Hi everyone, I was recently diagnosed with POTS then Fibromyalgia. I was on midrodine for a few weeks and saw no improvement. I've been on Ivabradine for the past two days and it seems to be helping. Just trying to make sense of all of these diagnoses. At this point, I feel like which is causing which symptoms? I was first dx with POTS after having a sleep study. The Pulmonologist recommended that I see a cardiologist. After performing the tilt test, I was dx with having POTS. I was put on Midrodine while I was waiting for my shipment of Ivabradine to come in. I didn't think it made an ounce of difference. Hoping the Ivabradine will. As far as the FM, I'm not quite sure that I do have it. After reading about FM and seeing numerous doctors about my pain and chronic fatigue, I decided to see a Rhumetologist about possibly having FM. During that visit, I had a lot of pain and he did the trigger point assessment. He ran some blood work and I made a follow up appointment. At the follow up appointment he said my liver enzymes were elevated and that I had inflammation. I repeated the blood work and am waiting on my results. Then, he said, to quote him, "Yeah... I think you have this... Fibromyalgia thing." He said he wasn't going to do anything about it because I wasn't having pain that day. When I asked about it, he said, "You know, it gets worse with lack of sleep, stress, etc." It felt like such a slap in the face. Like, really? You don't think I know that!? Ugh.... I also told him about having POTS, and he had no clue what it was. At this point... I felt like he was not acknowledging FM as a condition. Almost like it was the answer because nothing else fit. His exact words were "from a rheumatic point of view, you have nothing wrong." Then proceeded to make the Fibromyalgia comment. Like POTS, I understand that no two people are alike and it really is a spectrum that differs day-to-day. I'm really just confused... I feel like I've become the "queen" of acronyms... Then I read all of these people's stories and feel guilty because I know that my pain, ups and downs are no where near theirs... ugh, the empathy... Sorry for such a long post, I just am hoping to connect with other individuals that have gone through this process... it's so isolating sometimes...