10/30/2026
Her doctor took a bedside blood pressure reading, saw her heart rate go up, and said, “Clearly it’s POTS.” She left with a couple of prescriptions.
We told her mom that the faster heart rate could be protecting her. If blood flow to the brain drops, the heart may speed up to make up for it, and medication aimed at the heart rate alone could work against the real problem.
We don’t guess. On our VitalScan tilt table, we track heart rate while a Dolphin 4D transcranial Doppler, an ultrasound of the head, measures blood flow to the brain. Then we keep measuring to see whether her neuro rehab is helping.
If this sounds like your daughter’s story, or your own, send it to someone who should see it.
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