Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional. I can only speak to my own experience and hope that gives you some insight into what POTS is and how it can affect you or the people around you.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n What it feels like:<\/strong> Being tired all the time, minimal deep sleep when sleeping or having trouble sleeping and staying asleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pain can be a major factor, there are many nights I cannot go to bed when I want due to a headache or stomach ache or some other ailment. Restless leg syndrome is common with POTS, as is anxiety and depression which can all cause sleep issues.They do not know what causes poor quality sleep when it comes to POTS. For the most part this is what I suffer from, I can sleep 48 hours straight and could still go back to bed the second I get up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nothing has been found to work as far as I can tell. I do think I sleep better when I\u2019ve done more throughout the day and I got a new mattress, I slept much better after that. To be honest this made sense when I started to read up on it but I had never thought about it before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cInsomnia & POTS: Can POTS Cause Sleeping Problems? \u2022 MyHeart.\u201d MyHeart<\/em>, https:\/\/myheart.net\/pots-syndrome\/insomnia-sleeping-problems\/<\/a>. Accessed 2 April 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nicholson, Lorna, and Helen Eftekhari. \u201cImportant Lifestyle Changes: Sleep.\u201d PoTS UK<\/em>, https:\/\/www.potsuk.org\/managingpots\/sleep\/<\/a>. Accessed 2 April 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSleep Disturbances and Autonomic Dysfunction in Patients with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome.\u201d NCBI<\/em>, 7 July 2014, https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4083342\/<\/a>. Accessed 2 April 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhat causes it:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Solutions I\u2019ve found:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Further Reading<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
How do you sleep at night? Any tricks?<\/h4>\n\n\n\t
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