@chronic.kaleigh: POTS *can* cause deconditioning though. Just not the other way around. #pots #posturalorthostatictachycardiasyndrome #potssyndrome #potsawareness #chronicillness
I get 10K+ steps a day & I stand 8-12 hours a day and still have all of my pots symptoms. Hearing people who have experienced this try to say that Pots is only because of deconditioning has been a punch in the gut to everyone (including me) who has been formally diagnosed and have to deal with the symptoms no matter what they do
2026-10-06 17:41:50
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Blip :
idk I only started to get pots symptoms after I went through deconditioning
2026-10-05 23:59:59
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Ⓐ✊꧁𖤐🦌🥀🎙️strid➵er🎙️🥀🦌𖤐꧂ :
but pots is a syndrome meaning it is a collection of symptoms with no one cause so how would that not still be pots? most (in my opinion all) pots is secondary to something else, curable or otherwise.
. I say all in parentheses because I am not a scientist so I understand I could well be wrong and if someone has information on that I would like to know about it.
2026-10-06 16:46:02
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Not your mom’s milf :
I was serving tables in 98° degree weather for up to 15hrs at a time, weight-lifting 3x a week and have the same symptoms now that I did then. Actually, attempting to recondition made my symptoms WORSE 🤡
2026-10-05 23:31:43
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Dr. Crust :
we have studies that demonstrate exercise therapy as superior to pharmacologic 1st line agents like propranolol, and we also have studies that demonstrate statistically and clinically significant remission with exercise therapy; granted things are never black and white, not everyone will respond to treatment, but that does not invalidate exercise therapy as a cornerstone of POTS management.
2026-10-06 01:16:44
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EJ :
I really hate this word
2026-10-08 12:42:37
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dr.mc.im :
Untrue. What medical degree do you hold? What qualifies you to educate strangers online on how to diagnose medical conditions?
2026-10-06 15:34:24
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Lydia :
the only people who say POTS is from deconditioning are people who have never heard of orthostatic intolerance
2026-10-06 01:43:56
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Cutiefulness :
This isn't to say deconditioning doesn't affect POTS, because it definitely can & has worsened symptoms for people, BUT POTS does not go away after reconditioning!!
2026-10-06 19:09:09
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ComradeTerri2 :
Alas, those of us with ME can't recondition because it will make us sicker.
2026-10-06 01:41:36
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Evren :
Ppl don’t understand that just bc deconditioning can make POTS symptoms more pronounced doesn’t mean that’s the CAUSE. And also sometimes deconditioning is just unavoidable! It’s not some moral failure you have to correct. It happens. Everyone is always a measly 1-2 weeks of being somewhat more sedentary away from deconditioning. If you get sick, or have to recover from a surgery, or even just are less active over a holiday break, your body will decondition. For most people this means they’ll have slightly less energy, not that they’ll start having POTS symptoms out of nowhere.
2026-10-06 02:07:11
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miyagimaple :
I kind of wish a POTS diagnosis required a checklist of the other neurological symptoms that come with it and not just an elevated heart rate. I'm so tired of people assuming it's just dizziness standing up. Including people who are diagnosed denying the symptoms others have because "they don't have them". Extra points on the checklist don't even have to be mandatory. I just want doctors forced to read them and patients forced to hear them. 😆
2026-10-05 22:53:39
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lexy :
yea I know its POTS because it happened when I was at my healthiest and most active.
2026-10-06 13:17:02
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Amelia :
Idk man I had my first symptoms in pre school getting light headed walking up 2 steps to go out to the playground where I had to sit in the shade because the sun made me feel like I was gonna pass out
2026-10-07 13:17:54
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Cat :
Who is this video even about? Most people who get POTS are not deconditioned. I was a bodybuilder and I still got POTS
2026-10-06 22:31:58
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James :
I had pots when I was doing 7 hours of sport every week and walking 4 miles every day on top of school and work. I still have pots now my other chronic illness has taken away my ability to walk for very long
2026-10-07 16:53:22
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Jasper Gunn :
Oh yes, Katie Ledecky somebody who can beat every other woman by like multiple minutes swimming it’s just deconditioned🙄 I’m pretty sure her times are faster than anyone else in the world.
2026-10-07 01:13:29
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RachaelOdell :
I got my first pots symptoms when I was farming, fencing, going gym every night and riding horses. I had to quit my job cause I kept passing out, can only do exercises where my hands aren’t above my head, and I’ve had to cut riding down as my heart would race at the worst time and my horse would try to deck me lol
2026-10-06 22:49:48
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roovumraank :
you are not their doctor
2026-10-06 04:43:26
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Charla Marie :
I've had POTS since I was a teenager. I've literally passed out during the most active parts of my life (marching band)
2026-10-06 17:20:21
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chloe :
I was pre professional in ballet and had to quit because of dysautonomia 🥀
2026-10-07 20:42:32
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gg⁷ 🇵🇸 :
i’ve been told my pots was caused by deconditioning even though my symptoms begun when i was a dancer and in marching band. i was always at one practice or another or at work. when i did have free time i danced and learned new dances. now i can’t dance without feeling sick/having a flare of symptoms:(
2026-10-06 19:55:42
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🌈Jess 🌟🦓🎨🧵🪡📖📚💻 :
oh yeah. working on my cardio and muscle tone (hEDS and stuff) and still getting the occasional prescyncope after exercising (or just existing honestly) is wild. and it sucks. cant lift anything over like 20 lbs without someone around because passing out is an issue
2026-10-06 02:48:26
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Maya ✈︎ ᯤ 𓈆 1%⚡︎ :
Wait I thought the father of pots said reconditioning is a way to help you learn to exert yourself let me see if I need to rewatch more or write out the sentence
2026-10-06 03:24:05
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Chronically | Hanna✨ :
My pots symptoms started showing up while I was doing volleyball conditioning 4 times a week I had to stop playing
2026-10-06 01:08:50
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