found on Pinterest, very applicable

I JUST WANT A TALL CHAIR SO THAT I DON’T SPEND THE ENTIRE CEREMONY AT CROTCH LEVEL WITH MY HUSBAND!

Yesterday was my 17th birthday! It was the best birthday party in my life!!

And after everyone left every fucking joint in my body decided that my time has come. I never had them all hurt at the same time and it was literally crippling. I couldn’t do anything, I just lied in my bed for four hours, in horrible pain, fatigued, feeling like my body is made of lead, it was so heavy, until I eventually just fell asleep.

Then I woke up at midnight from my compression socks creating a blood clot in my foot…

Now it’s a new day and I feel like I ran a marathon.

Can’t believe this is for my whole life, bruh. It’ll probably just get worse with age too… Able-bodied people don’t know how good they have it.

My POTS is very angry with me this week, my own fault, I practically went down the list of “things that are going to piss off your POTS” and did them all every day for the last week.

This means I have spent a ridiculous amount of time with a cold pack pressed to my face, often while the rest of me is buried in blankets. Who knew that a frozen thing against my cheek could feel like the height of luxury.

almost passed out in my singing lesson cause of diaphragm work… yay! i love pots!

my nervous system during a flare up

POTS: 1

Me: 0

Please just make this flare up stop

Sometimes I wonder if I have POTS.

You know if all your doctors would just TALK to one another it would be easy to have them discuss and come to an agreement. Or even IDK share their notes with one another. But even docs in the same medical group dont fucking real each others notes. >:T

got up out of bed, automatically grabbed the edge of the piano to steady myself (just in case), started a little stretch, closed my eyes, got a slight headache, finished the stretch and opened my eyes, could barely see, “oop. Floor Time”, sat down, hit my head on the way (didn’t notice), sight came back, got jumpscared by a cat right in front of me

William Scott (British, 1913-1989), Orange Still Life with Figure, 1956-57. Oil on canvas, 48 x 60 in.

got diagnosed with hemiplegic migraine last week. looks like I’m just racking up the disabling chronic illnesses. the doctor still wants to run some tests, so might not be the only thing I’m taking from this appointment either. at least I’m getting answers

Guess who’s a dizzy fainting goat officially!

Why yes, I DID make my chronic illness into a fursona. I still don’t have a name for her, so like…. Gimme suggestions :3

But here is my POTS fainting goat girl. She has an anthro form but this is just new art I’ve got of her actually fainting lol, amazing art by @crayonheart.art on blsky

so glad there is a community on here for POTS because i will definitely be screaming into the void out how badly my body is fucked up here from time to time

For the people with chronic illnesses, more specifically POTS, do yall have constant fevers? Like, I have been warm for days, it’s not a fever and I’m not sick with a cold or anything, but it’s very fever-like, everyone is telling me I’m warm, and I can feel it myself.

Also, how worried should I be about the possibility of ME/CFS, tiktok is making me paranoid as hell

It’s wild to think I travelled to the other side of the world on my own at 19 and now at 30 I’m living back under my parents roof like nothing happened. Chronic illness gives a different shape to life and it’s weird.

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if I need obscene amounts of salt just to keep my blood flowing can I start calling potato crisps medicine or

Me, utterly filled with adrenaline: Could someone having a POTS attack do… THIS? -stands up, passes out cold-

had a thirty minute conversation with a softball team mate of mine that has POTS, and she’s now convinced i have POTS too

(the thing is she might not be wrong…)