starshine

Thank you for the advice! I will definitely search around and look into sleep restriction. I appreciate it immensely. Thankfully I did finally get some sleep last night, at least.

Hello, everyone! I'm new here. I just got diagnosed with POTS back in January, but I've probably been dealing with it since at least 2019. Things took a turn for the worst when I finally got my diagnosis, and I've been barely able to walk around my house and occasionally run errands. I'm already on a beta blocker (propranolol), and it's definitely helping. Without it, I would be bedridden. However, I can definitely tell when it wears off. I've tried my best to integrate other changes to manage my symptoms, but I was already dealing with other disabilities before my POTS got 1000x worse. So, it's been hard.

Now, it's been making it impossible for me to sleep. Seriously, I'm writing this on less than a full hour of sleep in the last 36 hours. I feel exhausted, but it doesn't matter. I either can't fall asleep, or I can't stay asleep. I get woken up by an elevated heartrate or some other POTS symptom. I've always had issues falling asleep (though not nearly to this extent). But ever since I was a kid, I was capable of sleeping through the apocalypse after I actually fell asleep...until now, obviously. So this is completely abnormal for me.

As you can imagine, the lack of rest is exacerbating my already pretty severe symptoms, so I would greatly appreciate any advice that y'all might have!