Recovery

Thank you!  Wishing you all the best as well!!

Thank you!

XO Jules

May of 2019 (knock on wood, haha).  I am super excited about the work I’ll be doing this year!

Thank you so much!  I got a groupon and treated myself to my first haircut in a year and a half and I also got balayage for the first time ever!  I’m thrilled but it’s never gonna look this good after I style it lol.

Thank you for the lovely message!  I hope you’re having a great day!

That’s awesome!  Glad to hear it :)

Hi there!  So, my diagnosis is a bit different from POTS but some of the same things apply.  I have tachycardia that is present in all contexts and short PR interval (LGL syndrome was the most recent dx) but I also have low bp and my symptoms do increase with postural changes.  I take a beta blocker daily, which has been amazing for getting my tachycardia under control and coincidentally helps with anxiety.  Unfortunately, it also lowers blood pressure, so we need to balance the dose carefully.  I have been instructed to drink a lot of water and to consume much more salt than the average person.  That helps boost the volume of blood in the body, which supports blood pressure.  I have been told to avoid events that involve being outside in the heat, which I sometimes ignore because I gotta live my life, ya know?  I just make sure that I will have somewhere to sit down and I hydrate.  I don’t work out outside when it’s hot.  Eating smaller meals more frequently helps me avoid postprandial hypotension.  Self-awareness has been important for me.  I can typically feel when my heart rate is too high and my bp is dropping.  This typically allows me to sit down before I pass out completely.  That being said, I still end up passing out somewhere public once a year.  I tell my close friends that if I’m going down, they should help lower me to the ground rather than trying to hold me upright.  I tell them that I do not need anyone to call for medical help when I pass out unless I hit my head on the way down or don’t become conscious quickly.  I also avoid caffeine, which is not as terrible as it sounds.  My doctors suggested doing this type of training where you stand up for increasingly long periods of time every day but we ended up not doing that since I was already standing all day for work.  Knowing triggers like extended periods of standing, going rapidly from sitting to standing, caffeine, dehydration, hangovers, heat, etc. can be super helpful.  Your doctor may be able to help you identify your triggers.