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Hi @Jan, thanks for your answer and for your tips. I was wondering how you got your ssri's and anxiety medications prescribed.

Hi @statesof, thank you for your reply. Depersonalization describes pretty accurately my mental symptoms. Are you taking any medications? Have you found anything that helps?

My doctor did not test the norepinephrine, I will ask him about that as well. Thank you for your answer.

Hi, thank you very much for your input and your kind words. I have never tried neither SSRI nor SNRI, I will look into them. I have never asked about IV fluids and he has never suggested i should take them, I will look into this as well. I was diagnosed with a tilt-table study. I'm curious about which of my symptoms don't sound typical for pots.

Hello everyone, I'm really happy to have found this forum, reading other's stories, experiences and tips really helps. I would like to share my situation and I hope to receive some feedback. I'm a 21 year old male and have been suffering with POTS for four years. Getting the diagnosis was a nightmare, I went to many different doctors, who all thought I was depressed, anxious or fine. Eventually I found a doctor in Switzerland (I'm from Italy) who diagnosed POTS and has helped me ever since. POTS in my case is very episodic and all the episodes last about 10 days. During these 10 days I completely break and cannot do ANYTHING. The worst symptom is the brain fog, my thoughts race randomly, continuously and I don't have any control over them, it's so bad that I can barely speak and listening to anything or anyone is out of the question. Then there is anxiety, which manifests as continuous panic, delusion and sometimes hallucinations (different from normal anxiety). I also struggle with shortness of breath, fatigue and my senses are completely messed up. The episodes start after random physically or mentally stressing events, even though the last one started from just thinking about a stressful event. When I'm not in an episode I suffer from fatigue and I get dizzy if I stand still for even 5 minutes. I also have social anxiety. I am currently taking fludrocortisone and midodrine I have no benefit from salt, high water intake and compression stockings and I feel really bad after drinking alcohol or caffeine. I'm just now coming out of an episode and I'm pretty desperate because when I'm in one, I just want to disappear. I'm so scared of getting another one. I would like to know if there's someone who's POTS is similar to mine. I would also really appreciate it if someone would share what meds they take for the brain fog and the anxiety during episodes. Can anxiety trigger POTS? I'm sorry if this post is too long and if my English is off.