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I got tested - so I finally know what causes my POTS. In case anybody is interested, I have written down my experiences, here:
Treatment: doctors, medical treatments, harmless stuff one can try at home
Research: how the antibodies cause POTS
Tests & treatments for POTS caused by adrenergic receptor antibodies
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Hi haugr and Chaos,
Welcome
You can imagine, how happy I was finally having found a cause for my POTS.... Finally knowing what brings it about!! Now, regarding treatments, there are medical treatment chances and doctors as linked above. The problem is that the newest insight from a study by Prof Scheibenbogen indicates that even plasmapheresis offers only temporary relief. Well, the antibodies are simply reproduced after a while. (The study was on CFS patients. But this issue will be the same in POTS.)
So, honestly, we have to search for treatments ourselves. Being a researcher, I spent the last weeks scanning tons of research on what helps other autoimmune problems and there is so, so many harmless stuff ranging from resistant starch over vitamin D to prolonged water fasting, which actually do have research to support their benefit. No doctor told me about these!! I have resolved my CFS myself, and I am determined to get this **** POTS out of my life and lead a healthy normal happy life again, out of bed. Here I posted about this