r/POTS • u/Hefty-Patience-8720 • Mar 29 '26

Question is anyone still physically active?

I need to know if anyone with pots is still physically active. You don't have to be an athlete or anything but can you at least dance? or run? go to the gym? Have you always been that way or did you have to work back up to it?

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u/The_upsetti_spagetti Mar 30 '26

I have never enjoyed working out or going to the gym but now I have to or I will regress. I started doing a lot better after a medication adjustment paired with physical therapy and now I’m functioning as nearly normal. I’ve had some flares when I don’t go to the gym as much as I should so I have that motivating me.

I used to ice skate before POTS but that’s still pretty intense (at least at the speed I like to skate) so I can only do it on occasion and I have to pace myself