Found My POTS Cause. Probably. But Finally.

This is going to be a long one, just warning you. It only took 11 years, but we have finally found what is most likely causing my POTS. *highkick!*

I have not written on here in a LOOOOONG time. Like really written. I just haven't had it in me. Most of you that have read through this blog know that my goal was to make sense of this POTS and dysautonomia junk, and encourage folks to find their cause - because 90% of POTS is secondary, and frankly, most doctors just brush it off as no big deal. There are only band-aide medications, you can't really get well unless the cause is found if you happen to fairly debilitated by it. And even then there is no guarantee - but SOMETHING is causing your POTS, and if it's someting serious, YOU NEED TO KNOW.

What's ironic about this timing is that after having a port removed the day before Thanksgiving

because it had gone horribly, terribly wrong (clots, nerve damage, clogged, blah blah blah, etc...), I decided to take a break. I rescheduled all my appointments well into 2014 to take a few months off, because I AM TIRED OF THIS CRAP. 2012 and 2013 were spent on a wild goose chase after an admission where the inpatient physical therapy program actually discharged me, citing that I obviously had an underlying medical condition that needed addressed, and they were alarmed at my blood work.