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Vasodepressor Syncope

He says that I never had POTS. That people with POTS don’t have a drop in blood pressure and don’t faint. I was fainting a couple of times a day. My heart rate did go up quite a bit in the first TTT and while it still did go up in the second one it wasn’t as drastic. He is actually not my PCP he is a specialists in POTS from Duke who I saw after my second TTT. However my PCP now agrees with his diagnosis and is putting that I don’t have POTS on a lot of my paperwork.

I’m very upset. My current PCP no longer thinks I have pots due to my change in blood pressure. Apparently pots is only a change in heart rate and not blood pressure as well. Also a second tilt table test was done and the results were inconclusive. The thing is, that I was on IV fluids continuously for a couple of days leading up to it and I had been on medication to try to help my condition for a month. The second tilt table test was done a month or two after the first. Is it right for me to be upset and think that all the doctors shouldn’t only be going off of only the second tilt table test? I am now diagnosed as having vasodepressor syncope, but isn’t that kind of the same thing as pots?