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page: Search posts:  First Post in a New Blog  Posted Jun 10
2009 12:19am  My name is Harper. I'm a 20 year old college
student in Pittsburgh. I have Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia
Syndrome, or POTS for short. I was initially diagnosed at the
age of 15 and rediagnosed at 20. I'm keeping this blog to
document my medical journey and to hopefully educate people as
to what this condition is.  So what is POTS? POTS is a syndrome
that basically means when I stand up, my body can't counteract
the forces of gravity very well, thus forcing my heart to beat
much quicker than the average person. This anomaly can be caused
by any number of factors, but in most people that have it
chronically it is believed to be caused by one's autonomic
nervous system not working correctly, or dysautonomia. Your
autonomic nervous system controls the things in your body that
you don't have to worry about consciously, such as heartrate,
sweating, breathing, body temperature, bl