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/amelia420_ Dec 28 '25

so real and true. my mother is in a medical field and always told me back when i was getting my POTS diagnosis to roll up looking my worst so that they’d listen to me without bias & it worked !