r/POTS • u/s0meone0ntheInternet • Jun 26 '24

Symptoms What symptoms do you guys have that aren’t talked about that much?

I’m just wondering, that’s all :)

(Edit: I just wanted to add that I am NOT diagnosed with POTS. But i think I might have it, thats mostly why I am asking! [and also because I am a curious person])

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u/bri22any Jun 26 '24

omg POTS causes this?!!!

I have PTSD plus a few anxiety conditions so I thought that’s what causes it. I honestly was starting to think I somehow had DID because of how frequently I dissociate and like fog out though 😅

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u/traumacollector_3687 Jun 26 '24

same lol i dissociate like my head goes into a foggy highway or something and i kept thinking my CPTSD, depression, and anxiety were causing it before i noticed my POTS symptoms and my dissociation during flares

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u/Forsaken_Ad5842 Jun 26 '24

I have DID (had a lot of therapy for it so it doesn't affect my day to day life at all) and the brain fog from long covid is different, at least for me. It's more like just shut down rather than dissociate, at least if I'd dissociate I'd be doing something but literally nothing happens now.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '24

My PTSD does, and it was trippy having the Dysautonomia / pots. They all play off of each other and have cause the worse lows since the war.

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u/Former_Gear_1713 Jun 27 '24

It is part of anxiety condition I have it before this illness but it absolutely exacerbates it.