I Have Dysautonomia


for those with the autonomic nervous system disorder

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I Know I Can't Be the Only One ...

I was diagnosed with dysautonomia about two years ago.  Anyone who joins this group will know the story, but since it seems no one does...

Really Better

So guys, I was really bad and depressed last year. But I don't know, I going to the Church these last months and I am feel that I never been...

Not a Fun Rollercoaster, I Tell You.

So yeah... I have dysautonomia.  For those who aren't familiar with it (that would be, you know, just about everyone), it's basically a...

Unknowingly Having Dysautonomia For Five Years

so i have been sick for five years. im 17 now and have been sick since i was twelve. it started off as just being light headed and very...

Trying To Live A Normal Life

I was diagnosed with Dysautonomia, POTS, Ehlers-danlos hypermoblity syndrome all in this past winter. I am 17 years old but have been...

Possibly Pots

When I was 17 I started having weird medical problems, I was going to the washroom ALOT and was having weird anxiety, my heart would...

Dysautonomia

My name is Carol and I am 41-years-young. I was diagnosed with dysautonomia on December 23, 2010. I remember it so vividly. At the time, it...
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These snippets show some of the most common themes mentioned in this experience's stories:
  • "Then i found an article on POTS that would explain all the diagnosis i had had so far plus the rapid heart rate a dropping blood pressure upon standing, the intolerance to heat the pooling of blood in my legs, seeing black dots with weird blurred vision..."
  • " Or another way to say it: frequent, vague but disturbing aches and pains, faintness / fainting, fatigue and inertia, severe anxiety attacks, tachycardia, hypotension, poor exercise tolerance, gastrointestinal symptoms, sweating, dizziness, blurred vision, numbness and tingling, anxiety and depression..."
  • "Dysautonomia is caused by malfunctioning of the the autonomic nervous system which controls all unconscious bodily functions - like heartbeat ...."
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26% of people who have this experience are in their thirties, 25% are in their teens, and 24% are in their forties. 91% of people who have this experience are women.

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