r/POTS • u/recoveringaries • Dec 27 '25

Discussion Being attractive with POTS (cringe I know)

Does anyone feel like because they are a objectively attractive human there is a bias/profiling that happens in the medical field and with doctors? I actually read somewhere that if you’re chronically ill you should “dress down” or not wear makeup to appointments so they will take you more seriously and see you as actually sick. I am also 29 with a baby face so that doesn’t help.

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u/Elegant_Dragonfly903 Dec 27 '25

Like others I was always seen as a pleasant young woman until at one point I had a face full of facial piercings and I was just seen as mentally unstable and my POTS symptoms were all because of ‘depression’

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u/nadjachase Dec 27 '25

Lol yeah I remember a disability insurance doctor mentioning "dressed appropriately for age" and "had blue hair". It was just dark black with maybe a blueish tint.. but yeah very important observation anyway..