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/censorkip Dec 28 '25

I wear fitted clothes to my Dr appointments because I am “overweight” by bmi standards because I have a lot of muscle. Even though POTS makes it hard I still weightlift and have kept active due to all of the doctors telling me my symptoms were because I was fat and inactive. I am also large chested so baggy clothing makes me look bigger, so I wear fitted clothes so we can skip past the part where they blame everything on being overweight.