Hi: I'm a newbie here. It was really interesting for me to see that there are a lot of POTS sufferers diagnosed over the age of 65, since I was diagnosed about 14 months ago. Actually, the POTS goes along with autonomic insufficiency in my case, caused by nerve damage during chest and back surgery. I'd love to know if people diagnosed at 65 or later find that doctors blame many of our symptoms on old age. It's true in my case, that plus they blame the aftereffects of the debilitating surgery. Thanks for asking this question and taking the survey. If nothing else, having these diseases certainly doesn't make life boring, just one more challenge to aging.