Gosh, Why You So Tachy??? Sit Down.

Do you frequently get a fast heart beat when you stand up to refill your popcorn bowl? Or, does your vision get dark with dizziness when you get up from bed in the morning? This episode, and those symptoms are all about POTS, or Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome.

POTS is a malfunction in our autonomic nervous system which, because this aspect of our nervous system has its fingers in every bodily system, a dysfunction can have wide ranging symptoms outside of just the fast heart beat (tachycardia) and dizziness.

Give this episode a listen to learn SO much more about POTS, it's subtypes & what causes it, as well as 2 VERY common conditions that go alongside it, EDS & MCAS.

Here's that awesome study I was telling y'all about. SO interesting!!!: Eccles JA, Beacher FD, Gray MA, et al. Brain structure and joint hypermobility: relevance to the expression of psychiatric symptoms. Br J Psychiatry. 2012;200(6):508-509. doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.111.092