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Itchy and Bitchy Podcast

Standing Up Brings You Down? Could Be POTS! (Not Your Garden Variety)

Itchy and Bitchy Podcast

KS Miller-Hnilica

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Medicine

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Karen discusses postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), an under diagnosed condition that causes a slew of issues when standing up.

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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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