POTS and how it's ruining my life

let's talk #illness

scary right?

this could happen to ANYONE! that's what I've learned.

POTS is Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, and it's terrifying.

i got diagnosed in July of 2023 and it's seriously destroyed me.

after years of fighting, I finally got a diagnosis and my health still is on a downhill spiral.

i can barely stay awake some days, I can't work at all. i can't hold a job because of my pots, people aren't understanding to "I'm going to pass out, I need to sit down" too many times. once is usually enough, but I don't pass out just once.

heat makes me faint, less salt makes me faint, standing up makes me faint, pain makes me faint, sitting makes it better but not by much.

so what do I do?

suffer.

because as a potsie, I can't do much else. i am stuck in a cycle of good days and bad days, and I can't get out.

#Lemon8Diary #pots #POTSie #unaesthetic #embracevulnerability #disabled