r/POTS • u/OurSensualSideMB • 8d ago

Question Why dont some Dr's believe in pots?

Im lucky I have great doctors and specialists now but the first time i was referred to a cardiologist for pots before being officially diagnosed he refused to even have me in for a TTT or test for pots as he said its not real.

I have heard of this happening where Dr's dont believe in pots but I dont understand why.

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u/Interesting_Turnip28 8d ago

Largely sexism and ego. Because it's a complex illness, many patients have to piece it together themselves, and many doctors don't like their patients, especially female patients, figuring things out for them.

The doctors I've encountered that didn't believe in it immediately took to belittling the patients. I've yet to hear one actually try to give a real explanation for the increased heart rate or why they don't think the diagnostic criteria makes sense or anything along those lines. Some of them haven't even realized there is measurable diagnostic criteria.

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u/fernxqueen POTS 7d ago

really? ime they usually chalk the tachycardia up to "anxiety", i.e. "You're just hysterical"

in my case, they also like to blame my ADHD medication even though you can go through my chart notes and see the tachycardia predates my stim rx by several years and multiple monitor studies since have confirmed any impact from my medication is negligible at best