I’m afraid I can’t source this to a specific lecture, but Dr Satish Raj, when talking about TTT studies, mentioned that POTS patients feel unwell...
Conversely, people who have done it before and suspect that they are going to feel quite unwell could also have a raised heart rate.
I’ve heard several autonomic specialists say that thet are not happy with the 30 (or 40) BPM threshold. It may be that eventually cerebral blood...
Dr Satish Raj (and others) found abnormalities in the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system (RAAS) in POTS patients. It has been called the...
Nimodipine (calcium channel blocker) has been thought to increase cerebral blood flow by being selective for dilating cerebral blood vessels....
On measuring blood volume: There is a recently accredited medical device that can measure total blood volume quickly and easily:...
Here’s a couple of studies on compression garments that might be of interest: Compression Stockings Improve Cardiac Output and Cerebral Blood...
And I suppose the question to answer is: Is there not enough blood getting to the head, due to low blood volume, blood pooling in the lower body,...
With 91% of patients in the study showing reduced cerebral blood flow, it seems that it would be worthwhile for everyone with ME/CFS to carefully...
My daughter was an editor before becoming too sick to work. She noticed when doing psychological and health questionnaires that some questions did...
@Jonathan Edwards, you are right, I don't think there is any evidence suggesting that strengthening leg muscles will improve muscle pump function...
I don't know whether it is a good study design or not, but Dr Satish Raj is doing this one:...
Dr Peter Novak calls them "orthostatic syndromes". This would be better as "orthostatic intolerance syndromes" in my opinion. I don't know whether...
I have heard several autonomic specialists say that autonomic neuropathy is the most common form of dysautonomia. (They might in fact specify...
I have read that this study from 1986 is now considered to be an early POTS study too, except they didn't call it POTS. Idiopathic hypovolemia...
I remember hearing Satish Raj talk about how the 30bpm cut-off was decided ... unfortunately I cannot remember what he said about it. He did say...
Old sub-editor here: "Postural orthostatic" could be considered a tautology because orthostasis (the state of being upright) is a type of...
@Nightsong, many thanks for filling in those gaps for me.
I wonder whether it's possible to calculate the money that could be saved by listening carefully early on. Another patient in the story says that...
I feel that GPs sometimes don't listen to the degree of severity of a patient's problems. E.g. In this story, the GP seems to have heard "aches...
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