Standing Up Brings You Down? Could Be POTS! (Not Your Garden Variety)
Itchy and Bitchy Podcast
KS Miller-Hnilica
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Itchy & Bitchy is back! ... and the medical system is officially on notice.
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| 0:00.0 | Sarah, where's the car? It's gone. It's not gone. It's with fixer. Since you never got |
| 0:04.6 | round to MOT, I took care of it. Fixed up. Fixed up. Fixed is great. They pick up |
| 0:08.9 | your car, drive it to the garage, handle the MOT, then drive it straight back to you. |
| 0:12.4 | Sounds expensive? Don't worry. They negotiate their prices with their |
| 0:15.2 | partner garages and the car pickup services included. So since that's all handled, |
| 0:18.9 | how about you take a look at that leaky tab or do you need me to fix that too? |
| 0:22.5 | For easy car maintenance, head to fixter.co.uk. We'll pick up your car and take care of |
| 0:27.4 | all the rest. Fixed up and you're back on track. The content of this podcast is |
| 0:32.0 | provided for general informational purposes only and is not intended as, |
| 0:36.4 | nor should it be considered a substitute for professional medical advice. |
| 0:50.7 | Welcome to itchy and bitchy, a podcast answering questions about health problems |
| 0:55.7 | that you thought had no answer. One syndrome that is often underdiagnosed or misdiagnosed |
| 1:02.8 | is something called POTS. People can have symptoms for years and see multiple healthcare |
| 1:11.6 | professionals before the diagnosis is finally made and treatment can be initiated. So I want |
| 1:17.5 | my listeners to be aware that this syndrome exists, explain to you what it is, and tell you what |
| 1:24.8 | you can do to treat it. So POTS is Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, Postural Orthostatic |
| 1:37.0 | Tachycardia Syndrome. And it is a condition that affects your circulation. It involves the part |
| 1:44.5 | of the nervous system that automatically controls and regulates our vital bodily functions. |
| 1:51.0 | This is called the autonomic nervous system. It also involves a sympathetic nervous system which |
| 1:57.4 | activates the fight or flight response. Someone who has POTS has symptoms that come on when standing |
| 2:05.3 | up from a reclining position and that may be relieved by sitting or lying back down. So they stand |
| 2:13.2 | up and the symptoms occur and if they lie back down, they'll get better. This problem is called |
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