Do I Have This Health Condition? Seeking Advice from Those Who Know

@Raven_Wine yep, sounds like POTS. Like I said above, increase your fluid intake (caffenated beverages don't count), and electrolytes/salt. I do about 1/3 of my water intake with electrolytes. The science behind this is by drinking more water, you increase your blood volume. Then you add in electrolytes to help the water stay in your body. This helps your blood stay circulating properly, rather than pooling in your lower extremeties. Compression garments work too. Some people find the tall running socks helpful but I prefer torso compression as it kind of keeps the blood moving better to my heart. You can even buy tights that go all the way up under your chest, I wore maternity compression leggings when I worked on my feet all day.

@Raven_Wine Oh my gosh, I have had an extensive cardiologic workup done and every test comes back normal. It is so frustrating trying to get a diagnosis. The golden standard test is a tilt table test performed by an electrophysiologist. After you receive a diagnosis, you have to figure out which subset of pots you have. For me specifically, I have Hyper pots, short for hyperadrinergic. My body dumps way to much adrenaline into my bloodstream. Unlike Hypovolimic Pots, I don't suffer from low blood volume or low blood pressure. Increasing my salt intake or my fluid intake does not help my symptoms. My blood pressure runs high most of the time, and my heart rate at rest is high as well. Pots can be secondary to other health issues too. For example a severe B1 deficiency can mimic pots. At the beginning of my pot's Journey, I was seeing a functional doctor that checked as many nutritional deficiencies as she could. To my surprise I had quite a few. Correcting these vitamin deficiencies really relieved the severity of a lot of my symptoms. This second thing we worked on was healing my gut. Getting rid of things like candida and SIBO, and adding a high quality probiotic can also help you begin to start feeling better. There are so many things along the way that you can do to help yourself. Please message me any time if you have any questions or even if you're just feeling overwhelmed. I will always answer. I hope this helped and I hope that you get some much needed relief. 🙏❤️