MollyB

89d

Anyone diagnosed with POTS but know full well it isn't postural changes causing your symptoms? I have episodes of tachy/brady where I shoot up to around 170bpm, immediately drop to around 40bpm then resume a normal rate, but this can happen at any time and has been recorded on holter monitors as happening in the middle of the night so definitely no postural change

Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)

Chronic or Recurrent Palpitations

Bisoprolol

Bradycardia

Cardiac dysrhythmia

Anxiety (Including GAD)

Disorder of Autonomic Nervous System

Chronic Tachycardia

Acute Anxiety

Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS)

Propranolol

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  • Alexiii

    89d

    Mines turned out to be palpitations and they found something abnormal in between my lungs they still haven’t found out if it’s a blood clot or tumor and they also found multiple polyps all through out my chest

  • spookyspoonie

    89d

    This is a sign of being on the more severe end of the POTS spectrum. Raynauds and Ehlers Danlos also mean you have higher chances of being on that severe end of symptoms. I have severe pots, and have episodes of rapid tachy & Brady in the middle of the night when I have been laying down for hours.

    • MollyB

      89d

      thankyou, I just feel like I was thrown a diagnosis of pots and discarded without any thorough investigation. The cardiologist who diagnosed me said it didn't really fit POTS but he didn't know what else it might be so diagnosed POTS and discharged me🙄 I'm seeing an arrhythmia specialist in a few weeks so hopefully they will delve a little deeper

      • spookyspoonie

        89d

        I hope that they are better able to help you. Whether pots is the correct diagnosis or not, more investigation and explanations by a specialist are often helpful. Wishing you the best ❤️

  • katehall

    89d

    Yes! For me it’s triggered by a Mast Cell (Mast Cell Activstion Syndrome) response and really brought on by mold in my apartment. Can also be triggered by foods/coffee or if I haven’t done a B-12 shot

  • Panda_Rose

    89d

    I had POTS symptoms that went away when I started low histamine diet. For me there was a strong association between histamine and flares

    • MollyB

      89d

      ooh that's interesting what type of foods have histamine?

  • ak2003

    89d

    A big trigger for my episodes is a bunch of stress

  • Rhoda

    89d

    I had a weird period of time around last year sometime when my heart rate would go up to the 170s usually in the morning and especially if I was driving. Everyone kept telling me it was anxiety, but I have been WAY more anxious with full blown panic attacks and this was not that. It was so consistent, too. The cardiologist ran a bunch of tests, didn't find anything, so he put me on beta blockers and within a few hours it was fixed. I've literally never had anything medical that was that easy to solve. I still take them so i assume that means if I wasn't then my heart rate would still be high. Or it would have started dropping too low. I thought it was like a weird vascular reaction to an angiogram that I had right before this all started. When I asked the doctor if it could be that especially considering the EDS, and he couldn't get over the fact that I had enough basic medical knowledge to ask that question, it was a bit condescending and also meant I didn't get a good answer. I love doctors /s

  • MollyB

    89d

    I started propranolol but there was no change so after about 6 months they added Bisoprolol but again no change at all so I stopped taking them both in the end. Mine started the day after a car accident but apparently that's just a coincidence 🙄

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