Hello Everyone, My name is Jon, and I want to explain my crazy experiance to everyone here who seems so knowledgeable about Dysautonomia. Only a year an a half ago I was playing college football, and I was in the best shape of my life. I tore my ACL that required me to have reconstruction surgery. The surgery went well, but was very painful. I recovered and I was able to go out with my friends for New Years eve. I probably pushed myself too hard and started to come down with a nasty bug. I was sitting in class one day, and my eye started to twitch. A day later the twicthes turned into full body twicthing and tremors, and when I stood up, my heart would pound with a very strange sensation. I pretty much chalked it all up to a bad bug, and even tho the symptoms were not as bad, they continued to a point that I just pushed to the side. I lived the past year relatively normal without limitations. I was a little tired, but have been able to workout, run, and experiance a little tachy when working out, but nothing that alramed me. I had been reading a lot about P.O.T.S and thought I was just lucky enough to have very mild symptoms. That was until lask week. I started waking up with more tremors than usual, and could feel my heart beating faster than usual. I also could not stop urinating all weeked, and felt sick, and weak. It was my girlfriends birthday, and I was unable to go on the trip I had planned, I felt horrible. I could barely walk a block without feeling extremly tired. I went to the doctor to get blood and urine tests, which all came back normal. I started going on the internet and looking up MSA and began to get very very nervous, it felt like my body was shutting down. Slowly my body began to regain some of its functions. It has been a couple days, and though I feel better than I did, I wake up in pain, tremoring slightly more, and very tachy. I feel good during the day (little lightheaded), and I am able to do everything I need to do. However, I am very nervous I am going to keep getting worse and worse to the point where I will no longer be able to support myself. How could a virus do this?! Will this ever go away? Will this turn into Autonomic Failure? I am sorry for panicking, but I have been a healthy extremely active person all my life, and I am afraid at 25 years old everything I love to do will be taken from me = ( Jon