Finally diagnosed after telling a doctor covering for my GP about it
For the past year I’ve been mentioning my symptoms to my regular doctor and his response was always that there were no specialists in my area and that I just needed to eat more salt and change my diet.
Last week I had an appointment (for something unrelated) that was supposed to be with my regular GP but he wasn’t available so I talked with another doctor who was covering for him. I offhandedly mentioned that I was concerned about having POTS and she immediately gave me multiple options for specialists she could refer me to, all of which had waitlists of less than a week.
I saw a POTS specialist yesterday and it took one appointment of simply asking about my symptoms and checking my blood pressure/heart rate to get a diagnosis.
I have no idea why after a year of trying to get my GP to do something it took less than a week to get a diagnosis, or why I had to talk to a completely different doctor, or why my GP told me there were no specialists when there were actually multiple????
Im so confused but at least I know whats going on with my body now so thats good I suppose 🙃