Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Is there any hope for POTS patients?

19 May 2023 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD explains that POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome) can be put into remission and describes several subtypes. He names four types, explicitly listing autoimmune POTS, adrenergic POTS (related to adrenal epinephrine/norepinephrine with high blood pressure and large BP fluctuations), and neurogenic POTS (associated with chronically low blood pressure and cold/blue feet), and notes symptom overlap across types.

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Can POTS go away? That's a really interesting question. POTS can be put into remission, just like other autoimmune issues can be put in remission. There are four types of pots. One is autoimmune pots, one is adrenergic pots, which is a adrenal kind of pots, related to your adrenals and your epinephrine and norepinephrine. These people tend to have high blood pressure and crazy, crazy blood pressure fluctuations. There is neurogenic pots, which is usually the people with the blue feet. And those people tend to have more the low blood pressure. It's chronically low. They feel cold all the time. So there's different kinds of pots, and with these different pots, you get different symptoms. But there's a lot of overlap between these three different kinds of.