How Long COVID Can Disrupt Sleep Temperature Control and Heart Rate Together
It is not just the fatigue. You could almost manage the fatigue. It is everything around it. Your sleep is a mess. You wake drenched in sweat, or shivering, or with your heart pounding for no reason. Mornings arrive and you feel as though you never rested at all. Then the day brings its own […]
When Post COVID Dizziness Becomes More Than a Recovery Symptom
In the early weeks after COVID, some dizziness is common, and you were probably told not to worry about it. Give it time. It will settle. For many people, that is exactly what happens. But what if it has not settled? What if months have passed and you still feel lightheaded when you stand, still […]
Why Long COVID Patients May Feel Worse After Small Amounts of Activity
A shower should not be exhausting. Neither should standing at the counter to make lunch, or walking to the mailbox, or a single flight of stairs. Before COVID, these were nothing. You did them without a thought. Now they can cost you. A short, ordinary activity is followed by a racing heart, a swimming head, […]
How Post Exertional Malaise and POTS Flares Can Look Similar
You have started to notice two different bad patterns, and you cannot quite tell them apart. Sometimes a hard day is followed, a day or two later, by a heavy crash. Other times the trouble comes within minutes of standing up, with a racing heart and a swimming head. Both leave you exhausted and unwell. […]
Why Pushing Through Long COVID Fatigue Can Make Autonomic Symptoms Worse
You had a slightly better day. The fatigue lifted just enough that you felt almost like yourself. So you did what anyone would do. You caught up. Errands, chores, a longer walk, the things that had been piling up. Then, a day or two later, it hit. Not just tiredness, but a heavy, full-body crash. […]
Why Long COVID Patients May Feel Worse After Small Amounts of Activity
Three years. Five years. For some people, even longer. That is how long it can take to go from the first strange symptoms to a name that finally fits. Dysautonomia. If you are somewhere in that long stretch, the experience is probably familiar. A growing list of symptoms that do not seem to connect. A […]
How Mast Cell Activation Disorder Makes Dysautonomia Harder to Manage
You have been working at your dysautonomia. You track your triggers, you pace yourself, you follow the plan. And still, something keeps slipping. Some days bring sudden flushing, an itchy or hives-like reaction, or a stomach that revolts for no reason you can name. Foods you have always eaten seem to turn on you. A […]
What Small Fiber Neuropathy Has to Do With Your Dysautonomia Diagnosis
Your feet burn at night. Your hands tingle for no clear reason. Patches of your skin feel oversensitive, or strangely numb, or react oddly to heat and cold. Alongside this, you may already be dealing with the dizziness, racing heart, and fatigue of dysautonomia. At some point, a term may have come up, either from […]
How Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and Dysautonomia Overlap in the Same Patient
You have a folder of appointments behind you. A specialist for your joints, which dislocate or ache more than they should. Another for the dizziness and racing heart when you stand. Maybe a third for stomach problems that never quite resolve. Each visit treats its own piece. Yet no one has stepped back to ask […]
How Stress and Adrenaline Worsen POTS Symptoms Over Time
A hard week settles in. A deadline at work, a family worry, a string of poor nights of sleep. And your POTS, which you had been managing reasonably well, suddenly is not managed at all. Your heart races while you are sitting still. You feel wired and shaky. The smallest tasks leave you drained. Then, […]
