effective deep tissue massage). Based on my experience he seems to be correct.