Amalia01 Posted March 3, 2016 Report Share Posted March 3, 2016 I'm curious as to why patients are being sent for a second tilt table test after a positive diagnosis of POTS. What is the reason for this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katybug Posted March 3, 2016 Report Share Posted March 3, 2016 My autonomic specialist did it because he just doesn't trust the methods of other docs less educated in dysautonomia. And, he has equipment that did a constant monitor of bp vs. period reading.We repeated recently because it had been 5 yrs and my symptoms are uncontrolled so he wanted to verify if anything had changed with my heart rate or bp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lily Posted March 3, 2016 Report Share Posted March 3, 2016 My doc wanted to test my plasma NE during tilt, which the previous doctor didn't do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
statesof Posted March 3, 2016 Report Share Posted March 3, 2016 I did a second one just because it was done at another clinic and I think they wanted to have their own set of results in their system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stellaluna Posted March 3, 2016 Report Share Posted March 3, 2016 Unhappy about this. My doctor suggest a 2nd TTT today. My first was quite unpleasant though positive (no pass out). One reason he stated is that he doesn't use nitro or anything for that matter because anyone will react in some way to it. He needs more information for our course of action... Here we go again.Also I had a bad experience with the staff, process and this next TTT will be in a diff. location. I am on Florinef and asked about this. He said stay on it for the test. I wonder how this will affect the results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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