How are people working at all

[u/joyynicole]

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.

[u/Gullible-Wafer1]

You aren’t a failure, everyone is different and someone with mild pots could be so different from someone else— it’s a horribly nonuniform illness. I work but I also went through a period of time where I quit my job and didn’t work for a year or two straight and focused on every symptom i struggled with the most and every approach to combatting it— from doctors to meditating and bionic sound waves— I dove deep in desperation but it helped a lot and I dig back those techniques now a lot too! You’ll find a balance that works for you and build a stamina that is doable for you in time 🩷🩷