by Cort Johnson | Apr 4, 2016 | Homepage, Orthostatic intolerance, Treatment
The Mayo Clinic is where people with difficult to diagnose and treat diseases go. The Mayo Clinic’s Rochester Hospital was recently ranked the best in the world. For many ME/CFS and FM patients, though, the Mayo has been more a place to stay away from than to... 
by Cort Johnson | Oct 4, 2015 | Homepage, Orthostatic intolerance, Treatment
In Dr. Bell’s third and last blog on orthostatic intolerance in ME/CFS/FM he provides signs that you might have OI, explains the different types found, and provides examples of them. If you’re wondering if you can have more than one type of OI, Dr. Bell... 
by Cort Johnson | Oct 4, 2015 | Homepage, Orthostatic intolerance, Treatment
Maggie was exhausted, her heart was pounding, her palms were sweating. She’d been to doctor after doctor only to be told she had panic disorder but their treatments weren’t working. Maggie was definitely agitated but her agitation and other symptoms... 
by Cort Johnson | Feb 3, 2015 | Autonomic Nervous System, Homepage, Orthostatic intolerance
Few healthy people give any thought at all to standing up, but for a subset of people with chronic fatigue syndrome standing up is an act that’s fraught with peril. Whether their hearts start racing (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) and/or their... 
by Cort Johnson | Apr 17, 2014 | Autonomic Nervous System, Homepage, Orthostatic intolerance
“In conclusion, these data support the addition of POTS to a growing number of cardiovascular entities with an autoimmune pathophysiology.” Authors The Rituximab findings, the female predominance, the increasing evidence of heritability, the inflammatory... 
by Cort Johnson | Nov 23, 2013 | Orthostatic intolerance
In the fifth web seminar produced by the ME/CFS Association in the Netherlands is by Dr. Visser, a Dutch cardiologist. He takes on Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS). POTS refers to an overly rapid increase in the heart rate that occurs upon standing. ...
