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I was told they dont from many specialists. Has anyone here recovered?

My main worry is Preeclampsia. If I do in fact have something wrong with my ANS would it likely lead to pre-e or do you think its completely isolated? Maybe some info on pregnancy and pots would help...I cant seem to find much though esp. the hyper form.

yes, but now on the meds I feel a bit better. I was getting extremely nasueated, felt the urge to go pee as soon as i stood up, saw floaters, head pressure, vomiting, out of breath, extreme anxiety, dizzy, crying...it was the most horrible ive ever felt!

Thank you very much

also while on the valium, I suffered from bradycardia, dizziness, out of breath, etc. which I saw a cardio for in 2011, and he told me that I needed to come off the benzos and things will return to normal, nothing wrong with my heart.

Hi thanks for having me here. Long story short I came off Valium cold turkey in april 2012 and became pregnant in jan. of this year. I am still have some residual wd affects 14 months later..In my 8th/9th week of pregnancy my bp started to spike and doctors asked me if I have hypertension or what not and I told them no of course not bp was 115/75 last appt. and has always been my whole life. So around 13 weeks I came in for another appt bp still high 140s/90s. I decided to invest in a BP machine and monitor at home. Well I started noticing a trend.. my bp would be 100/60 in supine position, 120/85ish sitting and 150/95 standing along with a heart rate increase of 30-40 bpm with any form of standing/exertion. Over the next couple weeks after seeing about 6 doctors all of them telling me its anxiety, in my head etc. my bp was getting worse and worse, with a 170/120 bp finally admitting me to the hospital. During my stay, I was given 100 mg of labetalol 2x per day which helped keep the swings lower, I also did a 24 hour urine to get a baseline for pre-eclampsia which came back at 70 (very good). After the hospital stay, I came home and over the next week started feeling better than ever and BPs ranging from 110s/70s to 120s/80s. After about a month my bp has kinda been resisting the meds and Ive been getting 130s/high 80s/90s still not as bad but enough to make me feel like pure **** at times. I am 24 weeks now and am looking for some insight/support. Anyone here gone through something similar? Does this sound like hyperpots? I saw a cardio 2 weeks ago and my bp decided to stay "nice" at 120/70 so he told me nothings wrong u have no dysautonomia, dysautonomia is only for type 1 diabetics, blah blah blah. To say the least it didnt go very well and Ill be seeing a neurologist on the 17th. If anyone has any success stories/info with a similar situation (spiking bp, meds, pregnancy, etc) please let me know and thanks again for having me here, I look forward to getting to know some of you!!