Heart Racing to 130bpm When You Stand Up — Told It’s Anxiety. It Might Be POTS #shorts

Have you ever stood up and your heart just starts racing, maybe 120, 130 beats per minute? Sometimes you get nauseated, you can't function, you can't concentrate, you feel anxious and jittery. And you've been to the doctor and you were told it was anxiety. You were told it was a panic attack. But were you ever told it could be POTS, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome? This is a syndrome where you actually have a problem with your nervous system, your autonomic nervous system, sympathetic, Parasympathetic. You can have blood pressure fluctuations. It can happen suddenly. You can wake up in the middle of the night short of breath. You can actually be sitting down and have it hit you suddenly. And you can actually have— part of this can actually be really horrible, vivid nightmare-type dreams. This is a really common syndrome that sometimes takes up to 6 years to diagnose with multiple specialists being seen. The point is that it affects about 3 million people in our country, which is about 1% of the population, which Which is a lot when you think about it. It's something I started seeing in my practice over 20 years ago. And if you're a provider or a doctor out there practicing right now, and you're not seeing this on a routine basis, you're not looking hard enough. If you're someone out there who's actually had been ultimately diagnosed with POTS, I'd love to hear below like how you got your diagnosis and what you've actually used to help you. We have a lot of resources on our website. I've done some blogs on this as well as some podcasts on this entity. We see a lot in our practice, but I'd love to learn from you as well. Share in the community, share what online, your experience. That's how we can lift each other together. Take care. Talk to you soon.