Symptoms
This is a symptom that affects the heart. It can feel like fluttering, thumping, or a racing sensation.
What are heart palpitations?
This causes POTS in many people, with a particular spike in the early 2020s.
What is a viral illness?
This is the most common method of diagnosing POTS. It uses a large table that the patient is strapped to.
What is a Tilt Table Test?
This is a general lifestyle change that increases a person's blood pressure.
What is increased salt intake?
This is the reason as to why there are so many types of POTS.
What are differing symptoms between people with POTS?
This symptom is characterized by confusion and struggle with memory or focus.
What is brain fog?
A procedure that may call for an extended stay in a healthcare facility.
What is a major surgery?
This causes dizziness in a person with POTS after standing up. (Blood pools in the lower half of the body and therefore there is...)
What is lack of oxygen delivered to the brain?
This is a lifestyle change that can avoid a situation in which a person will lose fluids in their body, but will overall improve health.
What is limiting alcohol consumption or drinking more water?
This is associated with elevated norepinephrine, a stress hormone.
What is Hyperadrenergic POTS?
Another word for an involuntary shaking movement.
This can cause major changes in a woman's body, some being new diseases and disorders.
What is pregnancy?
The part of the peripheral nervous system that controls involuntary physiological functions such as breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, digestion, etc.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
This is a lifestyle change that can be beneficial to anyone but specifically helps POTS because it improves blood circulation.
What is exercise?
This is caused by other conditions that may cause symptoms. For example, diabetes, Lyme disease, lupus, etc.
What is Secondary POTS?
This symptom occurs when a person feels sluggish, slow, and tired.
What is fatigue?
Another word for able to pass down to generations through genes.
What is hereditary?
This involves measuring the heart rate and blood pressure of the patient while lying down and standing at intervals of 2, 5, and 10 minutes.
What is an Active Stand Test?
This is a medication that slows the heart rate.
This is caused by abnormally low blood levels.
What is Hypovolemic POTS?
This is the highest-risk symptom of POTS, which can be quite dangerous. It is not apparent in all people with the condition.
What is fainting?
POTS can have connections with this disorder or symptom.
What is joint hypermobility/mast cell disorder?
This is the number in which the heart rate of a person must increase after elevation in order to meet the criteria for POTS.
What is a 30 bpm increase/120 bpm in all?
This is a medication that helps with blood vessel constriction.
What is midodrine?
This is caused by damage to the small fiber nerves. These are the nerves that control the constriction of the blood vessels in the limbs and abdomen.
What is Neuropathic POTS?