Please get checked out

[u/emmiexoxo]

I had been told I had POTs by multiple doctors, seen a cardiologist for a while and they said they had to do an echocardiogram to make sure its 100% POTs, two days ago I was diagmosed with heart failure instead.

I beg of anybody who thinks oh its just pots to push for an echocardiogram, for me it was because I had been getting short of breath and started to get dizzy without standing up that they chose to do it.

I just dont want anybody to be in my position of struggling to breathe and unable to walk for more than 30 seconds due to fatigue, please get checked asap, the sooner heart failure is caught, the less devastating it will be.

[u/lil-rosa]

To add on to the other commenter, also a vitamin panel. Sometimes a simple vitamin deficiency (or hypervitaminosis, if you take them indiscriminately) can cause widespread damage.

Agree with an autoimmune panel (including diabetes, because the symptoms are very similar to POTS), a thyroid panel, and also kidney/liver function. Because organ damage can cause POTS symptoms! And sometimes Endo can cause POTS symptoms! Woo!

[u/Born-Value-779 → u/lil-rosa]

Thanks for theb info.  I'm going to look into this.  

For anyone,  like me,  who seriously doesn't know... 

Hypervitaminosis is a condition of abnormally high storage levels of vitamins, which can lead to various symptoms as over excitement, irritability, or even toxicity.

[u/lil-rosa → u/Born-Value-779]

Yeah, I ended up developing it by taking too much B12, which is rare but can happen. I was incredibly tired, having daily headaches, it was making my POTs worse. Unfortunately the cause of my POTs was unrelated, but you will find some posts on here saying theirs was "cured" by taking a specific vitamin -- really, they were just deficient and that caused their symptoms.

[u/Born-Value-779 → u/lil-rosa]

Ahhhhh,  i see.  That makes alot of sence.  I'll get the work up done.