Showing posts with label digestion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label digestion. Show all posts

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Cooking With POTS

I made this post on my other health blog back in June 2010 and thought it was appropriate to repost on my new POTS blog.  Enjoy!

This isn't about cooking with cooking pots, but with POTS (Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome).  I thought this would be a fun considering the lovely pun!


Cooking with POTS is about as difficult for me as what a healthy person would equate to running 5 miles. Getting the pots out of the cabinets takes so much effort. GOD forbid something is still dirty from the last meal and I have to rewash it.  I slowly stand up from the squatting position and walk over to the sink to fill it with water. Once that pot gets heavy, my arms just want to stop holding it because my heart doesn't appreciate this extra effort, so I rest it on the metal lip of the sink. Phew, that makes it a little easier.

Friday, February 25, 2011

Stop Attributing Every Symptom to POTS!

When you finally get a POTS diagnosis, it really does not mean anything. Sure it is nice to have a label to tell your friends and family, but you still have no idea what is really wrong. POTS is only a syndrome. By definition, syndromes are only a collection of SYMPTOMS that occur together.