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Before this, I would only have them when I was outside of my comfort zone. With this, and being stressed and having anxieties about it, they come depending on how I am feeling.

Yeah, I am going to try and stay on a sleep schedule as well. Right now I am in a "rotating" period so I can get to the doctor. I need to start experimenting with diet as well. I don't eat right as it is, so I need to find foods that make me feel better. I just looked up some compression stockings so I might be purchasing some of them soon. I think the tachycardia is worse for me because I make it worse. Having anxieties and knowing your heart rate is over 120 doing nothing but standing scares me. I know the anxieties that go with this is only making things worse. Hopefully the anxiety meds will help me enough to where I feel more comfortable at home as well as being able to go out to get the proper tests.

I think I have also experienced the pushing against my left rib cage. This happens when I am laying on my side, or almost fully on my side, when I am trying to sleep. It's pretty crazy, though, how similar our stories seem to be. I mean, same age, sleep patterns, gender, onset of POTS (although I haven't been diagnosed). If you don't mind me asking, what adjustments have you had to make since you realized you had POTS? How long has your symptoms been going on? What do you do about the tachycardia? Since I haven't been to the doctor for this yet, I just have to wait them out and suffer through it. And thanks, Corina!

Oh man, my sleep schedule is ALWAYS messed up. Again, I blame this on my anxieties and lack of a routine. I would get on a "normal" sleep schedule (getting up in the AM, sleeping in the PM), but it would always get messed up because I would either stay up playing games, or because my body didn't have time to acclimate to it and would refuse to go to sleep until it was early morning. I would then try rotating it around. I would say my sleep schedule changes at least once a month. I constantly try to rotate it back around by staying up as long as possible then sleeping as long as possible until it is where I want it to be. The only times I have trouble falling asleep is when my body simply refuses due to what I think it because my internal clock is not use to it. I have noticed, however, since I have started experiencing these POTS type symptoms, I cannot stay asleep all night like I could before. It has not failed yet to sleep for four hours and I wake up, fall back asleep for a few more hours then I wake up again. Since I have been dealing with this, I have not slept a full night without waking up at least two times. Oh, and another weird thing is I have had hyperhydrosis since I could remember. My arm pits would sweat no matter the temperature or activity level. Since I have been experiencing this, my arm pits are not sweating nearly as bad as before. I then thought this all could be due to dehydration, but my urine is clear and I pee two to three times a day. Also, underneath my arm pits have been sore, almost like I have a swollen lymph node, but I cannot feel any swelling or bumps.

My palpitations just feel like a very hard heart beat. Sometimes my heart feels like it's being a little over sensitive to how I breathe. Like, it will be beating fast, but when I breathe in it speeds up and when I exhale it slows down too much that it would normally. But like I said before, I haven't so far had any more significant symptoms other that the fast heart beat and palpitations. Also, the palpitations seem to ease up throughout the day as well as my RHH. The doctor won't be seeing the morning symptoms as my sleep schedule is I go to sleep early morning and get up late afternoon. I will be going to the doctor early morning when my symptoms will most likely be not as bad.

It's crazy how similar our stories seem to be. I have a hard enough time dealing with my anxieties and i'm just afraid that this will just manifest itself in to being another problem further hindering my mobility and quality of life. The sad thing is that I was actually feeling pretty comfortable with my anxieties, but since the chest thing and now this, my anxieties have increased. I guess I should just be hopeful that no other symptoms start arising from this and that I can find something quickly that will get me back to where I was before this month. Like I said before, I remember having something very similar to this a few year back, but it only lasted a week or two. I'm just frustrated I guess. The doctors appointment will be hooking me up to a 24hr holter, prescribing me some anti anxiety meds, and probably some blood work to try and rule out some things that may be causing my problem.

Rain, it sounds like you and I have almost the exact same thing. I do believe my heart will stay thump harder once I stand then start to speed up like yours. Sometimes I think it's almost an instant speed up of heart rate. Farmer, I am unsure if I think the chest/back pain are related, I do know, however, that I lost 13 lbs that month because of my anxiety/pain. I didn't really want to eat because it made things worse. With my anxiety condition also comes very little exercise and activity. I usually sit just about all day with exception of walking around a bit and going up and down two flights of steps a few times a day. I try to jog in place sometimes, but with my heart rate going up, I find it uncomfortable to do it until my heart rate decreases once I have been up a while. I do live near Nashville, so if it comes down to it, I will just have to suck it up and head down to the Vanderbilt center to perhaps get some answers.

Hey everyone, my name is David and I am 24 years old. I joined to try and get some answers to what might be going on with me recently. After searching the internet with what is going on with my heart rate, it seems that POTS is the only thing that comes up. First, let me say I have an anxiety disorder that has left me basically housebound, so it's very hard for me to travel far for tests and such. Let me start with my story. All through December I seemed to have had a persistent chest and back pain. I noticed the symptoms were getting better day by day rather than staying the same or worse, so I self diagnosed with a pulled muscle or something similar. On Jan. 8th, I was walking down my stairs and had a near fainting experience, which never happens to me. My heart rate jumped to 140 and I was also having an anxiety attack with it. I called the paramedics and everything checked out and didn't see any reason I should go to the ER. The next day, my heart rate jumped when I stood up so I called them again. With some serious convincing, they talked me in to going to the ER just to get everything checked out. Everything did in fact check out (chest x-ray, EKG, blood test). Fast forward to today, I am still having a 30-40 jump in heart rate when I stand. I do not, however, have any other symptoms that seem to be related with POTS. This has made me very confused as to what this is or what could be causing this. I remember having something similar to this about two years ago that lasted a week or so and eventually went away. In conclusion, this is the 15th day of me having these symptoms of tachycardia upon standing, but I have no other symptoms associated with the heart rate increase other than anxiety and some palpitations. I am trying to get to my doctor on Tuesday, which is familiar with POTS (my mother talked to him), but he said he would like to do some other tests first. Any help would be greatly appreciated. It just seems that being a 24 year old male with a sudden onset of these symptoms would be fairly rare for it to be POTS from what information I have gathered. Also, without any dramatic changed in BP that wouldn't be considered normal fluctuations upon sitting and standing doesn't really seem to make sense to me. I have found myself constantly checking my heart rate and BP with my home checker. One last thing, it seems that the worse of the symptoms are when I wake up, and the longer I stay up, the lower my RHH gets. When I have been up for 12-14 hours, my RHH will be in the mid 50's low 60's. Even with the lower RHH's the standing will still raise it 30-40, but it won't get in tachycardia ranges. Only in the morning when my RHH is higher will my heart rate get in the 110-130's with standing. Thanks for reading and hopefully I can get some answers.