Hi everyone, I wanted to introduce myself. My name is Sarah I am 31 years old and live in the Boston area. I developed POTS one year ago. It came on extremely suddenly and out of nowhere. I have always been extremely active, and even played college soccer. Suddenly I was in the hospital bairly able to get up to go to the bathroom. I had constant dizziness and nausea, profuse sweating, extreme fatigue, unable to retain water, and heart rate over 140 upon standing. I have been slowly getting better since then. It has been very slow progress but I went from living with my parents, using a wheelchair, and needing help to shower. To living on my own again, exersicing, and cooking my own meals. My constant dizziness, nausea, and sweating have gone away. My heart rate has stabalized to about 100-110 on standing. And all this without much medication. I tried florenef early on but it didn't do anything for me so I went off after about a month. I was on Celexa prescribed by a dr that though I was crazy, but I am tapering off as my POTS dr thinks if Im not depressed it is useless. I just saw the dr yesterday. And he is going to try me on a low dose of midodrine. I am curious about all your experince on this drug. For me this will be the first real attempt to use medication. I have never had any BP or fainting problems so I am not sure how useful it will be for me. He said it should help with the fatigue, which is my major symptom at this point. Also interesting to note is that my dr put me in a research study which I completed a few weeks ago. I don't have any results from it yet, but I hope it will help them learn more about POTS. It was not fun, by the way.