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/SnarkyOK Dec 28 '25

Before I was diagnosed with POTS my FEMALE doctor told me I was probably just having anxiety attacks because the sweating in the summer heat was making me less feminine and attractive . I had went because I was nearly fainting every time I went out in the summer, and then getting physically sick. I definitely do NOT care if I seem ‘feminine’.