My Journey Towards Diagnoses
With POTS ‘Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome’
In 2020 I found myself fighting everyday to be able to take only a couple of steps. My body, thriving in a couple of months prior to my collapse, was giving up on me and isolating me from a normal life, school, sports, socialising, relationships. I hit rock bottom, I was living in my worst nightmare.
I spent months in and out of medical care, thrown into countless amounts of scans, tests, special diets, restrictions, and was misdiagnosed many times. My resting heart rate was on a constant high ranging between (140-180)bpm, my body failed to keep a normal blood pressure. Some of the other symptoms I can remember of the top of my head included brain fog, blurry vision, severe headaches, muscle aches, easy bruising, chronic fatigue, weak immune system (which brought on countless infections), hair loss, paling of the skin and constant fainting episodes. Not to mention the mental health side of this illness, causing me to fall into severe depressive episodes and anxiety. I found myself confined to bed at only 20 years old and my state of health had taken my entire identity from me.
