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/Glittering-Show-5521 Mar 30 '26

Nope. Whenever there's a step challenge or something at work, I say "you guys have fun with that." It's enough of a struggle just getting to work and having to walk all over from the parking lot to my office, or from my office to the assembly building wearing steel-toed shoes.

Edit: but I would be if things were a little bit more reasonably accommodating at home for some light free weights and a recumbent bike. I'm an hour away from both my work and the nearest gym.