A few weeks later we were at a family bbq. I tried to pretend I felt fine though when you feel like your spinning it's quite the task. I told my husband I didn't want to talk about any of it. It was too embarrassing knowing that I was perfectly fine but felt absolutely horrible inside. Against me he went to his uncle that is a doctor and told him the story. Immediately he says it sounds like POTS. Of course he couldn't give me a true diagnosis without seeing any of my tests but told me to look into it and follow up with a cardiologist. For the first time in weeks I felt like someone in the medical field wasn't looking at me like I had lost my mind. That night I went right to the internet and looked up
POTS. Everything made sense the years of dizziness, the passing out. It was all right in front of me and it finally had a name. It would take me another two weeks to get into a cardiologist but as soon as I did the puzzle that had been my life for so long slowly began to take shape. All I needed was a test called a tilt table test and we would finally know if I had my answer.

The day came I was strapped to a table with an iv in my arm, blood pressure cuff on my other arm, and heart monitor stuck to my chest. How bad could this really be I thought. I'm just strapped here they will tilt me up I'll stay that way a little bit and bam I'll know what's wrong. They slowly tilted the table so I was standing up and instantly the dizziness poured in. Nothing quite like being strapped down and feeling like your going to pass out. I could hear them saying my heart rate across the room "starting fifty-eight" "she shot right up to one-hundred-twenty" After stage one of the test they gave me a shot of adrenaline to see how my body reacts to being stressed. Instantly I was back in the hospital bed after I had my first son. The same feeling my feet and hands went numb I was going to pass out. The nurse rushed over quickly taking my blood pressure before lowering the bed. "Fifty over forty and dropping."

It took a few minutes to regain my composure but when I did I got my answer. Postural orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome and Neurocardiogenic Syncope.