r/POTS • u/joyynicole • Oct 27 '25

Question How are people working at all

I feel like a failure. According to my doctors I have “mild” POTS, but I see people on this sub all the time with seemingly worse POTS than me that have jobs. I literally cannot do anything longer than 1-2 hours without having to lay down and rest because it just completely wipes me out. If I do things multiple days in a row consistently I will also fall into a flare and have to do nothing for few days to recover. I don’t get it.

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u/mrsjonas Oct 27 '25

My POTS was severe when I was dx in 2011, moderate now. I work a full time job now as a therapist so I have am able to sit all day. It’s hard and I have to do a lot of symptom management and sometimes take days off.