jennymac

I am just finding out about all the symptoms of POTS and wondering if all those years of heavy sweats, migraines, and lightheadedness (that I thought was low blood sugar) were really POTS- anyone else get migraines and what does anyone know of the relationship?

SO it all started about 4 weeks ago, which strangely coincided with going off birth control pills (after 10 years). Was having near-fainting episodes once a day...catching them by sitting down, and then had a huge episode a week and a half ago where my boss took me to the ER (generalized weakness, dizziness, lightheaded, faint feeling, blurry vision)- of course all vitals normal. All routine bloodwork normal. Have seen 2 general medicine docs, a neurologist and a cardiologist, who mentioned POTS- due to my flushing, lightheadedness, blood pressure maintenance and increased heart rate. Still need to do more bloodwork to figure out maybe what is causing this...He had me go back on the pill to "rule that out"- it isn't helping, of course. We were starting to try for a baby when this all started- has anyone heard of anyone having POTS start after birth control pill termination?