Hello everyone,
forgive me if a question similar to this has already been posted. I tried searching and could not find one similar. I am a 25 year old female who is 6 feet tall and about 280 pounds so I am overweight and I don't know how that should affect my heart rate. But I have been having symptoms of POTS or some kind of dysautonomia so I have tried the Poor Mans Tilt Table Test. My resting heart rate goes down into the 70s (though it does seem to fluctuate quite a bit). Upon standing it can immediately shoot up into the 120s or even 130s depending on how symptomatic I am (this causes the typical dizziness, lightheadedness, feeling like blacking out, hearing and sight both go a bit. Never actually passed out). But after a bit (less than a minute) it will start to lower down, then go up, then down, then up, and finally eventually rest somewhere in the 100s or 110s. It fluctuates quite a bit. Is this normal for POTS? I wasn't sure because a few places I saw said the 30 bpm had to be sustained for a while. I should also mention that upon standing completely still for a few minutes blood starts to pool in my feet and lower legs and they can turn totally purple. This only takes a couple minutes to happen but I don't think that's normal. I DO have a tilt table test scheduled but I want to make sure my cardiologist (who I've never seen in person - argh. referred by my GP) knows what to look for because I'm reading on here they need to do the tist slightly differently/longer depending on what they are looking for.
I do not yet have a blood pressure cuff so unfortunately I do not know what my blood pressure does while doing this. I will try to get one and give it a whirl. I do NOT have a high resting blood pressure. Whenever I go to the doctor it is usually the normal 120/80.
Any thoughts, insights, and suggestions would be most welcome.
Thank you!