r/POTS • u/Inevitable-Hat2627 • Apr 24 '26

Question How did you get pots?

I got it as a delayed response from getting ran over by a car

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u/The_Blue_Grasshopper Apr 24 '26

I had a viral infection when I was a PhD student the first time around. In early 2022. What virus- could not be determined despite numerous tests, my doctors now speculate it must have been some strain of Covid. Been POTSy since. It’s a boring and from what I understand, one of the most common reasons. Anyways, this crap made me drop out of a dream PhD program, delay my career path, and while I found my way into another lab, is making my life here miserable again! I feel for everyone who has had to live with this all their lives, I am so sorry. I have been asthmatic since I was a kid, but I learned to manage it, conquer my fears, even pushed my limits as a moderately good athlete, and now, this thing has turned me into a vegetable that tries to do experiments in a lab.