POTS Rising! Research & Advocacy Producing Breakthroughs in Neglected Disease
If you think ME/CFS and FM are behind the eight ball at the NIH, then check out postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), a common comorbidity. The NIH doesn’t even measure POTS funding but then how could it? POTS doesn’t even have a designated...
The Anxiety Question in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia: Is the Autonomic Nervous System to Blame?
Anxiety type symptoms are common in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia, Gulf War Ilness (GWI), and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). Dr. Baraniuk, an ME/CFS and GWI researcher, has long thought that researchers missed the boat by focusing...
Exercise Exposes New Types of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)
POTS is a condition characterized by very rapid heart rates (>40 bpm increase – adolescents; 30 bpm increase – adults) and pooling of blood in the lower body while standing. It has strikingly similar symptoms (fatigue, exercise intolerance, dizziness,...
A Mayo Clinic Love Story – and the Chink in Their Armor
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...Lives Interrupted Latest Story
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