Annaliese Posted January 9, 2016 Report Share Posted January 9, 2016 Does anybody have any theories on what the mechanism is in pregnancy-triggered dysautonomia / POTS? Can it be put in the same basket as other stress triggers like car accidents/surgeries? Does anyone know what the mayo's take on this currently is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomtoGiuliana Posted January 9, 2016 Report Share Posted January 9, 2016 Not sure of the mechanism but I think it must be related to hormonal changes. This is what triggered major POTS symptoms for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sideofsalt Posted January 9, 2016 Report Share Posted January 9, 2016 (edited) Hi Annaliese,My doctors said that pregnancy was a major event, like a "trauma" to the body so it can be seen that way in terms of developing POTS. I think it could be more of an immune system change. I developed POTS postpartum (post-nursing, actually) and around that time my environmental allergies increased. It's like my immune system was suppressed and after delivering, it bounced back to a higher degree of sensitivity. Edited January 9, 2016 by sideofsalt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahA33 Posted January 9, 2016 Report Share Posted January 9, 2016 Hi all,This excerpt might be of interest to you if your looking for stats on delivery: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.3109/14767050903265089These last few links are from Dr. Svetlana Blitstheyn, a renowned POTS neurologist who also happens to be one of DINET's Medical Advisor's!http://www.dinet.org/index.php/about-us/advise and here is her site http://drblitshteyn.com/http://www.dysautonomiainternational.org/blog/wordpress/pots-and-pregnancy-safety-and-other-concerns/http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/14767058.2011.648671?src=recsys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sideofsalt Posted January 10, 2016 Report Share Posted January 10, 2016 Great recent article by Dr. Blitshteyn on Dysautonomia International. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annaliese Posted January 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2016 MomtoGuiliana how are you going these days? I remember your name from years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annaliese Posted January 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2016 SarahA33, thank you for those links. Interesting that a lot of pregnant POTS ladies develop severe vomiting. That happened to me. Whenever I google pregnancy and POTS I can't seem to find much on pregnancy actually triggering POTS. I started to feel really quite ill at about 5 -6 weeks I think it was. Hospitalisation only occurred at about 33 weeks for "atypical preeclampsia" (ie dysautonomia). I then got much worse after the c section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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