Dr. Diana, both a doctor (therapeutic optometrist), and a recovered POTS and ME/CFS patient, offers help and hope for POTS, Dysautonomia, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Chronic Fatigue, Chronic Lyme, vascular abnormalities, Fibromyalgia, and Multiple Sclerosis. Dr. Diana is now working full time at POTS Care.
I’m no Dr., but I’m becoming educated on POTs and dysautonomia. I did have a positive TTT, my heart rate increased dramatically, but on that day my blood pressure didn’t drop significantly. I told the Dr that I happened to be having a “good” day that day and I’m sure on a different day he would see BP drop. Plus I had a different U of M Dr. Clearly track how my BP drops upon standing on another day (not to mention I take my own BP and see that it’s dangerously low most of the time. We all know we have good days and bad, with a variety of different symptoms on different days. It only makes sense with the dysfunction of our vital organs that you could get different TTT results on different days.
Next week a Dr wants to conduct a TTT on me while on all my drugs: beta blocker, florinef and Savella.
Anyone know why he wants to test me while on my drugs? I hope he’s not going to try to get a negative and tell me I don’t have POTs, because I know that’s not true.
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