Does Your Pots Seem To Reset After Passing Out?

[mully2014]

My body used to "reset" when I passed out but unfortunatly for a while now my body doesn't seem to be resetting after I faint. The "reset" would be when I would have less symptoms (still had them but it was better). Eventually the dizzy spells would increase and I would pass out but I would feel better for a bit after passing out. Wish I could get that feeling again!

So, how many people "reset"?

[lieze]

I felt I reset after an episode of tachycardia that usually included an adrenaline surge.

My symptoms have improved and I don't get to that point now where I need to reset.

It could have just been a feeling.

I think I almost got a second wind or runners high with that reset feeling.

[bunny]

Mine definitely "resets" after I pass out. I usually try to fight off passing out as I don't care to be unconscious nor do I like the feelings I get right before I pass out. BUT sometimes it's just prolonging the suffering.

I'll sometimes have this happen with friends and they'll get me to some place safe (where I can lay down or recline, or otherwise fall/hit my head) and tell me to just pass out. Other than feeling tired, I usually feel quite good after passing out. I wouldn't use the word refreshed, but maybe 10-15 mins afterwards I do feel ready to take on the world again.

My body seems to be more stable afterwards as well.

[jenglynn]

Most of the time my body "resets" itself after about 10 minutes after syncope. I get syncope daily so I am quite used to this. After I faint, it takes me a few minutes to "come to" and become conscious entirely... then I am groggy, a little out of it, I think that I am almost in another world for a bit... but within 10 minutes I am usually back to normal. When I say "normal" I don't mean normal as in people without autonomic dysfunction, but normal as in if I lying down and not having any major symptoms.

I am normally okay until I am upright again. I am one of those people who happens to be in a flare that will cause syncope or near syncope almost every time I am upright at all. My standing limit is less than a minute.

Jen

[puppylove]

I have never fainted from POTS, but I have fainted when I had the flu really bad. I felt so terrible before I fainted and when it was over I felt a lot better... Not sure why.

[mully2014]

Has anyone had it where their body used to reset but for some reason it stopped resetting? My body doesn't seem to be resetting anymore and I don't know if that has to do with a flare of it or what.

[Guest tearose]

My goodness no! I never get a reset! I get like a limp ragdoll and can barely move.

I have triggered the beginning of a relapse from fainting.

[bunny]

Mine still resets, some 20+ years and counting.

[sandymbme]

I don't think I have ever "reset". In fact, I have to be super cautious after I have a syncope issue, because I am very, very likely to just keel back over again when I try to get up. There have been episodes where I have been stuck on the floor for HOURS, because every time I try to get back up again, I come crashing back down. Today, in fact has been pretty bad, have had three full syncopes, and dozens of near syncopes. DISLIKE!

Sandy