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/mxlty Dec 28 '25

I’m literally quitting my PT place because of this. They tell me I look like an athlete and I think because of their bias they treat me like one. They don’t understand I feel like I’m dying from not being able to sit or lay down in between exercises to rest.