struggling with pots

Hi Palermo, I have POTS. Are you under a cardiologist? Are you doing any treatments or taking any medications for POTS?

Some of the things that have helped me are:

- medical grade compression tights (make sure they cover the abdomen)

- electrolytes in each glass of water (which totals 1-2 servings per day)

- slow release sodium tablets on prescription (you can get ones not on prescription too)

- salting all foods

- salty snacks between meals

- drinking 2-3L water throughout the day

- Mestinon medication

POTs is often worse in the morning. Some of the things to help this are - raising your bed head. You can put blocks or books under the top of your mattress. Put your legs up against the bed head when you wake up. Drink water and electrolytes before you get out of bed.

I found liquorice tincture helpful because it raises blood pressure and I have low blood pressure as well as POTS. This isn’t recommended if you have hyperadrengic type POTS though which causes high blood pressure.

I think Sara had POTS too so she might be able to help!

Post Edited (emma blonde voyage) : 4/16/2024 10:49:19 PM (GMT-8)

ahh emma thank you so much! na im not really on any meds. Some cardiologist wanna gave me bisopropol but i really dont wanna take it....So im doing nothing at the moment. It also just started 3 months ago. And it was quite better the last month. But now it worsed again, maybe also because i raised my tinctures dosages a lot.
thank you for all your tipps. i will try them! Pyridostigmin sounds quite interesting, i will ask my doc next time.
the wierd thing during the day, my puls is often quite normal. Yesterday it was fine, walking around with an 80 HR and today i woke up and just doing breakfast and my HR is around 110.


did you tried any sympathic training? Like vagues nerve or yoga ?Breathwork?

Salt, proper hydration, and work on my nervous system resolved POTS for me very quickly, after years of struggling with it. It's a form of dysautonomia, so the signals the nervous system sends about heart rate and blood pressure are strongly impacted by the health and regulation of your nervous system. Salt and hydration levels also play a role, though, so it makes sense to address POTS from various angles.

If your symptoms are worst in the morning, then it's probably due to dehydration and lack of electrolytes overnight. Some people find it helpful to keep salted water beside the bed and drink throughout the night.

For me, "proper hydration" actually meant drinking less water than I had been drinking. (For many people, ideal hydration will be more than they habitually drink.) My dysautonomia specialist (most dysautonomia specialists are neurologists) determined I was over-hydrating and flushing the salt out of my system. She recommended I consume plenty of salt but also make sure my urine was still slightly yellow and not clear. So we're all different....

I also had POTS

It went away when I treated Bartonella.