“POTS,” or “postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome,” which many of his patients suffered from. POTS is a subtype of dysautonomia. (“Dysautonomia,” as mentioned earlier, is itself an umbrella term for a host of different conditions, many of whose causes have yet to be fully pinned down.) In common manifestations of POTS, a patient’s autonomic nervous system has trouble regulating the heart’s response to exertion, changes in posture, or variations in temperature, sending the body into an inappropriate fight-or-flight response. Some patients’ systems have trouble adjusting blood pressure or
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I have pots
