1. You need to pee every 5 minutes...
"Drink your weight in water" they said, "it will make you feel better" they said.... Seriously, nothing makes me feel like a pregnant lady than having to wake up to pee a couple times a night. Keeping my blood volume up is good I suppose, I just wish it didn't leave me running to the bathroom all the time.
2. You feel utterly and completely exhausted...
They say just sitting around is like running a marathon while you're growing a baby, and as it would happen, they say the same about having POTS and being upright. Apparently all that tachycardia really takes it out of ya!
3. You LOOK 6 months pregnant...
4. You feel nauseous...
You feel sick when you wake up... and a lot of the rest of the time too. Morning sickness?? Why no, just another effect of that dysfunctional autonomic nervous system.
5. You feel dizzy and lightheaded...
When you're pregnant, the changes in blood volume and compression of blood vessels can leave you feeling dizzy and lightheaded, or even make you pass out... Which is, of course, just par for the course when you're a Potsie :)
Now if only POTS had some kind of awesome end result for all the suffering!
"Drink your weight in water" they said, "it will make you feel better" they said.... Seriously, nothing makes me feel like a pregnant lady than having to wake up to pee a couple times a night. Keeping my blood volume up is good I suppose, I just wish it didn't leave me running to the bathroom all the time.
2. You feel utterly and completely exhausted...
They say just sitting around is like running a marathon while you're growing a baby, and as it would happen, they say the same about having POTS and being upright. Apparently all that tachycardia really takes it out of ya!
3. You LOOK 6 months pregnant...
Personally, I think there is nothing cuter than a nice little baby bump... unless of course you're not pregnant. Since your body can't seem to figure out how to make your insides function properly, eating anything just leaves you with a loverly little bloat belly.
You feel sick when you wake up... and a lot of the rest of the time too. Morning sickness?? Why no, just another effect of that dysfunctional autonomic nervous system.
5. You feel dizzy and lightheaded...
When you're pregnant, the changes in blood volume and compression of blood vessels can leave you feeling dizzy and lightheaded, or even make you pass out... Which is, of course, just par for the course when you're a Potsie :)
Now if only POTS had some kind of awesome end result for all the suffering!
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