Olive Posted July 19, 2011 Report Share Posted July 19, 2011 I was officially diagnosed with POTS. The autonomic cardiologist thought that my stomach would not handle salt tabs and put me on fludricortisone. I explained that I did not have a stomach, lol, she didn't think the salt tabs would be good going straight to intestine. Anyway she started me on 0.1 dose of fludricortisone and after a couple of days I had severe pitting edema, I thought it was only supposed to be trace edema. I work standing up a lot so the edema is not good, but if the med helps? Does anyone know if the edema goes down after a couple of weeks? Please help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redoctober Posted July 19, 2011 Report Share Posted July 19, 2011 I would taper your dose upward....I started on too high a dose...experienced the same problem as you (including nasty headaches)...and discovered that I should be gradually increasing the dose to allow your body to get used to it. I take .025mg right now...which seems to be okay for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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