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kali

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  1. I've been going through something like this, as well. And yes, it is incredibly uncomfortable, especially when your body has "adjusted" to a consistently high heart rate. Or at least it is for me. In my case, the lower heart rate coincided with a reaction to a medicine; however, my system isn't clear of the medicine, so I've not yet determined if it was really the medicine or just another weird autonomic thing. I would definitely echo flop's advice. The only difficult thing about bringing it to the attention of a dr., and something that I've struggled with as well, is that your lower heart rate is considered a fairly normal range (aside from the jumps on standing, that is). On the other hand, your dr. might consider it a medication issue. Are you still experiencing this today?
  2. Yeah, I have those too. Plus, some of the veins around my eyes became pretty prominent, as well. For me, the rings don't seem to be related to reading and computer use; however, I have worse visual distortions after those activities and my eyes become very fatigued very quickly. My eyes start to hurt, presumably from strain, and I get dizzy, so I just close them for a while. I don't know what would cause the rings under your eyes after reading/using the computer, but a guess is that it could very well be a manifestation of fatigue.
  3. Thank you guys so much! It's completely new to me (and now I'm thinking most likely a result of Klonopin withdrawal since I have such weird reactions to medicine and haven't experienced this before), so I didn't know if it was in the "realm" of POTS/autonomic problems or something entirely different. If this continues, though, I'll probably get an EKG or Holter just to be on the safe side since I'm experiencing a lot of symptoms along with it.
  4. Hi all! I'm new, but this seems like an amazing place with some amazing people. Just a little background: I was just diagnosed with POTS in August, but doctors suspect that I've had it at least 10 years, if not my entire life. Anyway, I was wondering if any of you have experienced anything like what I've been experiencing the last week or so. I've been keeping track of my heart rate lately since I've been feeling awful. It's not doing it's normal POTSy thing (e.g steadily increasing upon standing), but instead increasing, dropping, increasing again, dropping, etc. It's not uncommon for it to drop 10-30 beats and then jump back up again. Today it dropped from 140 to 80 bpm and it felt awful! It's also gone from 130 to 45 and then up to 180, which is quite scary. Typical HR readings this week have been like this (all within a second or so span of each other): 130 to 100 to 125 to 108 to 100 to 88 and then up again, constantly changing by the second. I feel like a ping pong! Before this, my heart rate was pretty steadily high. Now it's just all over the place. It might as well be constantly running high-I'm horribly symptomatic. Have any of you had this happen? Also, I've checked this against three heart monitors, so no technical problems and I've also checked against healthy family members, whose heart rates will register as steady and fluctuating by about a beat or two. So it appears to be me. I'm also not on any POTS medications, so that can't be it. The only thing different lately has been that I've been slowly withdrawing from Klonopin for my insomnia. I'm worried because I'm supposed to see Dr. Grubb soon for my POTS, but I don't know how he could possibly treat this as POTS anymore! Plus I feel awful. Well, thanks! Sorry if this appears incoherent!
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