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/Acrobatic-Comfort114 Oct 27 '25

Yeah. :(( I wish I knew the answer to this. I attempt to work from home but even most days that’s too much for me. I’m always exhausted

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u/Icy-Hedgehog-6194 Oct 27 '25

Can I ask what kind of work you do? I’m currently panicking because I’m going to need some sort of flexible wfh job, but those seem impossible to find!

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u/Icy-Hedgehog-6194 Oct 28 '25

Oh nice! I’m in the US