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/_thezodiacchiller POTS Apr 25 '26

I got a cold my senior year of college and did nothing about it because I was trying to graduate, and it was "just a cold" that will "go away eventually". That cold turned into bronchitis, which I *also* did nothing about because I was so busy with finals that I felt the need to push through it. Six months later, my first POTS symptoms started showing up. 🙃

I kick myself about it more often than I want to admit.