Documenting the experiment I conducted last night. So I've read anecdotal reports that antihistamines can help to alleviate POTS fuckery. I happened to have a bottle of Zyrtec in a drawer, so I popped one before going to bed. My pulse was being really loud and chest achy. Super fun bullshit that my body does now post-covid.
Anyway, I had a bit of migraine aura (not sure if it was drug induced or what, but important to note) and after about 20 minutes my pulse got quieter, my shoulders relaxed all their tension, and I was able to drift off to sleep. And I actually got a decent night's sleep! (The day before I was running on only five hours of sleep because my entire body felt like it was on high alert.)
It has now been a little over 12 hours since I took the Zyrtec and I'm starting to feel that body and chest tension again, along with some twitchiness in my arms that makes drawing difficult. So I've got my airplane earplugs in (another weird experiment I'm conducting to see if it reduces barometric pressure fuckery in my earmeats), and I'm about to pop on the ear defenders as well.
If all this POTS fuckery is because my body activates an immune response to changes in air pressure and temperature, then I have to say that's ridiculous. But Covid did cook my headmeats something fierce, so signals have definitely gotten scrambled.
Ten minutes later: Oof! Nope. Can't do the ear defenders too. Causes too much pressure difference and makes the shoulders and back all tense. Gonna stick with just the airplane earplugs. The ones with the little filter that allows for miniscule pressure changes to pop through.
Weather this week in my neck of the woods is going to be obscenely hot. I have cooling contingencies in place. So it'll be interesting to see what happens. So far, it's turning out that summer has once again taken the top spot in my most hated seasons chart.
Edit: Oh yeah. Forgot to add that I feel terrible when the barometer waffles at a "steady" level, but I feel like absolute dogshit when the barometer waffles as it rises. Today, and for the next few days, the barometer is dropping. So it'll be interesting to see how that affects me.
