Dealing with POTS and Frequent Infections

I don't have this personally, but I have heard within the Dys community that some do experience frequent infections. I would see about making an appt with your PCP or going to urgent care. Better to be safe!

I get utis or kidney infections when the weather gets extremely hot. Then my hr variation is very pronounced. If your hr is worse than usual, you could go get a work up at urgent care, just at least let someone check your lungs/urine/maybe do a COVID test.

This happens to me any time I get sick if my immune system has to fight anything my pots gets worse and I'm hugely temperature sensitive when it happens. I usually have to be freezing cold sitting outside but in a big blanket to find some kind of neutral nothing else helps. I think you have to find your body's weird quirky fixes

my uti experience is so strange. i went to urgent care where they saw blood (i was not on my period) and gave me antibiotics but the sample came back normal, even though i had uti symptoms. i had a kidney infection back in october i think caused everything and now i’m siri careful about possible utis. i think i have them oddly often, but it’s hard to tell apparently

I have the same issue! I have dysautonomia as well and I get infections soo often it’s so frustrating. I have a sinus infection about 60% of the year every year and currently having a BV infection which is recurring as well. I’ve seen so many specialists and I just can’t take antibiotics 8 times a year so I’ve stopped going for antibiotics every time idk what to do. Definitely during the summer it is worse and I’m not sure why. My POTS symptoms are so much worse when my body is fighting infection as well. It’s like one single germ can knock me out for weeks! I will also get flu symptoms for about two weeks after just one day of overexerting myself (doing things that I used to do every day with no issues) I totally get the frustration as well